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Salary Cuts Buy Time for Fiscal Solution

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

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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What a Second State Takeover of City College Could Look Like

May 16, 2021May 16, 2021 The Guardsman Vick Van Chung, Wynd Kaufman, Malaika Finkelstein, board of trustees, River Bradley, john rizzo, Garrett Leahy, steve ngo, FCMAT, City College of San Francisco, Fiscal Crisis Management Assistance Team, CCSF, Miguel Quintero, rafael mandelman, state takeover, Leslie Simon

A letter from the state’s Fiscal Crisis Management Assistance Team says that high expenditures on salaries and benefits threaten the college’s ability to stay financially solvent.

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Administration’s Plans to Reopen Campus Receives Backlash

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 The Guardsman Philippine Studies, CCSF, Jennifer Hsu, Women and Gender’s Studies, American Federation of Teachers, remote learning, class cuts, Aliya Chisti, Disabled Students Programs and Services, Malaika Finkelstein, funding, Ava Cohen, pink slips, Mary Bravewoman, staff, in person learning, administration, Richard Baum, AFT2121, board meeting, board of trustees, Thea Selby, City Mayor’s Office, faculty

Administration recently proposed a plan to reopen campuses to in person learning, but there have been discussions about delaying it due to frustration with the lack of consideration and planning.

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Administration Asks City for $30 Million in Emergency Aid

April 28, 2021 The Guardsman board of trustees, Hillary Ronen, budget, Rajen Vurdien, Board of Supervisors, Annette Mullaney, 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

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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Chancellor Search on Hiatus, to Resume July 1

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 The Guardsman Eloy Ortiz Oakley, Eleni Balakrishnan, Malaika Finkelstein, Chancellor Vurdien, Garrett Leahy, Helen Benjamin, board of trustees, HSV Consulting, budget, Tim Wolfred, shanell williams, AFT2121

About a month after formally announcing the start of City College’s search for a new permanent chancellor on Feb. 12, City College’s Board of Trustees announced the search will be put on hiatus as the board deals with the school’s budgetary crisis.

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City Supervisors Consider Funding For City College

April 14, 2021April 14, 2021 The Guardsman City College of San Francisco, Hilary Ronen, class cuts, SF Board of Supervisors, shanell williams, BOS, BOT, WERF, AFT2121, Alayna Fredericks, Gordon Mar, Mary Bravewoman, Vick Van Chung, Malaika Finkelstein, board of trustees, Layoffs, Workforce Education and Recovery Fund

San Francisco supervisors expressed support for City College at a hearing on the college’s proposed course cuts and layoffs of over 60% of instructors.

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Board Approves 160 Full-time Faculty Layoff Notices as Part of Sweeping Cuts

March 10, 2021April 12, 2021 The Guardsman Aliya Chisti, board of trustees, Malaika Finkelstein, Layoffs, ESL, multi-year Budget and Enrollment Plan, DSPS, John al-Amin, health education, Philippines Studies, Dianna Gonzales, Women & Gender Studies, Alan Wong, Licensed Vocational Nursing, Vick Van Chung, Disabled Students Program and Services

The layoffs, if implemented, would represent a loss of nearly 30% of City College’s 541 full-time teaching staff and 74% of its administrators, part of the five-year budget plan passed by the board in November.

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A Many-Faceted Financial Fiasco

February 9, 2021February 10, 2021 The Guardsman Other Post-Employment Benefits, accrediting commission for community and junior colleges, OPEB, London Breed, Carole Meagher, John al-Amin, board of trustees, Workforce Education and Recovery Fund, budget, Annette Mullaney, Gordan Mar, john rizzo, Enrollment Management Committee, Michael Needham, seiu local 1021, Wynd Kaufman, Athena Steff, aft 2121, Malaika Finkelstein, Full-Time Caucus, academic senate, Erin Blackwell, David James, accreditation, multi-year Budget and Enrollment Plan, Budget Committee, ACCJC

The pandemic has exacerbated the College’s financial woes, with decreased tax revenues and delayed funding from the state, but it is not the genesis of the problem.

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Faculty Union Criticizes Moves Towards Layoffs

February 9, 2021February 10, 2021 The Guardsman American Federation of Teachers, March 15th Slips, deficit, Seniority, AFT, pink slips, board of trustees, budget, Budget Crisis, cuts, tobin jones, Malaika Finkelstein, enrollment, Chancellor Vurdien, aft 2121, Layoffs

Interim-Chancellor Vurdien announced January 21st that City College intends to issue pink slips to a yet undisclosed number of employees.

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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 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, Tom Boegel, Wynd Kaufman, Rick Baum, Alison Datz

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.