City College of S.F. avoids deep cuts for now, but long-term future is cloudy
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A rally outside Mission High School last week protests proposed cuts to City College of San Francisco.Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Student protesters call out trustees of City College of San Francisco, who authorized sending pink slips to more than 600 full- and part-time instructors to help close a $35 million shortfall.Tenaya LaforeShow MoreShow Less
City College of San Francisco and its faculty union headed off drastic layoffs and class cuts for at least a year over the weekend, after marathon negotiations meant to stave off the largest downsizing in the school’s history.
The trustees of City College of San Francisco are calling on state lawmakers to pass a bill that would end deadnaming trans and nonbinary college students on their diplomas and other academic records. The public community college adopted such a policy in 2020.
The community college board unanimously voted 7-0 at its January 28 meeting to adopt a resolution in support of Assembly Bill 245. Trustee Tom Temprano, a gay man who is vice president of the board, introduced it, as the Bay Area Reporter s Political Notebook first reported this week.
Board President Shanell Williams, who is bisexual, and student Trustee Vick Van Chung, who is genderqueer, cowrote the resolution with Temprano. At the meeting the other four trustees asked to be added as cosponsors at the request of Chung.