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Afghanistan in the eyes of an Iranian

Afghanistan in the eyes of an Iranian

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer November 13, 2021

The struggles, pain and sadness of the Afghan people are not just recent hardships. The Afghan people have been through the most heartbreaking of life’s moments for more than 20 years.  The world...

The Voice of The Homeland of Afghanistan 

The Voice of The Homeland of Afghanistan 

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer September 18, 2021

On April 14, President Biden announced that the US military would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11 2021. On July 12, US military forces vacated the Bagram Airfield. A month later, over 65%...

From the River to the Sea: The Struggle for a Free Palestine  من النهر إلى البحر: النضال من أجل فلسطين حرة

From the River to the Sea: The Struggle for a Free Palestine من النهر إلى البحر: النضال من أجل فلسطين حرة

Farhad Golriz May 26, 2021

The Fight For Liberation From the Bay Area To Sheikh Jarrah الكفاح من أجل التحرير من الخليج إلى الشيخ جراح (Photos by Farhad Golriz, main graphic by Leticia...

Peralta Campus Solutions: How to navigate the system update

Peralta Campus Solutions: How to navigate the system update

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer April 21, 2021

Berkeley City College ambassadors led an online Zoom workshop for students on how to navigate the updated online Peralta Campus Solutions (CS) System with step-by-step instructions. When adding...

Twelve Months in Zoom World

Twelve Months in Zoom World

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer April 12, 2021

One year ago, during my second semester of community college, in-person class was suddenly canceled and moved to online learning. All of this happened as I was just getting used to attending my journalism...

Gateway to College At Laney: High Schoolers & Higher Ed

Gateway to College At Laney: High Schoolers & Higher Ed

Innovative program enables students to earn missing high school credits through college classes
Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer March 15, 2021

Laney College’s Gateway to College (GTC) program provides a bridge to higher education, reaching out to teens who have struggled academically. GTC at Laney is holding a series of workshops to...

Laney College extends deadline for degree and certificate petitions 

Laney College extends deadline for degree and certificate petitions 

Laney students now have until March 19 to submit applications
Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer March 12, 2021

Laney College has extended its deadline for degree and certificate petitions to Friday, March 19, 2021.  Students with 45 or more associate-level units were informed of the deadline extension in...

Select job opportunities open at UC Berkeley

Select job opportunities open at UC Berkeley

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer March 6, 2021

The University of California Berkeley currently has some employment opportunities for select positions, even during the pandemic. On March 3, Talent Acquisition Advisor Alex Reyes gave a presentation...

Peralta Foundation scholarships application deadline approaches

Peralta Foundation scholarships application deadline approaches

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer February 18, 2021

The Peralta Colleges Foundation will award several scholarships to students across the district, with March 1 being this semester’s deadline for all students to submit applications for these scholarships.  There...

Three Peralta Colleges receive Equity Champion of Higher Education Award

Three Peralta Colleges receive Equity Champion of Higher Education Award

Farhad Golriz, Tayler Shaw, and Jose Hernandez December 7, 2020

The inaugural Equity Champions of Higher Education awards took place on November 19, a ceremony that honored community colleges with accomplishments in academic success for Black and Latino students...

Understanding the Supreme Court nomination process

Understanding the Supreme Court nomination process

Peralta professors discuss Amy Coney Barrett nomination
Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer October 13, 2020

Yesterday, President Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, began her confirmation hearing in Washington, DC. Due to a controversial nomination history and with the presidential...

Peralta spring 2021 semester officially remote

Peralta spring 2021 semester officially remote

Farhad Golriz, Staff Writer September 11, 2020

The Peralta Community College District will continue online instruction for the spring 2021 semester, Executive Director of Public Information, Communication and Media Mark Johnson confirmed today during...

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