LAVC welcomes Armine Galukyan, the new Executive Assistant in the LAVC President's Office. As the President's executive assistant, she is responsible for managing the operations of the President's Office and will assist in the planning campus-wide events. She joins Ilene Sutter, senior secretary, in supporting the needs of the college. 

LAVC welcomes Sarah Song as its new Associate Vice President in the Administrative Services Department. She started in November 2015, and oversees the Bookstore, Office Services, Community Services Program, and the college's emergency preparedness activities. In addition, she was recently named the college's ADA Coordinator.

LAVC will honor outstanding athletes, coaches, and staff that excelled in or made a major contribution to the Valley College Athletic Program at the LAVC Athletic Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on June 25. This year, the Class of 2016 inductees include the 1994 Football Team, Dale Beck, Leon Criner, Steve Danielson, Aaron Flowers, Yvette Maufas, Diedra Stark, and Roger Wolff.

The LA Fellow Program at LAVC was recently recognized by Councilmember Paul Krekorian and the Los Angeles City Council. The program offers a unique combination professional development and volunteerism as a meaningful pathway to help qualified job seekers find employment.

The LAVC Foundation recently received a gift of stock totaling $840,000 from the estate of Joseph Nordmann. Nordmann, a former department chair and professor in Chemistry and one of the founding members of the LAVC faculty in 1949, was a long-time supporter of the LAVC Foundation.

LAVC Jewish Studies Professor Emeritus Zev Garber recently spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew's Society of Biblical Literature. 

LAVC associate professor William Dauber covered the San Bernardino shootings on December 2 for the Washington Post. He helped to provide details on several articles on the mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center. 

The California Community College Board of Governors has approved $15 million in funding to support the Cooperating Agencies Foster Youth Educational Support (CAFYES) programs at the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) and nine other California community colleges. The LACCD anticipates receiving up to $1.6 million for the nine colleges in the district, including LAVC. 

Alejandra "Ally" Alvarez, an LAVC student, was selected as one of the 50 recipients of the California Blueprint Young Scholars Award and represented Valley College at this year's statewide Blueprint Foster Youth Conference. Congratulations!

The 50th anniversary edition of LAVC's literary magazine, Manuscript, has been published online and it features the outstanding work of fiction, poetry, and photography by LAVC students.