Workforce Programs



Valencia Trustees to Ask State to Approve Campus in Poinciana

Orlando, FL – Valencia College’s board of trustees on Tuesday took the first step toward creating a campus in Poinciana [...]


Valencia Architecture Grad Heading to NY’s Cooper Union Institute

Valencia architecture student Evan Shirley has always had an artist’s eye – and that has landed him in some prestigious [...]


Valencia, UCF Team Up to Offer Biomedical Sciences Degree at Osceola Campus

Starting in August, Valencia College and the UCF College of Medicine will offer a combined 2+2 program that will allow [...]


Orlando Business Journal Honors Valencia College CIO Bill White

Bill White, vice president and chief information officer at Valencia College, recently received the Orlando Business Journal’s C-Level Award in [...]


Valencia’s Nasser Hedayat on How Students Can Pursue STEM Careers

Did you know that half of all jobs in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) don’t require a bachelor’s [...]


Valencia Trustees Approve 2013-14 Budget, No Tuition Increase

The Valencia College Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $164.8 million budget for the 2013-2014 school year at its June [...]


Engineering Graduate Lands Job, Becomes First Hired by Industry

Engineers like to say they make the world go round. Valencia senior Jacob Heck, who is finishing his senior design [...]


Valencia Offers One-Day Sessions to Help Fill out Financial Aid Forms

Although fall classes begin in a few months, it’s not too late to apply for financial aid. But to be [...]


Laid-Off Worker Turns Misfortune Into Opportunity, Earns Degree

In the late 1990s, Nathan Maurer was working in the clean room at Lucent Technologies, making microchips—a job that ignited [...]


Graduate Earns Bachelor’s Degree to Improve Her Job Prospects

When Zenia Rivera graduated from a private Orlando college with an associate degree in nuclear medicine technology in 2008, she [...]