LAFAYETTE, Calif. – The man asked me sharply, “Have you served our country?” It was clear from Glen’s voice that he didn’t think I had, and I don’t blame him. Still relatively young, skinny, with long ...

Diablo Valley College is now the fourth top-ranked community college in California and ranks number one statewide in transfers to four-year schools. That’s according to recent reports by ...

Professor Robert Hawkins has much to be proud of. After winning the college district’s Teacher of the Year award in 2023, and watching his students take home gold medals from the recent national ...

For decades, Diablo Valley College has hosted a non-credit program called College for Kids (CFK) during summer break, serving elementary and middle school students. Community education, on the other ...

A sexual harassment investigation into former Contra Costa Community College District Governing Board President Tim Farley halted when he resigned last month. The investigation was sparked by an ...

White flight from urban areas in the 1950s and 60s devastated many communities across the U.S., including here. As people of color moved into cities such as Oakland, white people fled to suburbs as ...

As students and faculty bid farewell to President Susan Lamb, who is retiring from Diablo Valley College following the spring semester, many have taken a moment to reflect on her remarkable journey ...

For Dimitri Hiyood, a 35-year-old trans man and history major at Cal State East Bay, 2020 began as a good year. After eight months as a homeless student, first living under deplorable conditions in a ...

When Captain Brett Crozier, Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt, emailed a letter to 20 of his peers and direct superiors requesting to dock his ship in Guam following the ...

Mojdeh Mehdizadeh, the 10th chancellor of the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD), immigrated from Iran to the United States when she was eight years old, and still recalls the scrutiny she ...

But as time went on, Sorce felt the need to speak out about what she saw as some of Vallejo’s most problematic issues, from government corruption to lack of police accountability. Sorce, who was hired ...

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, states the 10th leading cause of death in the United States to be suicide. While 2017 accounted for over 40,000 American suicides–and in the same year, ...