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Many of the students in Yu’s oversubscribed classes — both of her two Cantonese courses this semester have full waitlists — are essential workers hoping to apply their newfound skills to their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a city where about one-tenth of the population speaks Cantonese, essential workers are beginning to realize that their ability to communicate in Cantonese can have life-or-death consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city employs some of the workers in Yu’s class as first responders, but there also are medical professionals, social service providers and community volunteers who are learning the language to better serve Cantonese-speaking residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see being able to speak Cantonese as not only about cultural preservation, but also making sure that people can receive essential services in a language they understand,” said Julia Quon, a doula and nursing student who took Yu’s class, referencing concerns that the language’s future is threatened by the Chinese government’s campaign to promote Mandarin and by younger generations losing the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her Cantonese-speaking patients at San Francisco General Hospital see her walk in, Quon said, they breathe a “huge sigh of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cantonese, a regional Chinese language spoken by over 80 million people across the world, is the most-spoken Chinese language in the Bay Area, and it is spoken at even higher rates in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is the Cantonese capital of America,” said Alan Wong, president of City College’s Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are limited opportunities to learn the language later in life in San Francisco, which in turn diminishes the hiring pool of essential workers who can speak Cantonese. High school students in the public school district hoping to earn world language credits in Chinese only have the option of taking Mandarin. And City College, the only higher education institution in the city that offers Cantonese, has reduced the numbers of teachers in its program over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Middle-aged Asian woman wearing a blue and red zip-up top smiles as she stands behind a desk in a classroom with a white board behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Grace Yu poses for a portrait during a break from teaching a Cantonese class at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Puppy Valentine, a student in Yu’s class, said learning Cantonese creates a better rapport with many of the people she sees in her capacity as a community health supervisor at St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic, which provides a broad range of safety-net services to San Franciscans in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when you’re not doing the best job with the language, people can tell you’re trying,” Valentine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Sit, co-founder of the Chinatown Volunteer Coalition, said he regularly steps in to serve as an interpreter, both in person and over the phone, for Chinatown residents seeking the help of first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps an eye out when he’s outside for people who may be in need of assistance: “I’ll walk by, show them the card that we’re volunteering for the CVC and say, ‘Hey, I’m just checking in to see if everything’s OK. I can translate in Cantonese. Do you need any help?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Wong, who works with Sit, said his experience has made clear the importance of Cantonese, and he’s signed up for one of Yu’s classes to deepen his vocabulary as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hire, educate and provide resources,” he said, ticking off steps the city could take to ensure better language access. “We need to ensure our community feels safe and protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A life-and-death community need\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Yu first began teaching at City College, there was a team of Cantonese instructors. Now, she is the only one remaining. In 2021, administrators threatened to cut the program, but community members, led by Save Cantonese, an advocacy group that Quon co-founded, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">rallied to preserve it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Asian woman wearing a colorful red shirt and a red-and-gold facemask holds a microphone with hand-made signs in the background reading Save Cantonese at CCSF\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, a former student in Grace Yu's Cantonese class who organized Save Cantonese at CCSF with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shawn Lee, policy director for Save Cantonese, said there is a clear community need for these classes, especially specialized courses, such as one focusing on medical terms. “Even knowing how to talk about preexisting conditions and allergies are the things that can make a life-and-death difference,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent high-profile incidents in the city — including hateful attacks against members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities — have also intensified calls to ensure that essential workers can provide services in Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, SFSU Asian American studies professor\"]'These are dramatic cases ... But I also know lots of cases where people don't call 911 because they don't know how to speak to dispatchers, or they don't seek out health care because they don't understand the doctors.'