“Enough is enough, we want our city college back,” Chris Jackson, City College of San Francisco Board of Trustee member, said at the March 14 Save CCSF rally. “We want City College to reflect the values that we have all have fought so dearly and sweated so much for.”
More than 500 students, teachers and community members rallied at City Hall to protest the cuts made at CCSF, in response to the threat of losing accreditation. The diversity of the crowd was evident with signs written in various languages—from Mandarin to Spanish— soliciting City Hall to stop cuts with Proposition A funds.
In attendance was San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi who said, “Access to quality education is only affordable through City College, if you compromise that, you compromise San Francisco[‘s] commitment to proper reentry and as Sheriff I can’t allow that.”
CCSF submitted its show cause report on March 15 to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The ACCJC will conduct a follow up inspection in April and make a decision in June.
Meanwhile, registration for the summer session begins April 15. CCSF spokesman Larry Kamer said City College will serve more students than past summer sessions by tracking what classes are needed and taken most, in hopes of proving to the commission that it is deserving of accreditation.
The college’s diversity departments contend they face the threat of extinction, calling an April 9 Media Briefing at CCSF’s Mission campus that will shed light on their concerns. For more information please call (415) 517-4426.