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Vision, Values, Mission & GoalsVISIONVictor Valley Community College uplifts the diversecommunities we teach and serve by promoting educationalexcellence, enhancing local prosperity, and ensuringenvironmental leadership.VALUESAs a student-centered learning organization, we will uphold thefollowing core values:Excellence - providing superior service andeducational learning opportunitiesIntegrity - guiding the college’s actions with aninternally consistent framework of principlesAccessibility - facilitating access to the college’sprograms from other locationsDiversity - valuing different points of view andGOALSThe goals of Victor Valley Community College are to:create sustainability and environmental stewardship for ourcolleagues, our students, and our community.become an agile learning organization consistent with theneeds of students and the communities that thecollege serves.offer educational programs that lead to meaningful andmeasurable student learning and success through seamlesstransfer opportunities to colleges, universities, and careers.increase the number of students served through recruitment,persistence, and retention strategies.provide affordable and attractive options for members of thecommunity seeking a post secondary education,which includes an environment in which diversity thrives.develop and deliver enriching courses for communitymembers and businesses seeking additional training anddevelopment.contributions of allCollaboration - encouraging recursive interaction ofknowledge experience and mutual learning of peoplewho are working together toward a common creativegoalInnovation - providing creative approaches tolearning problem solving and growthMISSIONRICH HISTORYVictor Valley Community College is one 109 communitycolleges in California that are attended by 10 percent of allstudents in the United States. For more than 45 years, thecollege has served students from the High Desert, across thecountry, and around the world. The same pioneering spirit thatbrought people to this region of the country, drove localresidents to move the college forward from a shared idea to aburgeoning reality.The mission of Victor Valley Community College is to:Cultivate - intellectual growth, social responsibility,environmental stewardship, cultural enrichment, andeconomic development.Create - exceptional and accessible lifelong learningopportunities that afford students within our expandingcommunities the attainment of knowledge and skillsnecessary for success in the global economy.Embrace - difference in our communities byintegrating their wealth of multicultural knowledge andwisdom into a cohesive and resourceful learningenvironment for all.Inspire - innovative teaching and service withimaginative uses of collaboration and technology,fostering vibrant programs that are measurablyeffective in addressing student learning andcommunity needs.Empower - each student to learn by modelingacademic integrity, democratic citizenship, andmeaningful contribution to society.6Victor Valley Community College serves one of the largestgeographical areas in the state. The area was first inhabitatedby several Native American tribes. Spanish missionariesfollowed and established Ranchos throughout the region. Later,pioneers moved through the area from Utah and other northernoutposts on their way to establish settlements in what laterbecame known as Southern California.The first nonindigenous people to reside in the Victorville area weremerchants who built trading posts to provide provisions for goldminers, railroaders, farmers and ranchers that included staplessuch as ammunition, tools, mining equipment, food stock,horses, pack animals, postal service, and other necessities.Commerce grew over time and a community began to form.The first town was called Oro Grande and then came Victorvillefollowed by Hesperia, Apple Valley and Adelanto.Thepopulation of the area soon reached 60,000 people. It was atthis time that local residents decided to bring higher educationto the valley.The Victor Valley Community College District was created by avote of the public in 1960, when residents enthusiasticallyapproved the creation of a new community college district forthe benefit of local residents.2008-2010 Victor Valley College Catalog

