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Update: Erika Weakens, So It’s Back to School Next Week

Noon Sunday Update: With Erika downgraded from a tropical storm, Valencia College will be open next week and fall classes [...]


Valencia College Featured on PBS NewsHour for Efforts to Help Low-Income Students Finish College

Valencia College is one of five cutting-edge colleges and universities that was featured in an August special  on “PBS NewsHour,” [...]


Summer Institute Plants the Seeds for Students Interested in STEM Majors

“Who wants to be a planet?” When Valencia College physics professor Richard Jerousek posed that question to a handful of [...]


Valencia to Display Professor’s Digital Artwork in East Campus Gallery

ORLANDO – Valencia College will host an exhibition of digital artwork by digital media professor Rob McCaffrey Aug. 14 through [...]


Valencia’s West Campus to Hold Emergency Preparedness Exercise

Orlando – More than a hundred Central Florida first responders and emergency personnel will practice a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise [...]


Valencia Engineering Students Test Parachute Designs at NASA

Kiara Rodriguez and her Valencia College engineering classmates spent much of the summer on a mission – one handed to [...]


Valencia Grad Lands Prestigious Scholarship to University of Oxford

When Laura Puentes was in high school, this smart daughter of working-class immigrant parents set her sights on a college [...]


Sen. Soto, Rep. La Rosa Announce $11.9 Million for Poinciana Campus

KISSIMMEE, FL – While crafting Florida’s $79 billion budget for the coming year, state legislative leaders carved out $11.9 million [...]


Valencia Summer Dance Concert Set for July 10-11 on East Campus

Orlando, FL – Valencia College will hold its 15th annual Valencia Dance Summer Repertory Concert on July 10 and 11 [...]


Valencia Sends More Orange County High School Graduates to College

ORLANDO – On Tuesday, June 9, Valencia College held a ceremony to recognize and celebrate Orange County Take Stock in [...]