14th Annual African/ African American Graduation: “A Call to Action: Africans Unite!”
The 14th Annual African and African American Graduation ceremony is a pre-commencement celebration to honor African and African American students who through unyielding determination have successfully completed an Associate Degree and or Certificate, from a Peralta Community College. The ceremony is representative of African and African American culture and heritage and embraces the values of community scholarship and achievement.
The African/African American Graduation does not replace your college commencement ceremony.
Graduation Date:
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Location:
In-person festivities will be in the Merritt College Huey P. Newton Lounge beginning at 11:00 am, and the virtual event will be televised at 5:30 pm. The link will be forwarded in a later email.
Virtual Graduate RSVP email:
africangrad@peralta.edu
With your RSVP, please include the following information for your Graduation Slide:
- Full Name
- Student ID
- Graduation College
- Degree(s)/Major(s)
- Graduation Picture (Can be a cell phone pic)
- Whose shoulders you stand on/who supported your academic journey this far (two sentences)
Please forward your information no later than May 6th.
Watch the 2020 celebration on Youtube
Questions? Please feel free to contact one of the following committee members:
- Dr. Lawrence VanHook, Chair at lvanhook3@gmail.com
- Merritt College: Cie-Jae (Rose) Allen, Co-Chair at (510) 436-2572; cjallen@peralta.edu; or,
Doris Hankins at (510) 434-3982; dhankins@peralta.edu - Berkeley City College: Ramona Butler, Co-Chair at (510) 981-2832; rbutler@peralta.edu
- Laney College: Douglass Cobb at (510) 464-3149; dcobb@peralta.edu
- College of Alameda: Nicole Kelly at (510) 748-5250; nkelly@peralta.edu
Ramona F. Butler
EOPS/CARE Coordinator
Berkeley City College
bcc-eops@peralta.edu