{"id":21362,"date":"2013-07-19T13:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=21362"},"modified":"2013-07-19T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T20:23:00","slug":"ccsf-advocates-question-legitimacy-of-accreditation-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/ccsf-advocates-question-legitimacy-of-accreditation-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"CCSF: Advocates question legitimacy of accreditation commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_21363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21363\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21363\" alt=\"Manifestantes muestran su apoyo durante la marcha Save CCSF. Participants show their support during the Save CCSF Coalition march on Tuesday, July 9. Photo Shane Menez\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_01web.jpg?resize=800%2C531&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_01web.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_01web.jpg?resize=600%2C398&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_01web.jpg?resize=360%2C238&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manifestantes muestran su apoyo durante la marcha Save CCSF. Participants show their support during the Save CCSF Coalition march on Tuesday, July 9. Photo Shane Menez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Days after City College of San Francisco was notified that its accreditation will likely be revoked next year, supporters of public education took to the streets, their chants fueled by outrage and disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important to understand that this decision is not yet final,\u201d said Lalo Gonzalez, member of Save CCSF, a coalition of students, staff and faculty members who organized in response to the accreditation crisis. \u201cI think this (protest) is a great representation of how mad the city is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), a private accrediting agency that is authorized by the U.S. Department of Education (ED), announced its decision to \u201cterminate accreditation, effective July 31, 2014,\u201d in a written statement addressed to Interim Chancellor Thelma Scott-Skillman on July 3.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before the July 9 protest, the CCSF Board of Trustees\u2014deemed ineffective\u2014was replaced by a state-appointed special trustee, Bob Agrella, who was granted sole decision-making power over the college.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21365\" style=\"margin: 8px;\" alt=\"mission-ccsf_03\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mission-ccsf_03.jpg?resize=442%2C269&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"442\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mission-ccsf_03.jpg?w=612&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mission-ccsf_03.jpg?resize=600%2C364&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/mission-ccsf_03.jpg?resize=360%2C218&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/>Despite proactively working to meet the ACCJC\u2019s demands, members of the dismantled governing board stand now side by side with students, faculty, and staff to call the commission\u2019s legitimacy into question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the ACCJC was irresponsible and wrong,\u201d said Trustee Rafael Mandelman. \u201cI am going to do whatever I can over the next year to make sure that City College stays open and ACCJC shuts down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ACCJC placed the college on a show-cause sanction July 2012, citing major managerial and financial shortcomings. Of the 14 recommendations that the school needed to correct in order to remain accredited, only two were met, according to various reports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Union files complaint against accreditors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In April, the California Federation of Teachers (CFT) and AFT 2121, the school\u2019s faculty union, challenged the Commission\u2019s actions by filing a third party comment and complaint with the commission and ED.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The ACCJC) is overreaching what their focus is supposed to be on, which is quality of education, and they are discussing how much teachers are being paid,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cWe believe that it is an illegitimate institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The complaint includes charges that the commission operated under a conflict of interest\u2014Peter Crabtree, the husband of ACCJC President Barbara Beno, was part of a team of reviewers that visited CCSF earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>ED released a statement promising to \u201cthoroughly review\u201d the complaint, stating that even though ED does not have authority to \u201creverse, revise, vacate&#8230; or dictate\u201d the accrediting comission\u2019s decision, CCSF may \u201cappeal an adverse accrediting action for review by an independent appeals body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Member\u2019s of Save CCSF argue that the commission\u2019s main focus should be on the quality of education and programs that benefit the community\u2014including English as a Second Language (ESL), Lifelong Learning, and GED programs\u2014and that pressuring the school to meet ACCJC\u2019s standards has caused more harm than good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about academic performance, it\u2019s not about supporting the students, it\u2019s not about funding&#8230;this is about profits,\u201d said CCSF Student Trustee Shanell Williams. \u201cThis is going to open up the floodgates for us to really start fighting against the privatization of our public resources.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_21368\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21368\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21368  \" style=\"margin: 8px;\" alt=\"Manifestantes muestran su apoyo durante la marcha Save CCSF. Participants show their support during the Save CCSF Coalition march on Tuesday, July 9. Photo Shane Menez\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_04web.jpg?resize=480%2C319&#038;quality=89&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_04web.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_04web.jpg?resize=600%2C398&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CCSF_04web.jpg?resize=360%2C238&amp;quality=89&amp;ssl=1 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-21368\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manifestantes muestran su apoyo durante la marcha Save CCSF. Participants show their support during the Save CCSF Coalition march on Tuesday, July 9. Photo Shane Menez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>School to be stripped of core values<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The approximately one thousand protesters who gathered at the Downtown campus, represented only a sliver of the 85,000 students and 3,000 faculty currently in jeopardy of losing their jobs and access to affordable higher education in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s discouraging to see that the interest rate (for student loans) went up on July 1, and then to see this happen,\u201d said Mari Garcia, who plans to enroll at CCSF in the Fall. \u201cIf CCSF really does close, then thousands of students\u2014elderly students, young students, immigrants\u2014where are they going to go?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CCSF community has fought long and hard to ensure diversity, access and opportunity throughout its campuses.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, the California Master Plan for Higher Education set the tone for a level of commitment to ensuring access to higher education\u2014values reflected by the programs offered at CCSF.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, signed into law during the administration of Gov. Pat Brown, established a framework for the University of California, California State University, and California Community College systems, ensuring the availability of higher education \u201cto all, regardless of their economic means\u201d and stressing that \u201cacademic progress should only be limited by individual proficiency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Josh Pechthalt, president of CFT, explains how it \u201cwas a vision of free and low cost education\u2014(for) those who needed to get a degree, seniors who wanted to come back and learn&#8230;veterans coming back, workers who needed more skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing that for 50 years&#8230;but this commission has decided to \u2026 change the vision of higher education for California. We cannot allow that to stand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>CCSF supporters are urging state legislator involvement in what many assert is a national agenda of privatizing public education that has befallen the college.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s part of a national plan to attack public education,\u201d said Bill Shields, chair of Labor and Community Studies at CCSF. \u201cThis is what happened in Chicago\u2014the mayor took away power from the elected board, closed down a whole lot of schools in Latino and African American neighborhoods&#8230;slated for gentrifying development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really important to understand that this decision is not yet final,\u201d said Lalo Gonzalez, member of Save CCSF, a coalition of students, staff and faculty members who organized in response to the accreditation crisis. \u201cI think this (protest) is a great representation of how mad the city is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2458,2459,2460,958,2461,2457],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-21362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-accrediting-commission-for-community-and-junior-colleges-accjc","tag-aft-2121","tag-california-federation-of-teachers-cft","tag-ccsf","tag-ccsf-board-of-trustees","tag-save-ccsf","entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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