“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” John Hope Franklin, American historian On Monday 18 June, nine students and their WVC Study Abroad Program Faculty Leader, Victor Castillo (a faculty member in Administration of Justice in […]
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” Seneca Lou De La Rosa, the Director of Choral and Vocal Studies at WVC, and the Chair of the Department of Music and Dance in WVC’ s Cilker School of Art and Design, collaborated with Jeffrey Benson, the Director of Choral Activities at San José State […]
Sixteen students and their Faculty Advisor, Dr. Tim Kelly, are attending the Global Citizenship Alliance‘s Global Citizenship Seminar for students in June 2018. Follow their adventures in this extended entry as Dr. Tim Kelly and the students detail their observations. The students are Hannah Curley, Savannah Marez, Mahdis Gheibi, Rafael Alva, Aaron Minkoff, Mitch Brown, Anahita Said, […]
WEST VALLEY – MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING AGENDA at WEST VALLEY COLLEGE MAY 1, 2018 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Anne Kepner ∙ President Susan Fish Vice President Adrienne Grey ∙ Randi Kinman Jack Lucas Robert Owens Karl Watanabe Lani Yoshimoto ∙ MC Student Trustee Mikela Lazari ∙ WVC Student Trustee Patrick Schmitt ∙ Chancellor SUBJECT: […]
On Saturday 7 April 2018 the Acting Chair of the WVC Global Citizenship Committee, Dr. Tim Kelly, and current GCC member, Dr. Dulce María Gray, and Co-Chair of the WVC Sustainability Committee, Brad Chin, brought handouts for the forthcoming 7th Annual GC Conference: The Faces of Genocide, 6th Annual Earth Stewardship Symposium, and crocheting materials […]
The WVC Study Abroad Program completed the process of awarding all Global Citizenship Study Abroad Program student scholarships for 2018. SAP worked with the Scholarship Committee and Advancement Office to process a total of 85 applications. A total of 45 students were awarded full or partial scholarships. These 45 very diverse students represent a multitude of majors and […]
“The gravest security threat of our time is the danger of a nuclear weapon being detonated in one of our cities.” William J. Perry in My Journey at the Nuclear Brink On 16 March 2018 the Stanford University Global Studies Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) held […]
Each year, WVC celebrates Persian New Year with traditional music, dancing, food, tea and a haft-seen (a collection of seven items that symbolize hope for the new year: sprout or grass, dried sweet fruit, sweet pudding, apples, garlic, vinegar and sumac, a Persian spice made from crushed sour red berries0. It’s a celebration of spring […]
Behindokht Noormanesh, an integral member of the team that makes WVC’s Study Abroad Program possible, works at WVC as a Financial Aide Specialist. Among many of her duties, she processes all of the scholarship applications that students submit, and sits on the Scholarship Committees that review the applications and award the scholarships. In January 2018, […]
“EF Tour’s International Training Tour in Barcelona was an invaluable resource for understanding my role as an educator on a study abroad trip. The entire weekend I was surrounded by caring, knowledgeable people who genuinely believe in the transformative power of travel for students.” Nils Michals, MFA, WVC English Department WVC Study Abroad Program has scheduled four study […]
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