The Peralta Association of African American Affairs (PAAAA) hosted a lively celebration of student achievement on Thursday, May 2, 2024, honoring nine student scholarship award winners at their annual Scholarship Awardee Reception.
On April 3-5, Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education (APAHE) held their annual national conference in Oakland with the theme of "RADICAL HOPE LEADING WITH LOVE, COURAGE, & ACTION". The event saw over 1300 attendees, including Peralta employees such as Board Trustee Nicky González Yuen and Chancellor Tammeil Gilkerson.
On Tuesday, April 2, the first White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (WHIAANHPI) Higher Education Leadership Development Summit was held at UC Berkeley.
On Thursday, March 28th, Peralta’s first-ever Professional Development Day held exclusively for Classified Professionals was hosted by College of Alameda. The day included speeches from the Presidents, raffles for gifts, a powerful keynote on the importance of self-care for those who are responsible for helping others by Dr. Dawn Moultrie, and workshops on retirement planning with CalPERS and Understanding Boundaries to protect students and employees by ASCIP, Peralta's insurance provider. Attendees also enjoyed delicious tacos and dancing, too!
Peralta Authors Featured in CSU Fullerton’s "LIFT Your Voice" Spring 2024 Issue
The Peralta Colleges were well-represented in the March 2024 issue of "LIFT your Voice”, a publication of the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow at Cal State Fullerton, which aims to impact higher-education systems and communities by developing a new generation of diverse, confident, and competent leaders with the change agency to reconstruct community colleges, universities, and organizations into just, equitable, and inclusive institutions free of racism.
The Laney College photography dual enrollment program, which partners with Fremont High Media Academy, was recognized as a distinguished California partnership academy by the California Department of Education.
Laney College will be represented at the CCCAA Track & Field State Championship for the third consecutive year, as sophomore throwers Jack Beltran, Jada Joshua, and Tupu Ve’e all advance.
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This has been an eventful season filled with the most challenging weather we have faced since Brock Drazen began coaching. Here is an update from Coach Drazen:
Groundbreaking Ceremony and Block Party Marked the College’s 50th Anniversary
BERKELEY, Calif., April 24, 2024 – Celebration hit Center Street in Berkeley the afternoon of Tuesday, April 23, as the community and Berkeley City College (BCC), the Peralta Community College District, and Peralta’s Bond Program, “Build Peralta” celebrated 50 years of BCC history and the groundbreaking of a new building at 2118 Milvia Street that symbolized the future of the campus.
