Study Abroad Program has scheduled 6 different opportunities to complete courses and travel to exciting destinations during the month of June 2018: England, Japan, Dominican Republic, Austria, and Finland and the Baltics. The study tour to Dominican Republic includes Service Learning. Students may enroll in these study tours right now. Some of the tours include […]
Monthly Archives: October 2017
The WVC Global Citizenship Committee and the entire WVC community is pleased to welcome Dr. Jochen Fried! The WVC Global Citizenship Committee has had a relationship with Dr. Jochen Fried, President/CEO of the Global Citizenship Alliance, since 2010 when he visited WVC with Dr. Bill Reckmeyer, Professor of Leadership and Systems in the Department of […]
After almost two years of planning, Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and Faculty Director for the Center for the Transformation of Schools at UCLA, Dr. Pedro Noguera will deliver a lecture at WVC. His talk is titled bf///r/eew Dr. Noguera’s visit was initially organized by the late Herlisa […]
The West Valley College Study Abroad Program started officially during spring 2017, after the WVMCCD Land Corporation and the Office of the WVC President responded positively to Drs. Dulce María Gray and Anna Brichko’s proposal to create an official viable and cohesive study abroad program for the college. The Land Corporation and Office of the […]
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” Maya Angelou, American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. During summer 2017, WVC’s Study Abroad Program celebrated a robust inaugural […]