Welcome

You will find yourself here.
• You will study with brilliant teachers and curious classmates, developing academic excellence. 
• You will live and work among people from all over the world, and you will learn about cultures different from your own, fostering intercultural understanding and world citizenship for yourself and your peers.
• You will work -- physically labor -- to care for this campus, our shared home, cultivating our environment and your own appreciation for hard work.
• You will serve others and you will be served by others, developing your understanding of a vitally important part of our shared humanity: filling the needs we observe in the world.
• You will live close to the land – among the red rocks – working with the farm, with the horses and their manure, with the compost, with the recycling, with the caretaking of this beautiful campus, all the while, strengthening your ethic of environmental stewardship.

These five principles – Academic Excellence, World Citizenship, Physical Labor, Service to Humanity, and Environmental Stewardship – will change you. For the better. This is the promise of VVS.

Ben Lee, Ed.D.
Head of School
(Pictured Ben Lee and his wife, Lixue Lin)