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Written by: Editor

Published: 24 July 2011

 

 

 

 

CAMBRIDGE, MA – Lakeport, Calif., native Kevin Cooper, a 2003 graduate of Clear Lake High School, graduated this spring from Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass.

 

At Harvard Law, Cooper worked with two of his classmates to establish a new student-edited law journal, the Harvard Business Law Review.

The Business Law Review was praised by the school’s dean for filling a void in both the student community and academic environment at Harvard, by providing students and professors with a collaborative environment to address important issues of corporate law and financial regulation.

Its first issue, titled “Dodd-Frank and the Future of Financial Regulation,” recently was published.

Cooper also excelled academically at Harvard. He graduated magna cum laude, ranking in the top 10 percent of his graduating class of 600 students.

During his second year at Harvard Law School, he won the school’s prestigious Sears Prize as a student with one of the top two grade point averages that year.

In light of these accomplishments, Cooper was one of seven graduates profiled on Harvard Law School’s Web site (www.law.harvard.edu) last month.

After taking the bar exam in July, Cooper will join the New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as an associate in the corporate department.

Wachtell Lipton is one of the world’s leading law firms in mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and takeover defense, corporate and securities law, and corporate governance.

Cooper spent the summer after his second year at Harvard as a summer associate at Wachtell Lipton and the summer after his first year as an intern at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

Cooper was born and raised in Lakeport. He attended Lakeport schools from kindergarten through 12th grade and worked at Disney Water Sports during his high school summers.

Upon graduating in 2003 from Clear Lake High School, where he was a three-sport athlete and one of the class’s valedictorians, he attended California State University, Fresno.

Cooper played football for the Bulldogs on an athletic scholarship and graduated in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration.

After earning a master's of business administration from CSU Fresno’s Craig School of Business and working for two years in the Central Valley, he moved to the East Coast to attend Harvard Law in the fall of 2008.

 

He is the son of Lakeport residents Brian and Theresa Everhart and brother of Angela Everhart, who graduated from Clear Lake High School this year. Brian Everhart is the engineering technician for the city of Lakeport.

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Written by: Editor

Published: 21 July 2011

MARYSVILLE, Calif. – The California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office recently informed the Yuba Community College District (YCCD) that it has approved Woodland Community College’s associate in arts for transfer (AA-T) degrees in communication studies and psychology, and similarly approved Yuba College’s AA-T degree in Sociology.

In addition, both Woodland Community College and Yuba College are awaiting approval of an associate in science for transfer (AS-T) degree in mathematics.

These transfer degrees in communication studies, psychology, sociology and mathematics are but the

start, with more transfer degrees being considered.

Senate Bill 1440 (Padilla), the Student Transfer and Achievement Reform Act (The Star Act), was signed into law in September of last year and directed community colleges to create and grant associate degrees for transfer by the start of the 2011-12 academic year.

To earn an associate degree for transfer a student must complete 60 semester units that are eligible for transfer to the California State University System (CSU). If a student completes the 60 transferable units with a minimum GPA of 2.0, then he or she is guaranteed admission to CSU.

“We are extremely excited to be offering these new transfer degrees to our students for the upcoming academic year,” said Dr. Beatriz Espinoza, vice chancellor of educational planning and services for YCCD.

“Creating a vehicle for our students to simultaneously attain their associate’s degree and guarantee them admission as a junior at CSU is truly an efficient transfer practice that is long overdue, one which will improve student success, transfer rates and the number of well-trained graduates able to immediately enter the workforce,” Espinoza added.

For more information on the associate degrees for transfer offered at YCCD students should visit a counselor at WCC or Yuba College and/or visit the colleges’ Web sites at http://wcc.yccd.edu or http://yc.yccd.edu .

The Yuba Community College District spans eight counties and nearly 4,200 square miles of territory in rural, north-central California. It has colleges in Marysville and Woodland, an educational center in Clearlake, outreach operations at Beale Air Force Base and in Williams, and will be adding an outreach facility in Sutter County as part of the Measure J facilities bond.

For more information about YCCD please visit our website at www.yccd.edu.

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Published: 15 July 2011

NORTH COAST, Calif. – Student registration and enrollment has begun for the Northern California’s premier tuition-free, online school for students in kindergarten through 12th grades – Lost Coast Virtual Academy.

Limited student openings are available from the following counties: Humboldt, Mendocino, Trinity, Tehama, Glenn, Lake and Sonoma.

Lost Coast Virtual Academy creates innovative education options for students in kindergarten through 12th grades whose families desire an exciting new alternative to traditional school.

Participating families will benefit from:

• California-state approved curriculum, and learning materials shipped directly to each student’s home;

• Highly qualified, state-certified teachers who give students the one-to-one attention they need to succeed;

• Flexibility in scheduling and pacing; and

• Socialization and enrichment activities via Leggett Valley Unified School District.

Lost Coast Virtual Academy teachers provide instruction, assign lessons, and interact with students and parents through e-mail, online discussion, telephone and face-to-face meetings.

Such tailored learning programs address individual student needs like advanced learners, home school families, homebound children, working students and bullied children.

For more information visit the following Web pages:

• Who we are? http://www.k12local.com/lostcoast/who-we-are

• How it works? http://www.k12local.com/lostcoast/who-we-are/how-it-works

• How to enroll? http://www.k12local.com/lostcoast/how-to-enroll/

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