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Berkeley City College

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School Notes:

• Vista is a premier, diverse student-centered learning community, dedicated to academic excellence, collaboration, innovation, and transformation.
• Vista, one of California's 107 community colleges, is located at 2020 Milvia Street in downtown Berkeley, in one of the world's great education centers. It is only two blocks from the University of California at Berkeley. Model Programs in American Sign Language, biotechnology, business, computer information systems, the liberal arts and social sciences, place Vista on the cutting edge of community college education in California. Classes convene at the college's urban setting in downtown Berkeley and at the University of California.
• Vista Community College offers a wide variety of financial aid programs and services to help you meet your educational costs. The college participates in the Federal Pell Grant Program, the Federal Supplemental Education Opportunity Grant Program (SEOG), the Federal College-Work Study Program, and the Board of Governors Waiver Program (BOGEFW).
• Vista Community College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
• Profile last updated: 08/22/2008.

In the News:

• Rage at UC Fee Hike in L.A., Berkeley Protests (CommonDreams.org)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 04:30:06 pm
  by Nanette Asimov and Jill Tucker LOS ANGELES - The UC regents are expected to put the final seal today on a hefty 32 percent tuition increase as students resume the protests that shut down their board meeting three times Wednesday and required campus police in riot gear to maintain calm. Students, furious at the increase that will bring their yearly fees above $10,000 for the first time, rushed ...
• Rage at UC fee hike in L.A., Berkeley protests (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 01:59:18 pm
  The UC regents are expected to put the final seal today on a hefty 32 percent tuition increase as students resume the protests that shut down their board meeting three times Wednesday and required campus police in riot gear to maintain calm. Students, furious...
• Regents committee recommends UC fee hikes (San Francisco Chronicle)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 08:26:56 am
  As hundreds of students rushed the building today where UC Regents were meeting - throwing wet red bandannas meant to look like blood - the regents' finance committee voted to recommend a 32 percent student fee increase, setting off planned protests at...
• UC Students, Workers Launch 3-Day Strike (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
  posted on November 19, 2009 at 04:01:03 am
  UC Berkeley students embarked on a three day strike Wednesday to protest budget cuts, furloughs and fee hikes. Chanting “Whose university? Our university!” and “Whose streets?
• BCC Teach-In Aims to Forge Movement (The Berkeley Daily Planet)
  posted on November 12, 2009 at 06:02:09 pm
  Organizers of the teach-in, including Joan Berezin, Global Studies Program Coordinator at BCC, and Marc Lispi, who teaches English, spoke to the audience about the need to form a broad social movement to resist deep cuts in funding for California’s public schools.

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