CCSF still in crisis


It appears that all is not well at CCSF.  Thanks to the ACCJC's actions, the college has been in survival mode for the past few years.  Like Compton, the enrollment has dropped to dangerous levels, but unlike Compton, it appears that CCSF got a better gap funding deal than we did, which was a line of credit.  



Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Collegessanctioned City College for a wide range of financial and administrative problems. It currently enrolls the equivalent of roughly 21,000 full-time students, which is down from about 33,000 when the accreditation woes began.
San Francisco’s residents also have helped the college ride out the budget crunch of losing so many students (and their tuition dollars and state subsidies). The city’s voters in 2012 passed a new parcel tax, which has generated about $15 million in annual funding for the college.
Likewise, City College also has benefited from Proposition 30, the bundle of new sales and income taxes California votersapproved in 2012. The college’s budget for this year includes $25.5 million in revenue from those taxes.
The three new streams of money, which add up to roughly $75 million in funding this year, have helped City College come back from the brink of bankruptcy. But the funding is due to expire soon, with some money drying up next year and all three funds gone by 2020. And the college is wrestling with how much to shrink -- meaning cuts to the number of courses it offers and the numbers of instructors who teach those courses -- amid losing more than a third of its students.
That tense discussion is occurring as the college’s leaders and its primary faculty union are at loggerheads over a new employment contract. And the union’s members voted overwhelmingly to stage a one-day strike next week.

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