OAKLAND, CA – During the Peralta Community College District (PCCD) Charrette on November 10, 2022, Interim Chancellor Dr. Jannett N. Jackson announced the successful sale of approximately $151 million of General Obligation (GO) bonds. The sale included $120 million of GO new money bonds that will fund voter-approved infrastructure improvements at PCCD’s four colleges and $31 million of GO refunding bonds to refinance bonds issued in 2012.

The first-ever Peralta Charrette was a huge success. We really appreciate the approximately 200 community members who participated for taking the time to register, attend, and share their thoughts and concerns as the Peralta Community College District (PCCD) works on our five-year strategic plan and the Peralta Colleges – Berkeley City College, College of Alameda, Laney College, and Merritt College – work on their educational master plans.

The Peralta Community College District is proud to support Undocumented Student Action Week (USAW), an initiative led by the state chancellor's office.  As the higher education system that enrolls the largest population of undocumented students, the California Community Colleges are instrumental in ensuring every student, regardless of their citizenship status, can pursue their career and professional goals free from institutional barriers and discrimination. Our annual Undocumented Student Action Week was born out of this premise: to build greater awareness of and support for policies that lead to undocumented student success.

On Friday, July 22nd Royl L. Roberts was sworn into the California Bar and is now licensed to practice law in the State of California. After a successful career in finance and insurance, Mr. Roberts worked as an intern for Peralta Community College District in 2010. He returned to the District in 2013 as a Classified Professional in the Office of the General Counsel. After serving as the Director of Operations for a local non-profit, Mr. Roberts returned to Peralta as the Risk and Safety Programs Manager. He later served as the Director of Employee Relations and Diversity Programs prior to becoming the Chief of Staff to the Chancellor.

The California Association of Black School Educators (CABSE) presented the Peralta Community College District with their Black EdCellence Award for community colleges during their 2nd Annual CABSE Institute in Napa, held July 10-13, 2022.  The Black EdCellence Award recognized the Peralta Colleges for "groundbreaking leadership in advancing education equity for Black Students."

OAKLAND, Calif. – Laney College, located just one block from Lake Merritt BART, is offering new and continuing students a free Fall 2022 semester that goes far beyond free tuition. 

Peralta Community College District wishes to congratulate College of Alameda alum Benjamin Wilson-Ripsom, who recently received the prestigious Robert L. Lippert Foundation college scholarship in the amount of $5000.

Our hearts are broken over the tragic deaths of nineteen elementary school children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday, May 24th, 2022. It comes less than two weeks after a shooter at Tops Supermarket in Buffalo, New York, left ten people dead. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families in Uvalde, and Buffalo, and families across the United States who have lost loved ones to gun violence. But thoughts and prayers are not enough. Our national leaders must take action to keep our communities – and our children – safe from gun violence.

LaNiece Jones, Executive Director of the Peralta Colleges Foundation, is busy - very busy - raising money to help financially support students in the Peralta Community College District. As I write this article, she is extraordinarily focused on preparations for the Foundation's major fundraising event of the spring, the Dr. William "Bill" Riley Golf Tournament which will take place at Sequoyah Country Club on Monday, May 23, 2022.  Visit https://pcfwbrgolftournament2022.funraise.org/ to sign up to participate or to donate. The last PCF golf tournament, on a chilly day in December, raised over $100,000 for student scholarships.  We depend upon the generosity of our community and hope you can join us in person or at least make a donation!

Congratulations to Laney College, winner of Gold Award in the category for Virtual Tours at the the 2021 Collegiate Advertising Awards announced earlier this month. As noted on their website at https://www.collegiateadawards.com/, "The Collegiate Advertising Awards program is an elite national program created to honor today’s most talented marketing professionals for outstanding excellence in all forms of advertising, marketing and promotion specific to higher education products and services."