Michelle Chen didn’t take the road most traveled, and that’s exactly why her story stands out. A 2023 graduate of Irvine Valley College (IVC), Michelle transferred to UCLA’s prestigious Design Media Arts (DMA) program, a major with an acceptance rate of just 5 percent. “The year I was accepted, they only took 15 transfer students out of hundreds of applicants,” Michelle says.
Starting on September 1, 2024, Assembly Bill 2683 will require California Community Colleges to annually train their students on Sexual violence and sexual harassment. The training also must cover additional topics such as “the differing rates at which students experience sexual harassment and sexual assault in the educational setting based on their race, sexual orientation, disability, gender, and gender identity”.
Irvine Valley College (IVC) celebrated another successful year of its 4th Annual Idea Pitch Competition in November, drawing creative talent and entrepreneurial spirit from across the campus. The two-round competition challenged students to pitch innovative product or service ideas, resulting in over 50 submissions from more than 12 different disciplines. The competition kicked off with students submitting 60-second video pitches that outlined the problems they aimed to solve, their creative solutions, and target customers.
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IVC’s Model United Nations team won two Outstanding Delegation awards at the National Model UN Conference held in Washington, D.C. (NMUN DC) last month. The awards mark a decade of excellence for the IVC MUN team, now winning the top award at NMUN DC 10 years in a row. IVC was the only community college, out of the 35 schools in attendance, to win two top awards.