For the third could i just read one of them, the best one . Just one. Okay, just one. This is from my next door neighbor. There are world class instructors teaching at city college, graduating High School Students deserve their expertise. The problem ccsf faces in regard to the budget need to be addressed needs to be addressed in other ways, not by compromising its accreditation. And she was a student at city college and shes a High School Teacher. And i got these comments to give to accjc and they just ignored it. So, could you make copies and give it to all your compatriots . Thank you. Next speaker. applause hi, my name is patrick [speaker not understood]. Im a former [speaker not understood] student. Im a pretty quiet person so i dont really speak up a lot but i feel like this is important so i wanted to make a few comments as well. I want to reiterate what some people said. Its really difficult helping [speaker not understood] inter disciplinary studies. Im helping out with enroll
Accjc is a nonstate agency lacking adequate state accountability and has unleashed authority to oversee state funded Community Collegeses. It is also a bureaucratic mess of contradictions. While the Community College faculty staff and administrators are being forced to ban their normal student and campus responsibilities in order to comply with unsubstantiated accjc mandates. When did a Community College become based more on the institutions governance process, which is thank you dedicated by california state laws and less on the quality of education being provided . These are important questions that we believe the state audit will answer and im honored to be joined by [speaker not understood] in this effort to examine whether our Community Colleges and students are being treated fairly, consistently and without bias. We ask for your support to ensure our safe public Community Colleges are not being forced to waste [speaker not understood] through the fees and taxpayer dollars. [inaud
To move from point b to point a, that work still needs to be accomplished and it needs to be accomplished as quickly as possible so that we meet the accreditation standards. And thats what we are all focused on, is meeting the accreditation standards as quickly as possible while we pursue the review and appeal process so that they can reconsider their decision. Our focus right now is very much so, there is a review and appeal process going on and there is also the work that the trustee is doing to hopefully maintain accreditation. With the college. I mean, its not just hes helping to expedite the decisionmaking processes, but its really the college pulling together to implement the action plan that we set forth to meet the accreditation standards. And, so, is the trustee supporting the review and appeal process . Hes working under that rubric . Yes. The special fruit trustee is working closely with the state chancellors office, working with our chancellor ~ hes going to be meeting with
Theyre going to city college and i dont want to lose city college. I know i want to have education for my kids [speaker not understood]. All the students so i will support city college. Please keep open. Thank you. applause im going to call a few more cards. Alvin jah. Renato [speaker not understood]. Gordon mcclellan. Patrick [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. And kabin baras. Okay. Hello, thank you very much for having this meeting. We really need it. My name is holman turner, im a professional photographer. I also teach at city college. Ive done that for the past 17 years. So, ~ somehow i fell in love with students and they fell in love with me. And for months ive been Walking Around as if this was something surreal, that we could actually be thinking about shutting down city college. For months i kept asking myself if the accreditation firm that is seeking to close city college is so interested in the quality of their education, how could they possibly even conside
Against city college ~ and political pressure on sacramento and our state legislators to restore the master plan for Higher Education [speaker not understood]. Thank you. applause hello, everyone. My name is [speaker not understood]. Im part of students making change. Im also part of the student involvement [speaker not understood] undocumented student club on campus. And i just want to talk about the reality that a lot of people have been avoiding about city college of San Francisco. As a student ive been part of this city college for two years. I just recently finished all my studies last semester. But, you know, like a lot of things are happening here, you know, there are a lot of problems in city college like we have bathrooms that havent been fixed. We have [speaker not understood]. We also have a lot of resistance in terms like a couple years ago we had our Resource Center being requested by undocumented students and, you know, it was really sad to walk in the halls and see peopl