VAN NUYS : Valley College Gets $225,000 in Gifts
Los Angeles Valley College will use $225,000 in donations to fund its writing center and replace essential science equipment damaged in the Northridge earthquake, school officials announced Monday.
The Alliance for the Advancement of Education donated $200,000 to provide additional funding for the Valley College Writing Center Project, the campus writing lab.
The gift will fund the center through June. The group has donated a total of $400,000 for the center, which employs student tutors working with computers to improve the writing skills of about 250 students each week.
The donation, the third by the nonprofit group, was made to the college’s foundation, the Patrons Assn.
The foundation also received $25,000 from Rotary District 5260 to replace four telescopes and several life science instruments that were damaged in the Jan. 17 quake.
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