The Saga of San Francisco’s City College..

‘There are no clear answers to the question of where City College of San Francisco’s 85,000 students will go if the college shuts down next year. That unprecedented and nightmarish scenario became a real possibility last week when the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges voted to strip the college of its accreditation in June 2014”.

“City College is San Francisco’s only two-year institution. No nearby community college is in a good position to run the college, which is California’s largest. And the idea of turning over control to another two-year college is not considered viable by college and state officials, sources said, in part because the commission does not favor it”.

“The college has a month to request a review by the accreditor. It plans to pursue one, according to a college spokeswoman. A review, however, would result in an overturned decision only if City College was able to prove that the commission made procedural errors with its decision to yank the college’s accreditation”.

“That seems unlikely given that the commission found 12 unresolved problem areas among the 14 it identified last year. Those lingering deficiencies include dangerously low cash reserves, weak leadership, acrimony among faculty members and trustees, inadequate student support services and a failure to track and measure student learning, according to the commission”.

Read the whole thing: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/07/08/san-francisco-community-colleges-fight-survival-may-hinge-appeal

There seems to be a lot of scrambling about what to do or whether anything should be done at this time. Whatever happens, I hope that the 85,000 students will be taken care of, and will not suffer.

 

In the end, it is all about the students

Dr Flavius A B Akerele III

The ETeam