Victoria College’s Fall 2019 Student Music Recital will be from 4:30-6 p.m. Monday in the Choir Room (Room 110) of VC’s Fine Arts Building.
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The University of Houston-Victoria welcomed community leaders and supporters Tuesday evening to its 2018-2019 UHV President’s Annual Report & Excellence Awards to celebrate a year of growth and present awards to a community leader, a foundation with a long history of supporting the unive…
The holiday season is here, and community members will have a special opportunity to contribute to the University of Houston-Victoria during the university’s fourth annual Giving Tuesday campaign, including the opportunity to help the university meet a matching challenge goal.
Victoria College’s Fall 2019 Student Music Recital will be from 4:30-6 p.m. Monday in the Choir Room (Room 110) of VC’s Fine Arts Building.
The Crossroads Strings’ Winter Concert is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts.
The Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts will present a screening of the live performance of “The Royal Opera: Don Pasquale” at 1 p.m. Nov. 24.
The Museum of the Coastal Bend’s Hands-On History Series will continue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 23 with “Happy Birthday, La Salle!”
Victoria College has received a grant of $50,025 from the U.S. Department of Education to offer assistance with childcare expenses to students majoring in general studies.
The University of Houston- Victoria/American Book Review Reading Series is preparing for its spring series featuring five award-winning novelists, poets and essayists, including a Pushcart Prize winner and a National Endowment for the Arts fellow.
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To grow as a people, an exchange of ideas is fundamental to human culture, said poet Amaranth Borsuk.
Q: Last month, I went to one of UHV’s Crossroads Café events. When is the next one, and how can musicians sign up to perform?
Colleges and universities across Texas and outside the state will be represented College Night 2019 from 6-7:30 p.m Tuesday in the Conference and Education Center at Victoria College’s Emerging Technology Complex.
When Amaranth Borsuk, the next presenter in the University of Houston-Victoria/American Book Review Reading Series, was in graduate school, she found herself in a strange dichotomy between working at the letterpress studio at a Los Angeles art college while also doing research on electronic …
Victoria College’s Associate Degree Nursing Program Level 1 students hosted approximately 30 Nazareth Academy 4-year-old students Oct. 25 to give them health and safety tips during the semiannual Pediatrics Day at VC’s Health Sciences Center.
Mark Ward Sr., an associate professor of communication at the University of Houston-Victoria, recently was named the recipient of a 2019 national award for outstanding article of the year in spiritual communication.
December graduates from the University of Houston-Victoria will be the first group to participate in a new university tradition: UHV-specific graduation regalia.
Victoria College visual art students will display their work during the Fall 2019 Student Art Exhibition from Nov. 14 to Dec. 5 at VC’s Fine Arts Gallery.
Victoria College’s John W. Stormont Lecture Series will continue at 5:30 p.m. Thursday with “Alonso de Leon’s Expeditions into Texas” at the Museum of the Coastal Bend.
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Victoria College English professor Bridgette Marshall took about six years to get a bachelor’s degree.
Recently, I came across an article that got me thinking. The author advocated for allowing your children to fail, noting, “I recently told (my son) it’s my job to let him fail while he’s still at home with me because he needs to learn how to lose his ---- and then pick it up and move forward…
Victoria College’s three-part Leadership Series will conclude Thursday with “Creating a Service Culture” from 8 a.m. to noon in Room 302 of the Conference and Education Center at VC’s Emerging Technology Complex.
The Executive Directors of the Cuero Chamber and Main Street teamed up and represented Cuero for two days during the last week of the Texas State Fair, working the Heritage booth in the Go Texan Pavilion. Several visitors stopped by to pick up brochures and learn about all the amazing places…
Victoria College is offering a “Microsoft Excel Level 1 in a Day” class 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and a “Microsoft Excel Level 2 in a Day” class 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7.
The University of Houston-Victoria Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Building may not be open yet, but it’s already won an award for architectural design from the Corpus Christi chapter of a national architecture group.
Victoria College’s Core Curriculum: Introductory Craft Skills class will be offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 10 p.m. on Nov. 4-Dec. 11 in Room 223 of the Industrial Training Center at VC’s Emerging Technology Complex.
