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UPDATE YOUR MAILING AND EMAIL ADDRESS

Financial Aid Students: In order to continue to receive uninterrupted financial aid, you MUST review and update your mailing address and phone number. The Peralta Colleges are implementing a new financial aid system beginning the week of February 6th and you must confirm your correct contact information to receive your funds. You will also need to activate your Peralta email account to receive key information regarding financial aid. Please watch for a bright green envelope in your mailbox containing important information about your financial aid payments.

For more information on the new financial aid system please click here: http://web.peralta.edu/financial-aid/sample-page/peraltacard-higherone/

The smart classroom project consists of equipping 25 classrooms with various technology equipment to enhance the learning experience.

http://www.laney.edu/wp/smartclassroom/

A special Professional Development day on February 11, 2011 with the highly distinguished Dr. Jeff Duncan-Andrade – A resident of Oakland, professor at San Francisco State University, and nationally recognized educator and author. He will engage the Laney Community in a discourse around the following questions…

• What are the material conditions that effect urban youth before they even step foot in our classrooms?
• What does it mean to develop educational enviroments that are relevant and responsive to these conditions?
• How shoud these educational spaces define success for students and teachers?

Laney College Forum

900 Fallon Street, Oakland                      

Due to an unexpected hardware failure, the Promt, Passport, and Email systems have been up and down throughout the evening and morning.  Although we were successful in resolving the email system, Promt and Passport are currently down. 

District personnel are working diligently to restore full service as soon as.

We apologize for this inconvenience!

Two Documentary Films
about South Africa
at Laney
Featuring filmmaker Molly Blank in person

Thursday, November 18, 2010
4:00 – 7:00 PM
Laney College (D-200)
Free Admission
Come to one film, or come to both!

Testing Hope : Grade 12 in the new South Africa (4:00 PM)
Molly Blank’s 2007 award-winning film chronicles the lives of young people facing their future in the evolving post-Apartheid South African democracy. The film points out the challenges facing the government as it struggles to remedy years of inequity and substandard education. (Find out more about the film: http://www.testinghope.com)

Where Do I Stand? (5:30 PM)  ***West Coast Debut***
Molly Blank’s latest film is a window into the lives of seven young people thinking deeply about their actions during and after the xenophobic violence in 2008 as they carve out their place within a complex and divided South Africa. (Find out more about the film: http://wheredoistandfilm.com)

**Summit to address critical role of community colleges as part of

America’s economic vision for the future**

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The White House announced today that Dr. Jill Biden will convene the first-ever White House Summit on Community Colleges on Tuesday, October 5, 2010.  President Obama asked Dr. Biden to chair this event to highlight the critical role that community colleges play in developing America’s workforce and reaching our educational goals.

The Summit is an opportunity to bring together community colleges, business, philanthropy, federal and state policy leaders, and students to discuss how community colleges can ensure that we have the most educated workforce in the world, so that American businesses can compete in the global economy and that we can achieve the President’s goal of leading the world with the highest proportion of college graduates by 2020.  Community colleges are the largest and fastest growing segment of America’s higher education system enrolling more than eight million students each year. This Administration is making historic investments in a series of new innovations and reforms to expand and strengthen opportunities at America’s community colleges. 

The Summit will also enable Americans across the country to submit their thoughts, questions and challenges for discussion as part of the Summit dialogue. The White House has set up a number of ways for the public to participate in the Summit online at www.WhiteHouse.gov/CommunityCollege. Community college students are encouraged to submit their stories about how community college has changed their lives.  Educators, administrators, students and stakeholders can also participate in an online dialogue about improving community colleges for the future.

As a lifelong educator and community college instructor for the past 17 years, Dr. Biden knows that community colleges are uniquely positioned to graduate more Americans with the skills that businesses and the economy will need to compete in the 21^st century.  Since coming to the White House, she has visited successful job training and completion programs as well as student support programs at community college campuses throughout the country. 

“Community colleges are a key part of our economic vision for the future,” said Dr. Biden. “I see firsthand the power of community colleges to change lives every single day I am in the classroom. I am proud to be part of an Administration that recognizes the value of a community college education and is working to make it more accessible to students across this nation.”

Today’s announcement video features current community college students as well as community college graduates. To watch the video, please go to: www.WhiteHouse.gov/CommunityCollege

Individuals highlighted in the video today include:

• Alexandra de Armas, student, Miami Dade Community College
• Bill E. Green, CEO of Accenture, graduate of Dean College
• Ray LaHood, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, graduate of Spoon River Community College
• Jim Lehrer, PBS Newshour, graduate of Victoria Community College
• Sobers Brooks, student, Miami Dade Community College
• Anthony Whitmore, student, Lorain County Community College

Also today, Dr. Biden will visit Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, Maryland. She will meet with college students, teachers, and administrators at Anne Arundel’s Arnold Campus and will tour several facilities there, including the Hotel, Culinary Arts and Tourism Institute which trains students for careers in the hospitality industry. Dr. Biden will be joined by Department of Education Undersecretary Martha Kanter.

Details about media credentialing and logistics for the Summit on Community Colleges will be released at a later date.