"The college could close for having too strong a union and too many free classes."

[Scuba]

http://www.labornotes.org/2013/08/san-francisco-students-sit-save-beloved-community-college

San Francisco Students Sit In to Save Beloved Community College



The much-loved, low-tuition community college may shut down in July 2014. It’s the target of an unusually frank attack from an unexpected source, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.

ACCJC doesn’t claim any problems with quality of instruction. Rather, CCSF apparently treats its employees too well and gives away too much free community service.

If stripped of accreditation, the college and its 110,000 students would lose access to local, state, and federal funding.

A “czar” assigned by the state community colleges chancellor has been given “extraordinary powers” and has dismissed the elected board of trustees.

[snot]

1. K&R'd.

[Starry Messenger]

2. k&r

[hobbit709]

3. WTF?

Once again excellence is punished and mediocrity is rewarded.

[sweetapogee]

4. google is our friend...

...sometimes. Anyway, lots O' links.

http://www.sfgate.com/citycollegeofsfaccrediation/

[LWolf]

5. I hope the school gets enough support

from the community to make the ACCJC back down.

[n2doc]

6. They need to raise tuition and hire a bunch more administrators

Then they will be fine!

[Ed Suspicious]

9. That seems to be the message. How pathetic.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. This is about fiscal insolvency. Here's a good article summarizing:

http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/City-College-near-bankruptcy-audit-says-3875651.php

City College of San Francisco is perilously close to bankruptcy, in part because it employs nearly twice as many faculty as similar colleges and pays them better - yet educates no more students on average, says a new financial analysis of the state's largest public school.

The college got into trouble because, unlike other colleges, it failed to make the budget cuts necessary to keep up with reductions in state funding, never set aside money for its growing retirement obligations, and "has provided salary increases and generous benefits with no discernible means to pay for them," says the review by the state's Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team, authorized by state law to help public schools in financial trouble.

[blackspade]

10. This article is from mid 2012 before Prop A was passed in SF.

That money that was supposed to go to the school was diverted for other 'things'.

So no, it is not about insolvency, it is about diverting public money and students into private hands and high rate student loans.

[blackspade]

8. WTF is this bullshit?

[ctsnowman]

11. K & R

[limpyhobbler]

12. What bullshit.

[grilled onions]

13. Learning/Teaching Is The Enemy

At all costs they must punish those who wish to learn/who wish to teach. Those minds are meant to think but only BELIEVE in what our "masters" tell them to. A free thinking society is a danger to those in charge of this three ring circus.

[niyad]

14. k and r for another assault on the commons

[Recursion]

15. It's also in receivership

Though the CC problem funding problem is statewide.