Enjoy WLAC Highlights from 2023
Monday, January 1, 2024
4:00 am - 11:00 pm Public Event Enjoy WLAC Highlights from 2023
2023 was an eventful year at West Los Angeles College. Accomplishments included being named on the prestigious Aspen Top 150 Community Colleges list, receiving the MAP College of the Year award for our work with Credit for Prior Learning and being granted permission to award a Bachelor’s degree in a second subject – Avionics. West is one of only 3 community colleges in the state authorized to offer two Bachelor’s degrees.
The unique Center for Climate Change Education also launched this year and hosted hundreds of students, educators, policy-makers and employers at two majors events. Guest speakers included Youth Climate Activist Wawa Gatheru, CA Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Christian, and CA Representative Isaac Bryan. These events garnered attention from LAist, Univision, LA Sentinel, Yale, USC News and more.
Innovation also marked 2023. West launched an earn your degree in Spanish program partnered with an earn your GED program - both for $0 tuition for students.
Partnership events with LAUSD and its affiliates brought dance teams, bands, cheer and step squads, and millionaires to campus with bus loads of excited high school students.