Laney and Merritt colleges, the two largest schools in the East Bay’s Peralta Community College District, should merge and be renamed “Oakland City College,” the district’s chancellor is expected to recommend to its trustees.
“I will be recommending that we really have a focused conversation about unifying Laney and Merritt as ‘Oakland City College,’” Chancellor Tammeil Gilkerson said in a Thursday address to a staff meeting, according to a video provided by the district.
Laney College’s student newspaper, the Citizen, first reported Gilkerson’s plans on Friday…