[/pullquote]Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3161691/learning-cantonese-shouldnt-just-be-about-cultural\">commentators have pointed out that first responders’ inability to speak Cantonese may have impacted their capacity to help Xiao Zhen Xie\u003c/a>, an older woman who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980760622/asian-grandmother-who-smacked-her-attacker-with-a-board-donates-nearly-1-million\">fought off an attacker with a wooden board\u003c/a> in March 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another incident in May 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/district-attorney-chesa-boudin-joins-effort-to-find-missing-84-year-old-woman/\">84-year-old Jean Chang Kan Fung was reported missing\u003c/a> after she didn’t return home from a walk. Nearly two weeks later, her body was discovered on a beach in Pacifica, though it wasn’t confirmed as hers for months. It turned out that \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2021/09/the-mystery-of-jean-chang-kan-fung-84-dead-after-an-encounter-with-chp/\">California Highway Patrol officers had encountered Fung the day she went missing\u003c/a> — they picked her up after responding to 911 calls about a person walking on a highway, then gave her a ride to a Safeway miles from her home. Chesa Boudin, who was then the district attorney, suggested that a “communication breakdown” had taken place, as Fung spoke only Taishanese and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know where the communication went wrong,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/district-attorney-chesa-boudin-joins-effort-to-find-missing-84-year-old-woman/\">Boudin said at a press conference about the incident\u003c/a>. “But we know she didn’t get a ride home. She didn’t get a ride close to her home … I think all of us feel that, had there been more language access, perhaps this devastating situation could have been avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said he was not aware of an issue of translation in the department’s response to the first woman, and he wrote that a certified Cantonese-speaking officer assisted the victim in the initial investigation. The California Highway Patrol, which responded to the latter incident, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are dramatic cases,” said Russell Jeung, an Asian American studies professor at San Francisco State University. “But I also know lots of cases where people don’t call 911 because they don’t know how to speak to dispatchers, or they don’t seek out health care because they don’t understand the doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung, who co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/about/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>, a coalition that tracks and responds to hate incidents, added that the March and May 2021 incidents came at an “inflection point” where there was a heightened awareness among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of attacks. (Jeung is no longer with the coalition.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said institutions’ failure to provide access to services in an appropriate language constitutes a form of hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of cultural insensitivity is a problem,” he said. “Addressing racism involves both addressing the hate incidents but also the broader, institutionalized forms of hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We can be a source of comfort'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate has received 942 reports of hate incidents in the last year in San Francisco, with 63% of those incidents being reported by Chinese respondents, according to data provided by the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some essential workers pointed to such incidents as the motivation for their efforts to learn or use Cantonese on their jobs, as well as first-hand experiences with language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Chow, a student in Yu’s class who works as a medical assistant at a Daly City dermatology clinic, said she thinks of a Cantonese-speaking patient who visits the clinic after picking up his prescriptions to have his medications explained to him, even though pharmacies in California are required to provide services in languages other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can be a source of comfort for patients when we can provide that help,” Chow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Wide shot of numerous students who appear to be of varying race and age sitting at desks in a classroom with books open, speaking to each other\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work on an assignment during a Cantonese language class taught by Professor Grace Yu at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong, the City College trustee, cited an incident at a San Francisco hospital where he stepped in to interpret for an older Chinese woman as the motivation for his advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled walking down a hallway when the woman flagged him down. She had a “big purple eye,” Wong said, and she told him that she had been punched on a bus. According to Wong, she told him that when police officers arrived, they were unable to communicate with her, and she was further unable to communicate with staff at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I think about the importance of having a Cantonese education, I think about her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We still have a long way to go'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeung, the San Francisco State University professor, added that in some regards, San Francisco is ahead of other cities in providing language access as a result of its Language Access Ordinance, one of the strongest local language laws in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law requires that all city departments that serve the public provide “fair language access” and establishes a reporting process for departments and residents to determine whether the city is following the law. But Jeung said there is still a question of how well the law is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that the community continues to cry out for these types of services shows that we still have a long way to go in implementing these types of policies,” Jeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of language access is important to city officials, added Mason Lee, spokesperson for Mayor London Breed, citing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is not perfect, but everyone who works for the city knows how much we value being multilingual,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing facemasks, one who appears to be Asian and one who appears to be white, face each other and hold school books while seated in a classroom setting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work together to complete an assignment during Grace Yu's Cantonese language class at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some first responders employed by the city are