This hearing, but its really important to you as elected officials do a little extra, if you can, to try to Save City College. Thank you very much. applause thank you. Next speaker, please. [speaker not understood], my name is alvin shaw. I have four points to make. The first item is the purpose of accreditation. Secondly, the punishment to fit the crime. Thirdly, some comments from my neighbors. And finally, what i feel is the role city and government officials in this situation. Okay. In terms of the purpose of accreditation, i used to be a muni driver, also a streetcar and bus instructor. And a couple of concepts that we have is what we call big picture and tunnel vision. So, the big picture is whats the purpose of accreditation . According to federal law, the purpose of accreditation is to guarantee or assure the quality of education for students who get federal money. Okay. And this is in the law. Its in section 60 2 of the 34 cfr, okay. Everything else that an accrediting agency
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 consider putting 85,000 of them out on the street . The answer, of course, is contained in the question. Only by putting them in the street coul
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 enrollment. You can check online and see how many students are enrolled. We
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 enrollment. You can check online and see how many students are enrolled. We look at it, and
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 enrollment. You can check online