City 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.

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City College’s Finances Looking ‘Stable,’ According to Moody’s Investors Service

The financial outlook rating from Moody’s is good news for City College’s upcoming accreditation assessment, according to trustees.

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A College in Recovery Seeks Commitments from its Chancellor

As the college has seen ten years of chancellors dropping out or losing good standing, it will be a dramatic change of pace to transfer to a four-year Chancellor.

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Delta Variant Surge Leads to Mandate

The City College Board of Trustees approved a vaccine mandate Thursday, August 12, which will require students, faculty, staff, and visitors to be vaccinated by Oct. 1, 2021 at the latest.

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A Many-Faceted Financial Fiasco

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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Administration to Acknowledge Unceded Ramaytush Ohlone Land

The Ramaytush Ohlone are the original inhabitants of the San Francisco Peninsula. Long sought-after, generational change is in the making—at City College, it begins with the Land Acknowledgement Initiative.

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Faculty Union Criticizes Moves Towards 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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Letter To the Editor

Dear CCSF students and community,    Four of seven seats on CCSF’s Board of Trustees are up for election. Trustees

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Borrowing from a “Rainy Day” Account

The 2019-2020 and tentative 2020-2021 budgets will include money from a backup retirement fund. It will not affect current or future retiree benefit payments. Extraordinary financial circumstances have been declared as the reason for using the otherwise untouchable fund. The money must be returned over time.

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