SF News Laney-Merritt Colleges Approve Merger Amid Faculty, Student Pushback In an effort to address steep enrollment declines, Merritt and Laney colleges announced the approval of plans to merge under the new “Oakland City College” name by next fall, while keeping both campuses open — a move that some students and faculty say left them blindsided.
SF News Scammers Are Now Applying To California Colleges Just To Steal The Financial Aid A stunning 20% of all applications to California community colleges are now “ghost students,” that is, scammers using someone else’s name to pocket the financial aid and never show up for a single class.
SF News Tom Hanks Lends Support For President's Community College Plan, Says Chabot College 'Made Me What I Am Today' Oscar winner and recent Kennedy Center honoree Tom Hanks has voiced his full support in a NYT op-ed for President Obama's proposal to make two years of free community college
SF News Last Night's Harvey Milk Club Civility No one pulled out a bitch's clump of hair. That's the big news. Oh, and some other stuff happened, ahem: The Club's membership voted tonight on the
SF News Random Political Odds And Ends We can't be bothered to type up all these intriguing little political news tidbits into that many separate posts for the day! So we're compiling them all here. --That
