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In March, the student services monthly newsletter brought long-awaited news for transgender students and faculty. Admissions and Records updated their process on students wanting to change their name to their preferred name, making it much more simple and quick. The newsletter read…

@nick__despo Las Positas College is sponsoring an air quality resolution plan, created by LPC Student Government Student Trustee Garrett Culbertson, that provides LPC and Chabot College with N95 respirator masks for staff and students when air quality conditions are considered unhealthy. Poor air…

@nick__despo On Feb. 14, 2019, California State Senator Connie Leyva D-Chino introduced Senate Bill 291. If it passes, eligible students at Las Positas College will be assessed for financial aid based on entire costs of living and attending, opposed to just tuition…

Spring semester of 2019 marks the first time that teachers will be recording students taking online tests-- while students are in their homes.   Proctorio, the controversial online software being adopted by Las Positas, has sparked protest from students and faculty alike.…

Las Positas College is getting a facelift.  On Feb. 6, as part of the Town Hall meeting, Las Positas hosted an open house in the tutorial center (2401) where plans for new buildings were posted. The budget for the remodel, which includes…

The District is now on its third interim chancellor in six months. Thomas Fallo, who served as interim during the fall semester, is out as the fill-in leader of the Chabot-Las Positas Community College District. Ronald Gerhard, previously the Vice Chancellor of…

Emily Forschen @Emilyschen There were six or seven people filing out of the conference room of Interim President Roanna Bennie’s office on Jan. 24. They had just exited a meeting, planning this semester’s commencement ceremony. The room filled with noise as they all spoke…

Emily Forschen @Emilyschen It was lit on campus Friday morning. “The moment I entered the parking lot," first-year student Jacqueline Thach said, "I started to smell smoke.” A student's car caught fire on Friday, Jan. 25 around 10:30 a.m. in parking lot D in front of…

In November of this year, two fires broke out in Los Angeles and Butte County, named the Camp Fire and Woolsey Fire. The fires, which were among the deadliest in California’s history, devastated over 200,000 acres, killed 88 people combined and even closed…