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Merritt College is a public community college in Oakland, California, United States. Merritt, like the other three campuses of the Peralta Community College District , is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges .
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In 1965, a bond issue was passed which established a new downtown Oakland campus building for Laney College (opened in 1970), a new campus for Merritt College (opened in 1971), and the founding of the College of Alameda. Berkeley City College was established in 1974 and operated under the name Vista Community College until 2006, when it began ...
Samuel Merritt University (SMU) is a private university focused on health sciences with its main campus in Oakland, California, and other facilities in Sacramento, San Mateo and Fresno. It was an affiliate of the Sutter Health Network and Alta Bates Summit Medical Center until it disaffiliated in January, 2022, becoming a wholly independent ...
"Lake Merritt" is used to refer to the lake itself, and to the residential neighborhoods and commercial districts in its vicinity. Adams Point; Eastlake/Merritt; Grand Lake (A portmanteau of Grand and Lakeshore Avenues) Lake Merritt (the body of water) Lakeside Apartments District; Westlake/Oak Glen Park
Holy Names University's campus is located on a wooded, sixty-acre site in the East Oakland Hills about 2.5 miles southeast of the Montclair district. [12] To the north of campus lies the neighborhood of Woodminster, and the City of Oakland's 500 acre Joaquin Miller Park.
Laney College, with more than 12,000 students, is located on Fallon Street near the Lake Merritt BART station. Other educational institutions include Lincoln University , a small business school catering mainly to international students, and a downtown office of Cal State East Bay .
The BART Operations Control Center, located adjacent to the station. The construction of Lake Merritt station and the adjacent BART Administration Building leveled three blocks of Chinatown – one of several major displacements in the area, along with I-880, Laney College, and the Oakland Museum of California, that took place in the mid-20th century. [6]