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New Associate Vice President Joins the Walla Walla College Team

Clinton Valley joined Walla Walla College this year as the new associate vice president for academic administration. He brings with him a great diversity of experience, having worked all over the world.

Valley, who originally hails from Trinidad, earned his bachelor’s degree from Caribbean Union College. He received his master’s degree in church leadership from Andrews University, where he attended on a full scholarship, the Charles E. Weniger Fellowship. He received his doctoral degree in educational leadership from Western Michigan University and a master of business administration degree with a focus on educational management from the University of Nottingham.

Valley has taught at both the high school and college levels at Caribbean Union College in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. He was an adjunct professor at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Mich., for four years and at Newbold College in England for 10 years.
Valley served as high school principal at John Loughborough School, a Seventh-day Adventist school in London. He considers this one of his best experiences in education. When he became principal, the school was at risk of closure due to debt and shrinking enrollment. During his tenure, the school achieved national recognition, and in the name of religious diversity, the British government offered the school state funding. This made it possible for students to attend without fees and for teachers to be paid at state wages. “It became a flagship, not only for the church, but for the country,” Valley says.

Valley has more than 25 years of teaching experience. He has also served as superintendent of schools for the South Caribbean Conference in the Inter-American Division and the South England Conference in the Trans-European Division. He most recently was pastor of two churches in Atlanta, Ga.

His goals for wwc include developing both the nontraditional student market and online distance education programs that would make Adventist education available to students who are unable to come to Walla Walla. W

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