Registration for Victoria College’s traditional Spring 2020 classes – those that lead to a degree, certificate or university transfer – will begin at 7:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 4, and run through 5 p.m. Jan. 9.
Victoria College’s “Personalities in the Workplace” Lunch and Learn Series will conclude with “Communicate with Different Personalities” on Nov. 7 in Room 302 of the Conference and Education Center at VC’s Emerging Technology Complex, 7403 Lone Tree Road in Victoria.
The Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts will present a screening of the live performance of “The Royal Opera: Don Giovanni” at 1 p.m. Sunday.
American Electric Power Foundation awarded the University of Houston-Victoria a $50,000 grant for its Summer Bridge Scholars.
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Victoria College’s Allied Health Continuing Education Department is accepting completed application packets for spring 2020 courses through Nov. 8.
Victoria College will hold two Power Line Worker Information Sessions from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 226 of the Industrial Training Center at VC’s Emerging Technology Complex.
The Victoria Regional History Center, based inside the new University of Houston-Victoria University Commons, now has more than a decade of new photographs and negatives from the Victoria Advocate, as well as bound issues of the newspaper up to 2005.
For the second year in a row, the University of Houston-Victoria set a fundraising record by raising more than $3 million in donations during the 2018-2019 fiscal year and achieving several smaller records, including the number of donors and support from alumni.
After serving 12 years as president of the Victoria Chamber of Commerce, Randy Vivian saw firsthand the impact Victoria College makes on the community and beyond.
The Victoria College Foundation has welcomed two new members to its board of directors.
Representatives from the University of Houston System, UHV, UH and the Katy community participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 14 for the new Katy Academic Building that houses classes for UHV and UH programs. The new location is a three-story, 80,000-square-foot building at 22400 Grand…
Victoria College freshmen Jacob Evans and Kayla Wagner were recently elected the top two officers for VC’s Student Government Association.
Author A. Van Jordan always had a passion for writing, but it wasn’t until college he realized he could become a published author.
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Leroy Chiao knew he wanted to be an astronaut when he was 8 years old.
Every parent wants to know their child is performing well academically in school. It should come as no surprise that the child’s parent is the most important person who can help their child give the best performance in school.
A new $2.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education will help the University of Houston-Victoria launch new programs to help promote undergraduate student success.
Victoria College will hold its 25th Annual Halloween Carnival from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Friday on the Student Center lawn on VC’s Main Campus.
The University of Houston-Victoria is kicking off a new quarterly Alumni Networking Luncheon series with a presentation from alumni David and Tammy Murphy, owners and operators of Victoria’s Chick-fil-A restaurants.
Book Authority, a national book reviewing website, has included a book by a University of Houston-Victoria computer science faculty member in two of the site’s ranking lists for the best computer science books of all time.
The University of Houston-Victoria’s Bachelor of Science in criminal justice recently was ranked nationally on The Best Schools’ Most Affordable Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice Programs top 50 list for factors that included its academic excellence, faculty scholarship, reputation and financial aid.
The 2019 Megan Diaz Memorial Alumni Volleyball Game is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at Victoria College’s Sports Center.
University of Houston-Victoria students pick up trash in September during a beach cleanup trip to Mustang Island near Port Aransas. Twenty-five students spent the morning picking up trash along the beach, then spent time relaxing in the sun and surf. Some community members saw the students c…
Victoria College has been selected by the Texas Success Center to participate in a multimillion-dollar Texas Pathways Round Two grant through 2022.
Victoria College’s 2019-20 Lyceum Lecture Series will continue at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 21 with former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao speaking at the Victoria Fine Arts Center.
Having worked in the finance business since high school, Candy Mageluzzo knew the best investment she could make for her two children was their education.
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Wonderful program...except they are not crocheting, they are using a knitting loom. I do love how they are teaching them to use the looms, a terrific skill!
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Mrs. Tally,I also have a special place in my heart for diplomacy and those who practice it. It seems I have the same biases you presented in your piece, which are rare here in Gerrymanderville…
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