Finalists Named For President Of Contra Costa College
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Three finalists were announced Monday for president of Contra Costa College in San Pablo.
The finalists are Tina Vasconcellos, Tia Robinson-Cooper and Damon Bell, according to a press release from the Contra Costa Community College District.
Vasconcellos is vice president of student services and accreditation liaison officer at College of Alameda. She has served as dean of academic and student affairs at Laney College and Merritt College.
Robinson-Cooper is provost and vice-president of academic affairs and chief academic officer at Inver Hills Community College, a campus of Minnesota State Colleges and Universities. She has served as the vice-president of academic affairs at East Central College, dean of teaching and learning at Rock Valley College, as associate dean and dean of instruction at Olive-Harvey College and as dean of academic affairs at Northwestern College.
“Communication is really the backbone of leadership,” Perlas said. I want to have transparency and to make positive progress here.”
While COS classes are mainly online due to the pandemic, Perlas hopes to have more classes in person in the fall semester.
Perlas said she loves living with her husband, Matt, and two dogs in Siskiyou County. She also loves all the outdoor opportunities. Perlas can be found many weekends hitting the slopes at the Mt. Shasta Ski Park. I love the adrenaline rush, and it s a fun way to unwind, Perlas said. She began the sport in earnest when she went for her undergrad at Fresno State and had a ski resort fairly nearby.
The Wall Stands Only a Few Feet Tall. But What It Stands for is Significant.
For more than 50 years, “the wall” at Berkeley has been a place where Black students gather. Now it’s getting recognition.
By Ande Richards
WALLS HOLD A MYTHICAL PLACE IN OUR SOCIAL ORDER. Pilgrims push slips of paper with wishes and prayers into the many cracks of the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. The Great Wall of China is a spectacle of ancient defensive architecture and a symbol of strength. The Berlin Wall evolved from a barbed wire and cinder block line of demarcation into a series of 15-foot-high concrete walls separating East and West Germany. It was a Cold War monument to their conflicting ideologies.
Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Polaris
Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
Photo: Irfan Khan/Los Angeles Times/Polaris
Madison Dabalos, 18, left, and Ixchel Cisneros, 18, wearing face masks walk back to their dorms takeout breakfast from Gastronome at Cal State Fullerton on Aug. 21, 2020.
January 15, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education released $21.2 billion Thursday as part of the coronavirus relief legislation Congress and President Trump approved in December to help colleges and universities nationally. Of that amount, more than $2.83 billion will go to public and private California colleges and universities.
An Oakland-based community college district may soon be forced to cede power to the state if its Board of Trustees can’t quell concerns about its ability to properly govern the district.
Intervening at the Peralta Community College District, home to four East Bay colleges serving almost 30,000 students, would be a drastic step. Only twice previously has the state chancellor’s office and the systemwide Board of Governors assumed power from a locally-elected governing board: At the City College of San Francisco in 2013 and at Compton College in 2004.
The colleges in Peralta, one of 73 districts in California’s vast 116 community college system, are Laney College and Merritt College in Oakland, Berkeley City College and the College of Alameda.