CCSF Trustees: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs
Trustee Davila, Trustee Rizzo, Trustee Selby, Trustee Wong, Trustee Chisti, Trustee Williams, Student Trustee Villalobos
Dear CCSF Trustees,
We are alarmed at the recent downsizing of City College of San Francisco, an institution that provides college classes, job training, language skills, and lifelong learning opportunities to our most underserved residents – students of color, immigrants, English language learners, people with disabilities, and the working poor. CCSF’s programs and services open a pathway to a living wage, a four-year degree, greater participation in our democracy, and enhanced quality of life.
In Fall of 2019, CCSF’s administration abruptly cut course offerings, shutting many students out of life-changing opportunities. In January 2022, Chancellor David Martin laid off 59 classified staff SEIU members, 98% of whom are women and people of color. In March, Chancellor Martin issued 58 layoff notices to full-time faculty, which in turn necessitates defacto layoffs for hundreds of part-time faculty and even deeper cuts to class offerings. To be clear, this is not a funding issue: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs.
We believe that affordable higher education, job training, and spaces for learning are cornerstones of our democratic values. And we believe that, as the City recovers from COVID, we need more, not fewer, educational opportunities. How can one of the richest cities in the world abdicate its responsibility to educate its residents?
We call on you, the City College Board of Trustees, to exercise the leadership this moment demands by refusing to enact these unnecessary layoffs and further cuts to the College.
In addition, we urge you to join with organized labor, faculty, staff, students, community members, and elected officials to implement a unified plan that will bring much-needed revenue to the College.
Please act to preserve and grow our college for San Franciscans — now, and in the future.
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Trustee Davila, Trustee Rizzo, Trustee Selby, Trustee Wong, Trustee Chisti, Trustee Williams, Student Trustee Villalobos
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Dear CCSF Trustees,
We are alarmed at the recent downsizing of City College of San Francisco, an institution that provides college classes, job training, language skills, and lifelong learning opportunities to our most underserved residents – students of color, immigrants, English language learners, people with disabilities, and the working poor. CCSF’s programs and services open a pathway to a living wage, a four-year degree, greater participation in our democracy, and enhanced quality of life.
In Fall of 2019, CCSF’s administration abruptly cut course offerings, shutting many students out of life-changing opportunities. In January 2022, Chancellor David Martin laid off 59 staff members, 98% of whom are women and people of color. In March, Chancellor Martin issued 58 layoff notices to full-time faculty, which in turn necessitates defacto layoffs for hundreds of part-time faculty and even deeper cuts to class offerings. To be clear, this is not a funding issue: CCSF’s current budget does not mandate layoffs.
We believe that affordable higher education, job training, and spaces for learning are cornerstones of our democratic values. And we believe that, as the City recovers from COVID, we need more, not fewer, educational opportunities. How can one of the richest cities in the world abdicate its responsibility to educate its residents?
We call on you, the City College Board of Trustees, to exercise the leadership this moment demands by refusing to enact these unnecessary layoffs and further cuts to the College.
In addition, we urge you to join with organized labor, faculty, staff, students, community members, and elected officials to implement a unified plan that will bring much-needed revenue to the College.
Please act to preserve and grow our college for San Franciscans — now, and in the future.