By Shamey Cramer If not for LACC, President Obama wouldn’t have invited me to the Oval Office. In 1984 I began taking classes at LA City College in hopes of getting my Associate Arts degree and transferring to a four-year school for a degree in Film and Television. One year later, I was informed I only had six months to three years to live because I was HIV-positive. I dropped out of school and returned to Chicago to be...
“I believe that there is a fire that is burning deep down in the depths of our souls that reminds us each and every day that we were meant to do better. Let that fire continue to run wild. Let it run wild all the way down to your spirit and allow yourself to be a wildfire.” – Henry Brown ‘14 LACC Student Speaker Henry Brown 2014 from LACC Foundation on Vimeo.
June 2014 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Los Angeles City College Registered Nursing Program. In all, 16 cohorts of students have graduated — adding 423 registered nurses to the health care community! In celebration of its ten-year anniversary, the program has created A Nurse’s Mission, its first alumni-to-student scholarship program with funds donated from Frances Rice-Farrand, LACC educator, and Camille Diaz, 2004 Class President. Nursing professionals make a difference in the lives of patients every day. Now you...
Los Angeles City College’s Mathematics Club has won this year’s National Championship in the annual American Mathematical Association of Two Year Colleges’ (AMATYC) mathematics competition. About 200 colleges across the country participated, including the majority here in Southern California. The AMATYC is a two-part competition — one test in November and one in March — referred to as Round I and Round II. Each competitor’s scores are added for the annual competition. In each Round of the competition, the...
By Jocelyn Graf For the spring semester, Los Angeles City College, with the help of a generous grant from the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, launched the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) Academy, an invaluable resource for students who hope to transfer to a four-year college to earn a bachelor’s degree in a STEM major. One hundred students have already signed up for the new academy, which provides services that include academic counseling, tutoring, an engineering fabrication lab and skills...
“I have been awarded a better life through educational opportunity, and for that I thank LACC and the Los Angeles Community College District.” On Thursday, June 12th Los Angeles City College proudly awarded alumnus and current student, Henry Walton, with an A.A. degree. Henry’s connection with LACC began 56 years ago in 1958, when he decided to take a photography course. From his home in South Central he took the ‘V’ car to get to LACC, which in his...
Whether you are heading off to a four-year college or university or launching your career, you have earned the right to call yourself a LACC alumnus. So now what? Join the LACC Alumni Association! Join an exclusive network of thousands who have traveled in your shoes and have become successful. Connect with other alumni, register for upcoming events and access your alumni benefits. You can get great discounts and message your classmates!
On May 8, 2014, students and alumni gathered at El Camino Theatre to hear from young professionals with recent experience breaking into, and successfully navigating, the entertainment industry. Attendees received valuable information from the following entertainment industry insiders: Jesse Daniels – Manager of Development, Maverick Productions (reality programming), former development assistant at Mark Burnett Productions. Natalie Hayden – Manager, Paramount Music, former assistant to Adam Goodman, president of production for Paramount Alex Reid – screenwriter (Kickball: The Movie for...
May is Foster Care Awareness Month. Like 125 students in LACC’s Guardian Scholars Program, alumna Rosie Perez is a product of the foster care system. Rosie has recently written about her childhood and early career in an autobiography, ‘Handbook for An Unpredictable Life’. In honor of Rosie Perez’ struggle, Foster Care Awareness Month, and the 125 students on campus who are current or former foster youth, please donate to our Guardian Scholars Program. Your support provides them with individualized...
June 2014 marks the ten-year anniversary of the Los Angeles City College Registered Nursing Program. In all, 16 cohorts of students have graduated — adding 423 registered nurses to the health care community! In celebration of its ten-year anniversary, the program has created A Nurse’s Mission, its first alumni-to-student scholarship program with funds donated from Frances Rice-Farrand, LACC educator, and Camille Diaz, 2004 Class President. Nursing professionals make a difference in the lives of patients every day. Now you...
