Sometimes unintentionally falling in love takes you on an unplanned adventure. Follow Preethamol’s life from India to the US as she experienced nursing at intensive clinical, teaching, and administrative levels.

How does a ten-year-old boy running the streets of LA homeless find his way to become a professor at LAVC? Listen to the Valley College Connection Podcast and be inspired.

Sometimes a love of learning languages takes you on a lifelong adventure.

10:17 – Why study Japanese?

14:53 – What experiences did you have living in Japan as an English language teacher?

21:00 – What was it like to take attend a Japanese university?

25:27 – How is learning Chinese different from learning Japanese?

31:37 – Enjoying playing electric guitar professionally in Taiwan.

43:44 – Sometimes the road to a tenured faculty position is a winding road.

46:04 – What does a reading specialist do? What happens in a dev com (reading class)?

Producer/Engineer Lisa Darrow

Learn what you can do with a child development license as we follow Dr. Baghdaserians’ academic/professional journey from community college to an Ed. D. 

How did volunteering at a crisis hotline for domestic violence, open the door to writing legislation to protect abused women and monitor human rights for the United Nations? Tune in and hear Professor Labertew's inspiring story. 

In high school, Luis joined Upper Bound which helped him navigate his way from South Central to UC Irvine. Now he is building a career on helping those same students navigate STEM (Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics) careers at LAVC.

Produced/Edited by Lisa Darrow

Listen to Chauncey’s uplifting decades-long journey of starting at LAVC as a music major, working at every level of the college, until eventually becoming a tenured faculty and President of the Academic Senate.

Ever wonder what you can do with a Marriage and Family Counseling Master's? Join our conversation with Ron Mossler as he describes his journey through graduate school at CSUN and UCLA and a rich career including his own counseling practice, textbook writing, research, and teaching.

Producer/Engineer Jess Callejas

 How do you go from learning the multiplication table to UC Berkley? You do it one step at a time. Listen to Sabrina’s journey to Berkley and the advice she was given every step of the way from family and faculty.

Last year Yale announced a class on Happiness, and it was mobbed by thousands of students who wanted to enroll. Scott and John talk about the science of how to be happy in the face of the challenges of college.