What does Juneteenth mean to you? For Juneteenth (June 19th), also known as "Freedom Day," Chancellor Stanback Stroud gathered Peralta Colleges employees including faculty, classified professionals and administrators in this salon-style panel to discuss Juneteenth, what it means to the African American Community, and the educational implications. You can watch the video on YouTube here. It is one hour and seventeen minutes well spent.
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Peralta Community College District is partnering with Urban Leaders Fellowship (ULF) to host five ULF fellows. The Urban Leaders Fellowship is a paid seven-week fellowship experience implemented in eight cities across the country. The fellows are leaders interested in impacting real and lasting change by working with partner organizations on policy advancement, leadership development, and community impact.
OAKAND, CA – The Peralta Community College District (PCCD) Board of Trustees unanimously passed a resolution entitled Affirming Our Commitment To Student Success For African American Students. As an institution that has long fostered and embodied social justice teachings, the district’s “commitment to diversity and inclusion also requires advocating and employing our collective voice to identify and eliminate barriers to equity.”
In response to dramatically increased food insecurity from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Peralta Colleges forged partnerships with two nonprofits – Oakland’s Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation and the World Central Kitchen – to provide thousands of meals to students at three of its four campus locations. The Eat. Learn. Play. Foundation underwrites the cost of the meals, while the World Central Kitchen helps provide food delivery and distribution logistics. Special thanks to Peralta Colleges Foundation Executive Director LaNiece Jones for helping make this new venture possible.
On June 4, 2020, the Peralta Community College District hosted a virtual Town Hall webinar. The focus was addressing the institutional racism pervasive in our society that contributed to the recent murder of Mr. George Floyd by the Minneapolis Police. Peralta leaders posted our statement regarding the killing of Mr. Floyd here. The goal of this Town Hall was to help raise the racial literacy and critical consciousness of the community while providing a safe space to reflect and share resources.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
Greetings Peralta Community! Welcome to issue #16 of Peralta Gems. Congratulations everyone for making it through the Spring 2020 semester...a term like no other. Congratulations especially to all who graduated. Nothing, not even a pandemic, can stop you from achieving your dreams! #PeraltaStrong. --Mark Johnson
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Greetings Peralta Community! Welcome to issue #15 of Peralta Gems. Welcome to the "new normal" of week 8 sheltering-in-place. These times call on our best selves to be engaged, creative and to show up boldly for the community. I am so proud to be part of the Peralta Community College District because we ALL are all doing just that. We
Got This - Together. #PeraltaStrong. --Mark Johnson
Monday, April 27, 2020
Greetings Peralta Community! Welcome to issue #14 of Peralta Gems. We have been sheltering-in-place for 6 weeks now and it is working to "flatten the curve" and slow the spread of COVID-19. Here in the District, teaching and learning continues. Student services and counseling remain available online. What I am seeing across the Peralta Community is: You Got This. Students are adapting. Faculty are adapting. Staff and administrators are adapting. These times call on our best selves to be engaged, creative and to show up boldly for the community and we are all doing just that. We Got This - Together. #PeraltaStrong. --Mark Johnson
Monday, March 30, 2020
Greetings Peralta Community! Welcome to issue #13 of Peralta Gems. This issue contains important information about the District response to COVID-19 so please read closely. Thank you to everyone for your flexibility and positive attitude in these very stressful times. --Mark Johnson
