Laney College is a community college located in Oakland, California, next to the Lake Merritt BART station and the Kaiser Convention Center. Laney is the largest of the four colleges of the Peralta Community College District which serves northern Alameda County. Laney College is named after Joseph Clarence Laney Laney College originally opened in 1953 as Oakland City College, at the former University High School campus (which operated from 1923 to 1948).