Victor Valley College

Victor Valley College (VVC)

Motto	Educating Generations, Building Communities
Type	Public, community college
Established	1961
President	Roger Wagner
Administrative staff	803
Students	11,504 (2013)
Address	18422 Bear Valley Road, Victorville, CA 92395-5850 USA, Victorville, California, USA
Campus	253 acres (102 ha), Suburban Area
Colors	Maroon and gold
Nickname	VVC
Mascot	Rams
Affiliations	California State University, San Bernardino, Azusa Pacific University, University of La Verne
Website	www.vvc.edu Facebook Page

Victor Valley College is a community college in the southeast corner of Victorville, California, United States, part of the 112-campus California Community College System. The Victor Valley Community College district includes Victorville, Hesperia, Apple Valley, Phelan and Adelanto.

The college was created by a vote of the public in 1960 and the first classes were held in 1961 at Victor Valley High School in an unused building. The 253-acre (102 ha) campus started construction in 1963 and was opened to students in 1965.

During the 1990s and 2000s, the campus went through a number of improvements as the resident population of the High Desert increased, most notably an Adaptive Physical Education Building, Advanced Technology Building, Gymnasium, Library, an expanded Performing Arts Center, Planetarium, and the Student Activities Center.

On February 14, 2012, Victor Valley Community College District opened its first satellite campus in Apple Valley called the Regional Public Safety Training Center just northwest of the Apple Valley County Airport (nicknamed the Eastside Center in the Five-Year Plan.) The new center contains 46,000 sq. ft. of classrooms, conference rooms, laboratories, and lecture halls. Directly outside the center, a prop area called "CERT City" (named after County of San Bernardino Community Emergency Response Team) has large vehicles, a hazard tower and disaster areas for simulated exercises. Construction on the second satellite campus, the "Westside" Workforce Development Center in West Hesperia remains in the planning stages with hopes to complete the project before 2020.

The college provides nearly 40 major courses of study, with the most popular being Liberal Arts, Registered Nursing and Business Management. Other majors include vocational subjects in Agriculture and Natural Resources, Fire Science, Welding, Music, Digital Animation, Computer Information Systems, Automotive Repair, Electronics, Construction Technology, and Criminal Justice. As a junior college, VVC issues associate degrees. Thirty three of these programs offer Associate Degrees in either Associate of Arts (A.A.) or Associates of Science (A.S.), along with California's Associates Transfer Degree (AA-T or AS-T) which guarantees admission to either Cal State University or University of California campuses that participate in the program. Offices are also present on-site from universities in partnership with VVC to allow distance education coursework in a handful of majors that provide students with bachelor's degrees.