Classes began in the fall of 1961 on the campus of the onlyhigh school in the region, Victor Valley High School. Originally,the college served a little over 600 students and employed atotal of 15 faculty and staff. Construction began on the presentcampus in 1963 on land that was once a sprawling 230-acreranch. Six buildings opened to students in 1965 and thelandscape didn’t change until an expanded technical complexwas completed in 1979. This facility was followed by thePerforming Arts Center that began operations in 1981.Next,a building dedicated to Allied Health studies opened in1983. In 1988, the Student Services Building was added to thecampus complex.In the 90’s the campus grew with additions of: Gymnasium,Science, Library, Construction Technology, Student ActivitiesCenter, and Child Development Center. Student populationalso increased from 6,000 to approximately 9,500 during thisperiod.Most recently, the college opened the doors for two projectsthat included a 51,682 square foot Technology Center and the28,156 square foot Speech/Drama Addition to the PerformingArts Center.The Technology Center offers High Desert students a facilitythat contains a large open computer lab (mall), five smallercomputer labs, three large class labs, four medium size classlabs, and four smaller class labs. It houses 26 faculty and staffoffices, a Management Information Systems office meetingroom, and a server room. Almost all of the computerizedtraining conducted on campus is located within this building.Digital Art, Writing labs, Computer Education classes and otherrelated training are some of the programs which have beenrelocated to this building.The Speech/Drama Addition to the Performing Arts Centerfeaures an experimental theater, a new scene shop, a rehearsallab, a makeup lab, a costume lab, a lighting lab, a design lab,four speech labs, a large speech lab and an opencommunications lab.The latest project under construction is the 7 million AdaptedPhysical Education Building. This building will provide thecollege with dance and adapted PE facilities, open courtyard forpresentations and performances, offices and showers. Thisfacility, when completed, will enhance the college’s ability tooffer programs for a traditionally underserved segment of theHigh Desert population.Today the college serves more than 11,000 students. It doesn’tstop there. The college is expected to grow, enhance programsand services, and expand within its service area to meet theoverall demand of our communities. Victor Valley College is adynamic institution of higher learning and our history is stillbeing written.2008-2010 Victor Valley College CatalogBOARD OF TRUSTEESElected by the voters of the community, the Victor ValleyCommunity College District Board of Trustees is the governingbody of the college.The Board of Trustees sets overall standards and academicpolicies for the college and guides the development of collegeprograms and policies.Policies set by the board are implemented on a day-to-daybasis by the superintendent/president of the district and a welltrained group of administrators, faculty, and staff on behalf ofthe trustees.Many Victor Valley College students transfer to four-yearcolleges and universities, and the Board of Trustees designsthose educational programs in conjunction with the entirenetwork of community colleges and universities in California.The Victor Valley Community College District Board of Trusteesalso works closely with local community and business leadersto establish programs which will benefit the community at large.These and other initiatives are parts of the Integrated Planmandated by the Board.Working with employers within the Victor Valley area, the Boardof Trustees has approved a number of programs to trainstudents for specific jobs. With these technical programs, theBoard of Trustees aims to help provide greater vocationalopportunities within the Victor Valley area.The Victor Valley Community College District Board of Trusteesis under the advisory supervision of the California Board ofGovernors, which oversees higher education in California.The Board of Trustees is responsible for budgeting fundsreceived from state and local districts for the benefit of thecollege and its student body.CAMPUS CULTURE ANDCLIMATEAt Victor Valley College there is one constant upon whicheverything is based: The student is always first! This is true inall stages of planning and implementation. This includes thepreparation of the college’s budget, program development, andall services offered to the student. It is basic to our success andthe success of our students.According to Terrence E. Deal and Allen A. Kennedy, inCorporate Culture (1982, ch. 1), “A strong culture is a system ofinformal rules that spells out how people are to behave most ofthe time.” Climate, on the other hand, is the informal day-to-daybehavior, with its underlying attitudes, beliefs, and values, ofmembers of the organization. Climate is not visual, but it is thefeel, tone, atmosphere, and internal characteristics of theinstitution. Accordingly, Victor Valley College will seek toenhance its supportive organizational culture and climate by7

continuous implementation of all elements of a well definedplan. We will:ADMINISTRATION motivate all members of the college community to do theirbest.Dr. Robert Silverman, Superintendent/PresidentDr. Christopher O’Hearn, Deputy Superintendent/Executive Vice President, Instruction/Student ServicesFusako Yokotobi, Vice President, Human ResourcesDr. Victoria Hindes, Executive Dean, Student ServicesVirginia Moran, Executive Dean, Institutional EffectivenessJeffrey Holmes, Interim Dean, Student Workforce DevelopmentDr. E. Paul Williams, Dean, Humanities & Social SciencesDr. Lori Kildal, Academic Dean, STEMDr. Pat Luther, Dean, Health Sciences & Public Safety recognize that tone and expectation, in essence climate andculture, are at the CEO level. foster the development and support the success of anincreasingly diverse student population. encourage a quality-focused paradigm characterized byembracing institutional effectiveness, measuring studentsuccess, and creating innovative yet relevant educationalprograms and services. build cooperation and trust and create cross-cultural teamscapable of meeting the political and educational demands foreffectiveness and quality. develop leaders who are self-confident, group-oriented,facilitative of change, catalytic toward quality, andpersuasive with all external and internal constituencies.The administration of Victor Valley College implements thepolicies and direction set by the Victor Valley CommunityCollege District Board of Trustees.Under the direction of the superintendent/president, theadministration of Victor Valley College keeps the collegerunning smoothly on a day-to-day basis.WHAT WE OFFER destroy the illusion that constituent groups are separate,unrelated, and often competing forces. provide leadership that will guide activities resulting inappropriate change. promote continuous development of administration, faculty,and staff to provide programs and services of quality andexcellence. encourage decision-making to be decentralized, management to be participative, and governance to be shared. advocate a college-wide problem-solving attitude desirous ofinstitutional excellence and a quality college for the 21stcentury. acknowledge that learning and work can and should be funand satisfying. thrive on effective communications, vertically and laterally,formally and informally, throughout the organization and inthe community. reward and respect quality, excellence, and success,constantly and continuously seek institutional renewal andimprovement.Adult/Continuing EducationVictor Valley College maintains a program of Adult/ContinuingEducation which offers a variety of day and evening classes aswell as so

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