Accreditation
Irvine Valley College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC), an institutional accrediting body recognized by the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation and the U.S. Department of Education.



Longtime IVC colleague and friend Kirk C. Gorrie passed away Wednesday, February 27, 2013, after a long battle with cancer. Kirk is survived by his wife Margaret Gorrie, son Brian Gorrie (age 22 and an IVC graduate now studying in England), daughter Michele Gorrie (a 17-year-old senior at Northwood), mother Trula Gorrie, and father Clayton Gorrie.
Marie de la Palme was a principal dancer in New York for Alvin Ailey III, Trisler Danscompany, Keith Lee Ballets, and Omega Dance. She taught and choreographed for Jacques d’Amboise’s National Dance Institute, later working on industrials and musicals in Orange County and Las Vegas before focusing on concert choreography, for which she received three Horton Award nominations.