EDBLog – Westchester Community College Foundation

From the Desk of the Executive Director, Dolores Swirin-Yao

July-August 2025

As the summer winds down, the campus is active with summer activities and gears up to welcome our students for the fall semester! I am sharing our July and early August activities before my summer break. My next blog will cover our September happenings. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

New students were welcomed on campus during New Student Orientation over three days in mid-August, led by our dedicated Orientation Leaders. SUNY WCC has had three years of enrollment growth.

Our friends at LUCA (Latino U College Access) held two days of workshops on SUNY WCC’s Valhalla campus to help prepare Westchester high school students for their next steps in higher education. The sessions included a session on SUNY WCC’s Honors College, from which students transfer to selective public and private four-year colleges.

It was a joy to join in the send-off for SUNY WCC’s 22^nd annual Cambridge Study Abroad Honors Programme at Cambridge University. 12 scholars will gain life-changing experiences and earn credits at SUNY WCC, traveling with their faculty mentors.

SUNY WCC partnered with Grad Bag again this year to distribute gently used dorm room essentials to students going away to residential colleges for the first time, including those who are transferring from WCC to four-year colleges. The number of student participants doubled from last year, as did the supplies collected, a total of 2300 items. Our cooperation was featured in this segment on News 12.

The Good for Girls STEAAM Summer Camp Program, sponsored by the Westchester County Board of Legislators and the Westchester County Youth Bureau, was once again hosted on the SUNY WCC Valhalla campus.