Tag: Erin Blackwell

The Guardsman and Etc. Magazine Win Big at San Francisco Press Club’s 45th Annual Greater Bay Journalism Awards

February 1, 2023 The Guardsman journalism excellence, the guardsman, etc. magazine, Journalism awards, Jessica Lifland, Juan Gonzalez, San Francisco Press Club, Erin Blackwell, Derek Chartrand Wallace, award winners

The San Francisco Press Club held its 45th Annual Greater Bay Journalism Awards on December 8th, honoring both professional and student journalists. The Guardsman was named Best College Newspaper while the college magazine, Etc. Magazine, won Best College Magazine and several other awards in the College Media category. The event was well attended with over 400 journalism awards presented and was the first public event since the pandemic.

Community News General News

In-Person Instruction to Increase Provisionally in the Spring

December 8, 2021January 4, 2022 The Guardsman Nathan Lawless Steele, COVID-19, Zoom, distance learning, Erin Blackwell, in-person instruction, Spring 2022, Denali Norton, Joyce Coffey, Francesca Bavaro

While the college remained mostly online in Fall 2021, about 20% of courses on the course schedule were in-person. For Spring 2022, currently 25% of offered courses will be in-person.

Chancellor News

City College’s Former CFO Tiptoes into Chancellorship

October 20, 2021November 18, 2021 The Guardsman shanell williams, CFO, accrediting commission for community and junior colleges, The Chronicle, PIO, Monterey County Now, Mark Rocha, 48Hills, David Martin, Monterey Peninsula, Dianna Gonzales, Yuri Anderson, board of trustees, JohnTaylor Wildfeuer, MPC, the guardsman, chief financial officer, Measure V, etc. magazine, Rosie Zepeda, JT, chancellor, Erin Blackwell, ACCJC

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.

Athletics Department Sports Soccer

Rams’ Reign Continues with Strong Performances Versus Las Positas and Santa Rosa

October 6, 2021February 1, 2022 The Guardsman women’s sports, alexia estrada, Sports, illiana sanchez, soccer, bob kinoshita, city college, women's soccer, Jeff Wilson, Erin Blackwell, Megan Celillo

By Seamus Geoghegan The Rams women’s soccer team remains dominant after wins in seven of their eight matches as

COVID19 Culture

Fauci Documentary Remembers AIDS

September 22, 2021September 25, 2021 The Guardsman NIAID, Sharon Lerner, gain of function, John Hoffman, Janet Tobias, NIH, AIDS, virus, Vogue Theater, coronavirus, Rand Paul, Robert Malone, Erin Blackwell, Nikki Minaj, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Mara Hvistendahl

Early in the film a split screen shows the 80-year-old doctor and his 45-year-old self treading the same pathway to work, opening the same door, waiting in the same elevator, walking down the same hall, and entering the same office to type on different computer keyboards. Fauci had become media-worthy for his involvement with AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). Reading the first reports of PCP and Kaposi’s Sarcoma in young gay men, Fauci sensed it was a new disease. “I got goosebumps.”

Union Chancellor COVID19 Budget Crisis News Board of Trustees

The Chancellor Finalists: Candidates Largely Align in Approaches to Restore Solvency, and In-Person Classes

September 8, 2021October 13, 2021 The Guardsman David Martin, budget deficit, Student Centered Funding Formula, Monterey Peninsula Community College District, Las Positas College, Erin Blackwell, Garrett Leahy, board of trustees, Malaika Finklestein, chancellor, Kristina Whalen, Christopher Villa, shanell williams, candidate, AFT2121

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.

Opinions & Editorials

What the “Damn Shot” Taught Me

August 25, 2021September 14, 2021 The Guardsman gene therapy, Jr., Joan Didion, Dr. Joseph Mercola, Reiner Fuellmich, Kevin McCarthy, Franz Ruppert, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Mark Crispin Miller, Plandemic 2, Dr. Peter McCullough, Legion of Honor, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, CCSF, doppelgänger, Dr. Charles Hoffe, virus, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Yuchen Xiao, Erin Blackwell, NIAID, Dr. Judy Mikovits, gain of function, Robert F. Kennedy

Inoculation with unregulated gene therapy that induces cells to produce toxic spike protein can be lethal, and should not be imposed on any student body as a prerequisite for access to public education.

COVID19 News Board of Trustees

City College Faces $22.5 Million Budget Deficit and Threat of State Take Over

August 25, 2021September 14, 2021 The Guardsman Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, john rizzo, HEERF, academic senate, COVID-19, California Community College Chancellor’s Office, pandemic, cantonese, ESL, English as a Second Language, Other Post-Employment Benefits Retiree Trust, shanell williams, Aliya Chisti, AFT2121, Wynd Kaufman, Wise, Erin Blackwell, Sarah Berjan, CARES Act, Tom Temprano, OPEB, Tom Boegel, John al-Amin, board of trustees, Alan Wong

State auditors in early April warned the California Community College Chancellor’s office to act quickly in order to remain independent, deeming the college “not currently stable,” citing its ineffective attempts at reducing its costs necessary to supplement the 35% enrollment decline over the past eight years, which resulted in the college tapping into its reserves.

Frontpage Display News Accreditation

City College Secures Firefighter Academy Accreditation While Aeronautics Program Remains Displaced

May 12, 2021 The Guardsman firefighter, administration of justice and fire science technology, john adams center, aeronautics and aircraft maintenance, evans campus, jim connors, accreditation, Airport Campus, Rosie Zepeda, Erin Blackwell

This month City College received its California State Fire Marshal and the State Board of Fire Services accreditation making it a regional training program for five years. Its neighboring program, Aeronautics and Aircraft Maintenance Technology Program is at risk of being permanently cut.

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Administration Asks City for $30 Million in Emergency Aid

April 28, 2021 The Guardsman 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, class cuts, Malaika Finkelstein, shanell williams, Erin Blackwell, AFT2121

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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Timber

April 14, 2021 The Guardsman Chancellor Vurdien, Erin Blackwell, city college, class cuts, pink slips, teachers, AFT2121

Frontpage Display Opinions & Editorials

Biden Cancelled Keystone XL, Will Line 3 Be Next?

April 14, 2021 The Guardsman Enbridge Line 3, StopLine3, Anishinaabe Nation, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, the guardsman, CCSF, Tim Hill, Erin Blackwell

Over the last few months, the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline has continued to garner significant media attention from mainstream, independent, and alternative publications.

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Art Instructor Questions Her Pink Slip

March 24, 2021 The Guardsman Tom Boegel, printmaking, Anna Asabedo, board of trustees, Rajen Vurdien, faculty cuts, the guardsman, equity, Michael Needhan, budget cuts, Daina Medveder Koziot, City College of San Francisco, Erin Blackwell, CCSF, Layoffs, administration, Stephanie MacAller, Leslie Simon, Rebuild City College, Fort Mason Campus, Amy Diaz-Infante, Art department, pink slip

“Is there someone here who doesn’t want a City College? That doesn’t want free education? Is the focus just churning out degrees? And certainly, getting degrees and certificates is part of our mission. Also part of our mission has been to provide education for lifelong learning.”

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