Exiting Chancellor Promised Transparency but Many Student Don’t Know He Exists
As students were interviewed across Ocean Campus on Sept. 26, just five days after Martin gave notice, the most common response was, “What’s a chancellor?”
Read more
David Martin
AFT Blames District Policies for Waitlist Crisis: Connecting the Dots from Layoffs to Waitlists
At the July 27 emergency session, BoT members voted 5-0 to approve a revised resolution including a provision to immediately rehire instructors in selected classes.
Read more
Homecoming of Diego Rivera’s Mural Not Going Quite as Planned
They say history repeats itself. Diego Rivera completed a mural intended for a City College building that was never built, In 1941. Eighty years later, the mural was planned to be installed into the Performance Arts and Education Center which has still not been constructed.
Read more
Trustees “Take the Heat” When There is None on Campus
In the trustee’s emergency meeting on Tuesday March 14, the City College board approved a $2.6 million transfer into a construction fund in order to help fix heating issues. However these repairs will take months and many of the stopgap solutions don’t seem to be working according to many faculty who spoke at the meeting.
Read moreCity College Struggles with Inadequate Heating, Leaving Faculty and Students in the Cold
City College is facing cold classroom conditions due to broken boilers. This has caused discomfort and hindered learning for both students and faculty, with temperatures in the rooms as low as the 50s. The administration has suggested using space heaters and moving rooms, but the faculty union, AFT 2121, calls these solutions inadequate.
Read more
City College Eases COVID-19 Restrictions, Lifts Mask Mandate, Effective Feb. 6, and Proof of Vaccination Requirement
The City College Board of Trustees has approved the removal of the mask mandate on campus, effective Feb. 6, and the removal of the proof of vaccination mandate for the upcoming summer 2023 registration cycle. The policy of requiring proof of vaccination or an allowable exemption for in-person classes is still in place for spring 2023. The college will still strongly recommend wearing masks.
Read more“I’ll be Gone, You’ll be Gone,” Hopefully Not with this Chancellor
For the past ten years, City College has named ten chancellors as its own. Will the newly appointed chancellor, David Martin, direct the helm of City College for just a few years, like many of his predecessors, or will he stay the course and truly tackle the long-term financial problems and educational needs of the college?
Read more
City College’s Former CFO Tiptoes into Chancellorship
The incoming chancellor’s contract was approved by the Board of Trustees on Sept. 23rd, and in the three weeks since he has not given an interview or issued a statement regarding his hiring, or his plans for the chancellorship.
Read more
The Chancellor Finalists: Candidates Largely Align in Approaches to Restore Solvency, and In-Person Classes
Some of the main challenges for the chancellor will be ensuring the college’s long-term fiscal stability while making preparations to bring back in-person classes. Opinions on how these goals should be achieved differ between AFT2121, the union which represents the college’s faculty, and the Board of Trustees, with chancellor candidates in the running having largely similar stances on achieving goals mostly inline with the Board’s opinion and differing from each other only slightly.
Read more
Down To 3: College Hopes To Seat a New Chancellor by Oct. 1
Since 2011, City College has had more than half a dozen leaders. Analysis by the Guardsman found that chancellorship of the college has changed hands nine times in the last decade.
Read moreAdministrative vacancies further jeopardizes building repairs
By Michael Toren The existing leadership vacuum in the Building and Grounds department, long criticized for its failure to respond
Read more