ABOUT OUR CAMPUS
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VISION
Victor Valley College uplifts the diverse communities we teach and serve by promoting educational excellence, enhancing local prosperity, and ensuring environmental leadership.
As a student-centered learning organization, we will uphold the following core values: Excellence – providing superior service and educational opportunities Integrity – guiding the college’s actions with an internally consistent framework of principles Accessibility – facilitating access to the college’s programs from other locations Diversity – valuing different points of view and contributions of all Collaboration – encouraging recursive interaction of knowledge experience and mutual learning of people who are working together toward a common creative goal
Innovation – providing creative approaches to problem solving and growth
Our mission is to: Cultivate intellectual growth, social responsibility, environmental stewardship, cultural enrichment, and economic development. Create exceptional and accessible lifelong learning opportunities that afford students within our expanding communities the attainment of knowledge and skills necessary for success in the global economy. Embrace difference in our communities by integrating their wealth of multicultural knowledge and wisdom into a cohesive and resourceful learning environment for all. Inspire innovative teaching and service with imaginative uses of collaboration and technology, fostering vibrant programs that are measurably effective in addressing student learning and community needs. Empower each student to learn by modeling academic integrity, democratic citizenship, and meaningful contribution to society.
Simply put, at Victor Valley College everything is based on one primary foundation: "The Student Is Always First!"
THE COMMUNITY AND THE DISTRICT
The average temperature in the Victor Valley is 75 degrees, and the average day is sunny with clear blue skies. The College is surrounded on all sides by the beauty of mountains and rock-strewn western hills. Nearby, residents and visitors can experience mountain skiing during the season, water activities in several beautiful lakes, and the vast desert's multitude of recreational opportunities. The area is a short distance from the ocean, other Southern California attractions, and the city of Las Vegas.
The Victor Valley is also a vibrant new frontier of economic development, abundant and affordable housing, job opportunities, and expansive growth. With its close ties to the community, Victor Valley College serves as the educational center of the area. |
Victor Valley College has earned its reputation for academic leadership, educational excellence and innovation through hard work and dedication to student success. The secret of its success can be found in its award-winning faculty, dedicated and friendly staff, superior curriculum, nationally recognized occupational programs, and outstanding student services and special programs.
Victor Valley College is located in the High Desert region of Southern California in the Victor Valley on the north side of the San Gabriel Mountains. It is centrally located near the two major cities and one large town it serves – Victorville, Hesperia, and the Town of Apple Valley. The District also includes the towns of Phelan, Lucerne Valley, Adelanto and Wrightwood.
