
Rams Poll: CCSF Reflects on First 100 Days of Trump’s Presidency
To gauge City College’s opinion of President Trump, The Guardsman conducted an anonymous poll, asking 55 students to rate their approval of his presidency thus far.
To gauge City College’s opinion of President Trump, The Guardsman conducted an anonymous poll, asking 55 students to rate their approval of his presidency thus far.
Trump’s 147 executive orders enacted within his first hundred days in office serve to strip this country of its democracy.
On Jan. 23, the Board of Trustees adopted a resolution supporting undocumented and LGBTQ+ students at City College. Later in their discussion, Trustee Susan Solomon proposed an amendment to the resolution, calling for the chancellor’s assembly of a working group that included representatives from the groups working directly with the affected students, as well as the students themselves.
The Board met Thursday, Jan. 23, to pass a resolution in support of undocumented and LGBTQIA+ students. Interim Chancellor Mitch Bailey said he aligns with the language of the Board’s resolution: “City College of San Francisco unequivocally supports the fundamental belief that every person should be treated with dignity and respect and has a right to exist and be who they are without fear of reprisal,” he affirmed.
In the days before President Trump’s inauguration, cities around the globe saw their streets overtaken by protests. Thousands gathered in the Mission District and Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco, Calif., continuing a trend that began with the 2017 Women’s March, a worldwide protest that took place just after Trump’s first inauguration.
In preparation for President-elect Donald Trump’s promised immigration agenda, City DREAM has reaffirmed its partnership with the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area to provide the undocumented student community with free immigration legal services.
The Interim Chancellor, who came out of retirement to take on the position, has referred to addressing City College’s financial crisis as “righting the ship”. As he prepares to leave the helm, students and faculty continue to work to reconcile salaries and employment with his administration’s Multi-Year Budget Plan.
Now that President Biden has taken office, many Latinos feel more empowered and put their trust in the new president.
City DREAM, a resource center for undocumented students, confidentially advises students and the City College community on academic, legal, and financial matters.
Mothers handcuffed to their children, a full-grown man stuffed into a drainpipe, a family of three crammed together in the boot of a car. Under the cover of night they were found and detained by border patrol officers, their moments of fear and loss caught in the glow of Ken Light’s Hasselblad camera.
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