Save CCSF Meeting
Wednesday, February 6th 2013  6:00pm
San Francisco, CA

http://www.saveccsf.org

Students, staff, faculty, and community are joining together in the fight to save City College of San Francisco from closure. You are invited to the launch of the campus/community coalition. CCSF is a great school but the forces of privatization want to step in to change its mission. This fight is not about a dysfunctional school; it is about the austerity-driven plan to destroy public education and replace it with for-profit schools. Already, programs and services have been cut, classified staff have been laid off, computer labs closed, and faculty and staff wages cut. The Community College Board that is supposed to govern CCSF has agreed to a $1000/day Special Trustee whose job is to ensure that the austerity changes are pushed through. The interim chancellor, Dr. Scott-Skillman has announced that Measure A funds, which were earmarked to “offset budget cuts, prevent layoffs, provide affordable quality education…” will not be used for educational purposes. This is in direct opposition to the wishes of 73% of San Francisco voters who passed the measure. CCSF is the largest community college in the country, with a proud track record of successfully preparing students to transfer to 4-year colleges. CCSF graduates prepare food in the finest restaurants, work as nurses and radiologists in the best hospitals, and thousands of immigrants learn to speak English and older adults benefit from the myriad of courses designed for them. But all of these accomplishments are threatened for next year’s students. ACCJC, a privately funded organization that determines which schools are accredited, has pressured CCSF to accept extreme cuts in order to continue to exist. This is intolerable! Inspired by the Chicago teachers’ strike and the Quebec students who won the repeal of tuition hikes, a movement to defend CCSF is growing. San Franciscans want and need CCSF to continue being a beacon of higher education for immigrants, women, people of color, queers, seniors, the unemployed, and working people. The faculty/staff and student coalitions have joined together to form a campus/community coalition to defend the college. All members of the Bay Area community are invited to attend to learn more about what’s happening at CCSF and to help plan the fightback. Bring your ideas!

Location:
City College of San Francisco
1125 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA