We are excited to have begun the Fall 2023 semester at our four Peralta colleges. Congratulations are in order for students taking their first steps in reaching their education and career goals.
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In September 2022, Mark Johnson (Executive Director of Marketing, Communication & Public Relations at Peralta Community College District) had the great pleasure to interview Sheng Thao, soon to be elected Mayor of Oakland, about her experiences as a graduate of Merritt College. We are proud to have a Merritt Valedictorian as the new mayor of Oakland. Congratulations Sheng Thao!
In February 2022, the Peralta Community College District launched our new website at www.peralta.edu following more then a year of planning, data analysis, design work, and collaboration with students and employees. It had been a long time coming, and ironically, experienced some delay due to the coronavirus.
With both an in-person celebration and a virtual event, Berkeley City College celebrated the graduates of 2022.
Capping off a successful Spring 2022 semester, Laney College held its 2022 graduation in both in-person and virtual formats.
Merritt College honored its recent graduates with a hybrid ceremony with both an in-person celebration and an online event.
College of Alameda celebrated its graduates with both a virtual event and an in-person celebration.
Working every day to better the lives of the Peralta community, our faculty brings immeasurable talent and experience to bear in the classroom. At the March 8 meeting of the Peralta Board of Trustees, a strong list of faculty from across the district received tenure.
Congratulations are in order for College of Alameda which has been named a 2022 Champion for Excelling in Equitable Course Placement in Black English Throughput by The Campaign for College Opportunity. The Campaign for College Opportunity describes itself as "focused on a single mission: Working to ensure all Californians have an equal opportunity to attend and succeed in college in order to build a vibrant workforce, economy and democracy." College of Alameda President Nathaniel Jones II noted 'the college is thankful for the recognition of the College of Alameda’s work to foster greater levels of achievement equity.'
February is Black History Month, and the Peralta Colleges will be celebrating all month long. Merritt College President David M. Johnson, in an email to the Merritt Community, described the history of this month of remembrance:
