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Salary Cuts Buy Time for Fiscal Solution

August 25, 2021September 14, 2021 The Guardsman AFT2121, Tom Temprano, Gordon Mar, Alan Wong, Annette Mullaney, Malaika Finkelstein, Layoffs, board of trustees, Hilary Ronen, budget cuts, WERF, Board of Supervisors, Max Hollinger

The faculty’s salary concessions will save jobs and classes for the 2021-22 academic year. However, the agreement may only delay cuts.

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Administration Asks City for $30 Million in Emergency Aid

April 28, 2021 The Guardsman class cuts, Malaika Finkelstein, shanell williams, Erin Blackwell, AFT2121, Layoffs, Thea Selby, Mary Bravewoman, Free City, Financial Crisis and Management Assistance Team, Tom Temprano, Gordon Mar, board of trustees, Hillary Ronen, budget, Rajen Vurdien, Board of Supervisors, Annette Mullaney

The request asks San Francisco for $15 million a year for the next two years and could be introduced to the Board of Supervisors as early as April 27.

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Indigenous Peoples of the Bay Area: A History of Survival

February 9, 2021February 10, 2021 The Guardsman Missions, Board of Supervisors, Mission System, history, Junipero Serra, indigenous, Catholic Church, Mexico, Spain, Costanoan, Indigenous peoples, Costeño, bay area, Land Acknowledgement, san francisco, Ramaytush, ohlone, Chochenyo, oakland, Huichun, california

Given the massive diversity in languages, family groups, customs, and cultures, the native people of the northern and central California coasts likely would not have seen themselves as belonging to any single common group prior to the arrival of the Spanish. To some degree, this persists today, with many local Indigenous people self-identifying primarily as members of one or more of approximately 58 distinct regional cultures that are grouped under the umbrella-term “Ohlone.”

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Drastic cuts across the board to address College’s “dire fiscal emergency” in approved Multi-Year Budget and Enrollment Plan

November 19, 2020November 23, 2020 The Guardsman Tom Boegel, Wynd Kaufman, Rick Baum, Alison Datz, Simon Hanson, Malaika Finkelstein, Kathleen White, budget, Participatory Governance Council, Daina Medvedor Koziot, Board of Supervisors, Vick Van Chung, enrollment, Rajen Vurdien, accreditation, Annette Mullaney, ACCJC, Enrollment Management Committee, AFT2121, Jill Yee, Dianna Gonzales, Multi-Year Budget and Enrollment

Facing budget constraints and continued accreditation pressures, the College’s Multi-Year Budget and Enrollment Plan outlines steep cuts, including at least 600 fewer class sections.

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Mayor Breed Moves Forward with Balboa Reservoir Development Despite Objections from City College Board, Faculty, and Community

May 29, 2020May 30, 2020 The Guardsman Vick Van Chung, Public Lands for Public Good, board of trustees, balboa reservoir, john rizzo, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Chronicle, London Breed, CCSF Collective

The City College community objects to Mayor London Breed’s efforts to push through a controversial proposal to build 1,100 units of privately held housing on public land in use by the college that would create ongoing traffic congestion and parking issues.

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HEAT Rallies with Bay Area Labor Chorus for Bridge Funding

February 19, 2020May 3, 2020 The Guardsman Shamann Walton, bridge funding, Board of Supervisors, London Breed

Students and faculty rallied on the steps of City Hall in a last-minute effort to urge the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor to support $2.7 million in emergency funding from San Francisco’s General Fund, to restore classes at City College.

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Bridge Funding Falls Short of Veto-Proof Majority

February 5, 2020May 3, 2020 The Guardsman Board of Supervisors, class cuts, Norman Yee, London Breed, Shamann Walton, Aminah Jalal

The Board of Supervisors meeting held January 28 at City Hall resulted in passing the emergency bridge funding to restore the city college’s 288 abruptly cut classes — but did not reach the veto-proof majority that many in the faculty were hoping for.