Resource Centers Push Back as Their Walls Close In
Tracey Faulkner brought backup to the Board of Trustees meeting on April 24: fifteen student-parents accompanied by their children.
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Budget Deficit’s Impact on Equity
Cuts to staff and classes may increase demands on City College’s counseling services and retention programs that largely serve underrepresented students, yet the programs themselves may not be fully spared.
EOPS Program, Born from 1960s Militancy, Celebrates 50 Years
By Tobin Jones
tobinjones@protonmail.com
The Extended Opportunity Programs and Services, or EOPS, has celebrated fifty years at City College. The program, which marked its half-centennial last year, offers special assistance to California community college students from marginalized backgrounds.
“On Strike, Shut it Down!”
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From Dark Past, City College Student Looks to Bright Future
This piece was originally published in Vol. 161, Issue 3 of The Guardsman and is being republished as part of San Francisco's city-wide focus on homelessness on June 29, 2016. For more information about this effort, visit http://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/.
Trustees create task force to evaluate textbook costs
The City College board of trustees passed a resolution establishing a College Textbook Affordability Task Force to improve textbook affordability on March 26.
Financial Aid and EOPS at risk for possible cuts
Unless California lawmakers can agree on a state budget already two months overdue, disbursements of over $600,000 for Financial Aid and state funded programs like EOPS will not be available for City College students this September.
Opinion: Money for nothing
Everyone should be applying for as many scholarships as possible. According to Jorge Bell, dean of financial aid, EOPS and CalWORKs, many scholarships go unused, leading to less money or less scholarships offered.
The Del M. Anderson Scholarship is offered to students that have completed a minimum 24 units at