Part-time faculty feel full-time pain
Peralta adjunct faculty endure concerns over job security One in four community college professors receives some form of public assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid, according to a recent study...
View ArticleFrom Pipe City to Tent City
“It’s a proven fact that anyone on the street has post-traumatic stress. And anyone who doesn’t have it should be considered not right in the head."
View ArticleDistrict Vice Chancellor total hits 11, costs $2 million
A Laney Tower analysis: District hires three new interim vice chancellors while leaving critical positions unfilled On Flex Day the Peralta community learned that Chancellor Jowel Laguerre had...
View ArticleLaw firms collaborate to offer free services for new immigrants
Gabriela Abrego has lived in California for the last 31 years, more than half her life, renewing her green card every ten years. But on Aug. 20, she took the first decisive step toward becoming a U.S....
View ArticleA nation of immigrants, a journey to citizenship
Oakland ceremony naturalizes over 1,200 permanent legal residents A total of 1,261 new American citizens gathered in Oakland’s Paramount Theater on Sept. 26 for the swearing-in ceremony that makes...
View ArticleSHOW US THE MONEY
Faculty protests after Peralta District claims poverty despite spending millions on administrative hires Several members of the Peralta Federation of Teachers donned orange T-shirts Sept. 27 and...
View ArticleWe Have Your Money Now What?
Peralta district administration balloons under Chancellor Jowel Laguerre The headline above refers to a 2015 grand jury report produced by Solano County after their investigation of a Measure Q bond...
View ArticleTiny Wins BIG
On Saturday, Oct. 15, the winners of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) “Tiny House Competition – Build Small and Win Big” contest were announced on the campus of Cosumnes River College...
View ArticleVote 2016
From parole to pot, from plastic bags to prescription drugs, the bay prepares to cast their ballots in a historic election. The Laney Tower’s guide to measures and propositions. In the Laney Tower’s...
View ArticleGlitch in the System
District’s million-dollar expenditures on IT firm contracts raise more questions than answers Peralta students and faculty have struggled for years with creaky and decidedly user-unfriendly information...
View ArticleDefining American
Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist visits BCC to talk the morality of citizenship Jose Antonio Vargas spoke to a rapt audience at Berkeley City College on Nov. 15 and challenged them to...
View ArticleA glimmer of hope for part-time faculty
Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills into law Sept. 30 that will bring a measure of job security to part-time faculty at California’s community colleges. The bills are AB 1690, carried by former...
View ArticleWHERE WE LIVE
Remember where we live. Today, we in the East Bay continue to suffer, like the rest of the country, under oppressive racism, economic inequality, and increasing displacement—plus the constant threat of...
View ArticleBUILDING THE FUTURE
Award-winning Laney Carpentry Department receives $80k grant for housing initiative The Laney College Carpentry Department won an $80,000 grant from the city of Oakland to build two Tiny House...
View ArticleUnhealthy healthcare
California’s single payer senate bill (SB-562) is long overdue. —— The deficiencies in our healthcare system are glaring. Americans pay more for medical care than any country in the world. Yet on...
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