also working to improve language access. According to spokespeople for the fire and police departments, about 4% of fire department employees and 6% of police department employees speak Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stan Lee, a San Francisco firefighter who leads the Asian Firefighters Association, said Cantonese language skills are already underrepresented in the department, and new Chinese hires are often born in the U.S. or come to the department from outside the city, making them less likely to speak Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee added that not having appropriate language skills can be dangerous when responding to calls. He gave the example of a firefighter being unable to understand what medications a victim is taking: “That could be a life-or-death situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Culbert Chu, who leads the department’s Asian Peace Officers Association, added that in emergency situations, dispatchers prioritize sending first responders who can speak the appropriate language, and when that is not possible, responders are able to use the LanguageLine app, an on-demand interpreting service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu noted that all four Chinatown beat officers can speak some amount of Cantonese, and he has worked on community outreach in Chinatown, such as by providing residents with the phone numbers of Cantonese-speaking officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they hear us speaking [Cantonese], it puts them at ease,” he said. “It makes people more comfortable talking to us about what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curran Gong, a police officer who works with Chu, added, “The more Cantonese speakers, the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with support from the Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and Comcast California’s Rising With the Tides fellowship, a storytelling project aimed at amplifying Asian American Pacific Islander stories and voices.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco may be the Cantonese capital of the US, but there are limited opportunities to learn the language, which in turn diminishes the hiring pool of essential workers who can speak it.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1679521410,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2138},"headData":{"title":"'A Life-and-Death Difference': Essential Workers Push for Cantonese Language Access in San Francisco | KQED","description":"San Francisco may be the Cantonese capital of the US, but there are limited opportunities to learn the language, which in turn diminishes the hiring pool of essential workers who can speak it.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/kate_selig\">Kate Selig\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11943615/a-life-and-death-difference-essential-workers-push-for-cantonese-language-access-in-san-francisco","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n Wednesday evenings, about 35 students crowd into Grace Yu’s classroom at City College of San Francisco to study Cantonese late into the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These aren’t your average 20-something college kids. Many of the students in Yu’s oversubscribed classes — both of her two Cantonese courses this semester have full waitlists — are essential workers hoping to apply their newfound skills to their careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a city where about one-tenth of the population speaks Cantonese, essential workers are beginning to realize that their ability to communicate in Cantonese can have life-or-death consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city employs some of the workers in Yu’s class as first responders, but there also are medical professionals, social service providers and community volunteers who are learning the language to better serve Cantonese-speaking residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see being able to speak Cantonese as not only about cultural preservation, but also making sure that people can receive essential services in a language they understand,” said Julia Quon, a doula and nursing student who took Yu’s class, referencing concerns that the language’s future is threatened by the Chinese government’s campaign to promote Mandarin and by younger generations losing the language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When her Cantonese-speaking patients at San Francisco General Hospital see her walk in, Quon said, they breathe a “huge sigh of relief.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cantonese, a regional Chinese language spoken by over 80 million people across the world, is the most-spoken Chinese language in the Bay Area, and it is spoken at even higher rates in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is the Cantonese capital of America,” said Alan Wong, president of City College’s Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there are limited opportunities to learn the language later in life in San Francisco, which in turn diminishes the hiring pool of essential workers who can speak Cantonese. High school students in the public school district hoping to earn world language credits in Chinese only have the option of taking Mandarin. And City College, the only higher education institution in the city that offers Cantonese, has reduced the numbers of teachers in its program over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943629\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Middle-aged Asian woman wearing a blue and red zip-up top smiles as she stands behind a desk in a classroom with a white board behind her\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62791_016_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Grace Yu poses for a portrait during a break from teaching a Cantonese class at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Puppy Valentine, a student in Yu’s class, said learning Cantonese creates a better rapport with many of the people she sees in her capacity as a community health supervisor at St. Anthony’s Medical Clinic, which provides a broad range of safety-net services to San Franciscans in need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even when you’re not doing the best job with the language, people can tell you’re trying,” Valentine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Sit, co-founder of the Chinatown Volunteer Coalition, said he regularly steps in to serve as an interpreter, both in person and over the phone, for Chinatown residents seeking the help of first responders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps an eye out when he’s outside for people who may be in need of assistance: “I’ll walk by, show them the card that we’re volunteering for the CVC and say, ‘Hey, I’m just checking in to see if everything’s OK. I can translate in Cantonese. Do you need any help?