The Berkeley City Council heard an update on the educational equity plan this week, learning about what has worked and what still needs to be done.
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Video: Undocumented students find support at Berkeley City College
Berkeley City College students opened a resource center this month that will provide legal and academic counseling to undocumented students and community members.
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Scholarship supports leap from Berkeley High to Berkeley City College
Berkeley Promise is a new collaboration between the city of Berkeley, the Berkeley Community Fund and Berkeley City College.
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Op-ed: How can you help Berkeley youth qualify for a good career?
Berkeley can certainly take pride in the remarkable rise in our local high school graduation rate, but we still fall far short of what’s needed to assure equal opportunity for all students, especially disadvantaged youth. In the 2013-14 school year, the most recent year with comparative statewide data, Berkeley’s high school graduation rate was 89%, […]
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Berkeley students march to push for police reforms
Protesters walked along Shattuck Avenue on Tuesday night in a march meant to put pressure on City Hall to take action on police use of tear gas at a demonstration Dec. 6, 2014. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel About 150 students from UC Berkeley, Berkeley City College and Berkeley High, along with a few community members, marched […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
Head downtown Friday night to participate in the city’s holiday tree lighting ritual. Photo: DBA/YouTube HOLIDAY TREE LIGHTING Thanksgiving is behind us, and the winter holidays are just around the corner. Downtown Berkeley is kicking off the season with its third annual Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration. It’s exactly what it sounds like — plus baked goods, holiday crafts for […]
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The It List: Five things to do in Berkeley this weekend
Students register for classes at Vista College during its earliest years. Now called Berkeley City College, the institution is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Photo: www.berkeleycitycollege.edu BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE 40TH ANNIVERSARY Berkeley may be best known for one of its higher-ed institutions, but this week a much-deserved spotlight will be trained on the other. Although it has gone […]
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Once-courteous 15th Assembly campaign turns negative
State Assembly candidates Elizabeth Echols and Tony Thurmond debated each other in Berkeley on Oct. 7. Photo: Lance Knobel The two candidates in a competitive state Assembly race had the chance to woo Berkeley voters at a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters at Berkeley City College on Tuesday. Elizabeth Echols and Tony […]
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Remembering Ben Yerger, educational servant, pioneer
Ben Yerger, who died on Feb. 5, 2014 Benjamin James Yerger (December 8, 1930 -February 5, 2014) lived in Berkeley for 38 years and was a dean at what is now known as Berkeley City College. He was the first African American admitted to the University of Arkansas’ School of Medicine, studied at UC Berkeley, and was involved in […]
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Coming soon: A 3-story mural painted by city’s youth
Next Saturday June 4th [not Monday June 6th as previously — erroneously — reported] will see the unveiling of Berkeley’s freshest mural, a collaborative effort by Berkeley City College students and teenagers from the city’s recently opened YMCA-PG&E Teen Center. It will also be one of the city’s largest murals. Work has been ongoing on the three-story […]
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Berkeley poets take to the stage Saturday at festival
For the last eight years, poets from around the East Bay have been gathering each year at the Berkeley Poetry Festival. Sometimes they meet and read together on a street. Other times they gather in a television studio and broadcast two days worth of poems. On other occasions, they have recited poetry in a museum. […]
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Uncertain times for Berkeley City College literary journal
The cover of 2010 issue of Milvia Street. Designed by Joannie Mitchell The current issue of Milvia Street, the literary magazine of Berkeley City College, features an eclectic mix of artists and writers. There is a story by Hoa Tran, who fled with his family from Vietnam after the war and went on to get […]
