Oksana Ulianchenko succeeds in ESL program. Photo taken March 20. (Astrid Cortez | Valley Star)

Dramatic increase in enrollment for non-credit ESL courses

Students from Russia, Ukraine and Armenia flock to Valley College’s ESL program. According to an internal President’s email, non-credit ESL, ESL-Civics and Computer Literacy enrollment has increased by 77 percent since 2022, due to an influx of students from Armenia, Ukraine, and Russia. The three non-credit ESL (English as a ...