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raymond Wong, who works with Sit, said his experience has made clear the importance of Cantonese, and he’s signed up for one of Yu’s classes to deepen his vocabulary as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hire, educate and provide resources,” he said, ticking off steps the city could take to ensure better language access. “We need to ensure our community feels safe and protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A life-and-death community need\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When Yu first began teaching at City College, there was a team of Cantonese instructors. Now, she is the only one remaining. In 2021, administrators threatened to cut the program, but community members, led by Save Cantonese, an advocacy group that Quon co-founded, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">rallied to preserve it\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943624\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Asian woman wearing a colorful red shirt and a red-and-gold facemask holds a microphone with hand-made signs in the background reading Save Cantonese at CCSF\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, a former student in Grace Yu's Cantonese class who organized Save Cantonese at CCSF with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Shawn Lee, policy director for Save Cantonese, said there is a clear community need for these classes, especially specialized courses, such as one focusing on medical terms. “Even knowing how to talk about preexisting conditions and allergies are the things that can make a life-and-death difference,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent high-profile incidents in the city — including hateful attacks against members of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities — have also intensified calls to ensure that essential workers can provide services in Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'These are dramatic cases ... But I also know lots of cases where people don't call 911 because they don't know how to speak to dispatchers, or they don't seek out health care because they don't understand the doctors.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Russell Jeung, co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate, SFSU Asian American studies professor","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3161691/learning-cantonese-shouldnt-just-be-about-cultural\">commentators have pointed out that first responders’ inability to speak Cantonese may have impacted their capacity to help Xiao Zhen Xie\u003c/a>, an older woman who \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/03/24/980760622/asian-grandmother-who-smacked-her-attacker-with-a-board-donates-nearly-1-million\">fought off an attacker with a wooden board\u003c/a> in March 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another incident in May 2021, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/district-attorney-chesa-boudin-joins-effort-to-find-missing-84-year-old-woman/\">84-year-old Jean Chang Kan Fung was reported missing\u003c/a> after she didn’t return home from a walk. Nearly two weeks later, her body was discovered on a beach in Pacifica, though it wasn’t confirmed as hers for months. It turned out that \u003ca href=\"https://48hills.org/2021/09/the-mystery-of-jean-chang-kan-fung-84-dead-after-an-encounter-with-chp/\">California Highway Patrol officers had encountered Fung the day she went missing\u003c/a> — they picked her up after responding to 911 calls about a person walking on a highway, then gave her a ride to a Safeway miles from her home. Chesa Boudin, who was then the district attorney, suggested that a “communication breakdown” had taken place, as Fung spoke only Taishanese and Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know where the communication went wrong,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/district-attorney-chesa-boudin-joins-effort-to-find-missing-84-year-old-woman/\">Boudin said at a press conference about the incident\u003c/a>. “But we know she didn’t get a ride home. She didn’t get a ride close to her home … I think all of us feel that, had there been more language access, perhaps this devastating situation could have been avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the San Francisco Police Department said he was not aware of an issue of translation in the department’s response to the first woman, and he wrote that a certified Cantonese-speaking officer assisted the victim in the initial investigation. The California Highway Patrol, which responded to the latter incident, did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are dramatic cases,” said Russell Jeung, an Asian American studies professor at San Francisco State University. “But I also know lots of cases where people don’t call 911 because they don’t know how to speak to dispatchers, or they don’t seek out health care because they don’t understand the doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeung, who co-founded \u003ca href=\"https://stopaapihate.org/about/\">Stop AAPI Hate\u003c/a>, a coalition that tracks and responds to hate incidents, added that the March and May 2021 incidents came at an “inflection point” where there was a heightened awareness among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of attacks. (Jeung is no longer with the coalition.