Berkeley City College Service Community

The Berkeley City College Service Community (BCCSC) brings UC Berkeley and Berkeley City College students together in service to develop leadership and assist community college students in the transfer process. Our mission is to increase support for prospective transfer students and provide them with enhanced leadership and service opportunities. We believe student involvement is crucial in the college experience and vital to producing active citizens prepared for the world. With access to education as a pressing social justice issue around the world, the BCCSC involves students in affecting the global issue of education by acting locally in their own communities.

Contact: bccserves@gmail.com 510-969-6929

Meet one-on-one with our Peer Advisors or Transfer Liaisons to connect to resources, get involved in your community, and learn about their transfer experiences. E-mail or call us today!

Attend our transfer and scholarship workshops and events. Check out the "Get Involved" tab.

Interested in getting involved in the BCC Service Community? Apply to become a Peer Advisor or Transfer Liaison in the "Get Involved" tab. Application due July 15, 2013

The Berkeley City College Service Community (BCCSC) provides transfer and scholarship workshops and events every semester. Our workshops help students become more familiar with the application process, connect students to resources, and help build a transfer community. Transfer Liaisons plan the workshops and events and share their transfer experience with students through one-on-one advising. We also have Peer Advisors who help students get involved on campus and in their communities. Please contact us at bccserves@gmail.com or 510-969-6929 for an appointment or with any questions.

Interested in becoming a Transfer Liaison? Apply here!

Interested in becoming a Peer Advisor? Apply here!

Bay Area Colleges Transfer Panel:

Wednesday, May 1st 6:00-7:30pm at BCC Room 51
Hear from our panel of successful transfer students about their transfer experience to schools in the Bay Area

Next Steps for UC Berkeley Workshop:
Thursday, May 2nd 6:00-7:30pm at BCC Room 51
Accepted into UC Berkeley? Come find out what are the next steps to take during the transfer process.

BCC Healthy Community Projects:

There are a total of fifteen students this year working on a Healthy Community Project (HCP).

The focus of the project is Youth, specifically around advocacy and empowerment.

About the project:

The Healthy Community Projects represent the civic engagement of the BCCSC. Students identify their individual vision of what a healthy community looks like. Forming groups, students discuss their individual visions and dialogue about the similarities and differences they see. Once students have a clear outline from everyone, a larger more cohesive group vision of a healthy community emerges. By discussing ways the actual community may or may not reflect this vision, students develop SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Timely) goals to target that disparity. Thinking globally and acting locally, the group spends the year planning an action, event, workshop, fundraiser, series, collective movement, or any culminating project which has solved for the SMART goals.

We are the BCC Service Community

Group Photo

Peer Advisors
Khulood is majoring in Middle eastern studies and Arabic. She wants to help make BCC a better place by uniting the students to become a stronger community.She would also like to help students find the right extracurricular activities that will fit their needs (interests or passions or something like that) and help make their college experience active and enjoyable.
Hayley Laity is a student ambassador, a senator of ASBCC, and a fellow student of BCC. Her intended majors are Economics and Business Administration, hoping to attend Cal in the Fall of 2013. If you ever see her on campus or around the city she's either studying, working with students, hitting up the Cal Rec Center or running around town. She's interested in various fields of study, activities and especially sports, so talk to her for any educational or extracurricular resources you may need.
Ghada is currently a sophomore at BCC. She is one of the seven senators in the student government, and a member of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) club. She wants to transfer to UC Berkeley, however her major is undecided for now. Her main goal that she hopes to accomplish this year is to know that she has made a difference in the academic and personal lives of the students of BCC while helping them to maintain a great grade point average! Ghada hopes to live in Yemen after she gets her Bachelors degree. After getting a bachelors degree she will study in the middle east to earn her masters degree. Aside from school, she would like to start a business or company of her own. She also wants to start an organization for disabled people in Yemen. She has many dreams she hopes to accomplish after college.
Friendly, optimistic, and full of hope for humanity, Alphonse is pursuing the field of Music Therapy to help heal the world with music. A full-time student and almost full-time employee, he has learned to manage his time wisely in order to do what he loves; which of course is music, but also the study science, philosophy, and the universe. While Alphonse plans on transferring to UCB this spring (or next) to study cognitive science and music, his passion is to help the community around him in any way possible, and is determined that nothing will get in his way!
Prema has spent her 20 years of life growing up in communities between Oakland and Berkeley. Through volunteer work and a long-term internship she found an interest in a combination of things including media, languages, and public relations. This led to her recently deciding on “Communication Studies” as her major and she is also considering a second major. Prema continues to stay engaged in the community and on the Berkeley City College campus, taking part in the University Transfer Club, an Oakland youth media team, and an internship at a non-profit that trains parents to be advocates in their childrens education.
Yolanda is a second semester sophomore and is currently applying to universities to continue her studies. She enjoys baking, watching movies, listening to a variety of music, exercising, light gardening and exploring the Bay area. Her passions include promoting quality education, decreasing teenage and unwanted pregnancies and breaking down the barriers of 'math-haters'. She is experienced in the application processes of EOPS, TRiO and general financial aid, including the loan process, so if you have any questions, come by and see her!

Transfer Liaisons
Meryl was born and raised in Marin County, CA. After she graduated from high school, she took a year off to work before she decide to return to school at College of Marin. Meryl has been envolved in community service from elementary school on and has found that her life has been enriched by the experiences in an unsurpassed way. At College of Marin she was President of Alpha Gamma Sigma Honor Society, a service based Honor Society. Meryl received her A.A. in Social and Behavioral Sciences before she transfered to UC Berkeley in 2011, where she expects to graduate in Spring 2013. She is a History Major, with a concentration in Religion, and a Classics Minor. She is very interested in other places and cultures, and loves to study different languages. Last summer she traveled to Greece where she and her fellow students from around the U.S took part in an archeological dig at Bronze Age Mycenae and Archaic Nemea. After graduation, Meryl hopes to take a year off and travel and teach English in Asia, before returning to the U.S. for Graduate School.
Elizabeth is a senior Philosophy major at UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in Bakersfield, CA and transferred from Bakersfield College. As a community college student, Elizabeth worked as a peer tutor and mentor and volunteered with the Farm Workers Association in Bakersfield. Elizabeth is applying to begin law school in the Fall of 2013. She aspires to study critical race theory and public interest law. Elizabeth currently works at the UC Berkeley Recreational Center and is particularly interested in health, fitness, and nutrition. For fun, Elizabeth enjoys outdoor activities and going on random adventures in San Francisco and throughout the Bay Area.

Program Coordinator

Adena is a BCC alumni and a current a senior at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. She is originally from Southern California, but moved to the bay area for school. While at BCC, Adena was president of the Civic Engagement Club, business manager for the UC Berkeley art and culture publication, Connect the Dots, a Writing Workshop tutor, and a mentor at Emerson Elementary school. After transferring, Adena became one of the first Transfer Liaisons with the BCC Service Community and continued her work with Connect the Dots. She strongly believes in everyone's ability to transfer and in the powerful effect that public service work can have on a person's life. If it weren't for her involvement in the community, she would not be where she is today. In the future, Adena is planning to use her business degree to open a community grocery store in Berkeley that will provide organic, local produce, along with other grocery items, to lower and middle income families. The store would also include a kitchen where cooking classes would be held for children, teens, and adults.