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said institutions’ failure to provide access to services in an appropriate language constitutes a form of hate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This type of cultural insensitivity is a problem,” he said. “Addressing racism involves both addressing the hate incidents but also the broader, institutionalized forms of hate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We can be a source of comfort'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Stop AAPI Hate has received 942 reports of hate incidents in the last year in San Francisco, with 63% of those incidents being reported by Chinese respondents, according to data provided by the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some essential workers pointed to such incidents as the motivation for their efforts to learn or use Cantonese on their jobs, as well as first-hand experiences with language access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christine Chow, a student in Yu’s class who works as a medical assistant at a Daly City dermatology clinic, said she thinks of a Cantonese-speaking patient who visits the clinic after picking up his prescriptions to have his medications explained to him, even though pharmacies in California are required to provide services in languages other than English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can be a source of comfort for patients when we can provide that help,” Chow said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943652\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Wide shot of numerous students who appear to be of varying race and age sitting at desks in a classroom with books open, speaking to each other\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62786_009_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work on an assignment during a Cantonese language class taught by Professor Grace Yu at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wong, the City College trustee, cited an incident at a San Francisco hospital where he stepped in to interpret for an older Chinese woman as the motivation for his advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recalled walking down a hallway when the woman flagged him down. She had a “big purple eye,” Wong said, and she told him that she had been punched on a bus. According to Wong, she told him that when police officers arrived, they were unable to communicate with her, and she was further unable to communicate with staff at the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever I think about the importance of having a Cantonese education, I think about her,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>'We still have a long way to go'\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jeung, the San Francisco State University professor, added that in some regards, San Francisco is ahead of other cities in providing language access as a result of its Language Access Ordinance, one of the strongest local language laws in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law requires that all city departments that serve the public provide “fair language access” and establishes a reporting process for departments and residents to determine whether the city is following the law. But Jeung said there is still a question of how well the law is implemented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that the community continues to cry out for these types of services shows that we still have a long way to go in implementing these types of policies,” Jeung said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The question of language access is important to city officials, added Mason Lee, spokesperson for Mayor London Breed, citing the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is not perfect, but everyone who works for the city knows how much we value being multilingual,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11943635\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11943635\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing facemasks, one who appears to be Asian and one who appears to be white, face each other and hold school books while seated in a classroom setting\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/RS62790_015_KQED_CCSFCantoneseClass_02082023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students work together to complete an assignment during Grace Yu's Cantonese language class at City College of San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some first responders employed by the city are also working to improve language access. According to spokespeople for the fire and police departments, about 4% of fire department employees and 6% of police department employees speak Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stan Lee, a San Francisco firefighter who leads the Asian Firefighters Association, said Cantonese language skills are already underrepresented in the department, and new Chinese hires are often born in the U.S. or come to the department from outside the city, making them less likely to speak Cantonese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee added that not having appropriate language skills can be dangerous when responding to calls. He gave the example of a firefighter being unable to understand what medications a victim is taking: “That could be a life-or-death situation,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Police Department Sergeant Culbert Chu, who leads the department’s Asian Peace Officers Association, added that in emergency situations, dispatchers prioritize sending first responders who can speak the appropriate language, and when that is not possible, responders are able to use the LanguageLine app, an on-demand interpreting service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chu noted that all four Chinatown beat officers can speak some amount of Cantonese, and he has worked on community outreach in Chinatown, such as by providing residents with the phone numbers of Cantonese-speaking officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they hear us speaking [Cantonese], it puts them at ease,” he said. “It makes people more comfortable talking to us about what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Curran Gong, a police officer who works with Chu, added, “The more Cantonese speakers, the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was produced with support from the Bay Area chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) and Comcast California’s Rising With the Tides fellowship, a storytelling project aimed at amplifying Asian American Pacific Islander stories and voices.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11943615/a-life-and-death-difference-essential-workers-push-for-cantonese-language-access-in-san-francisco","authors":["byline_news_11943615"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32535","news_29437","news_27626","news_23393","news_38","news_29159"],"featImg":"news_11943646","label":"news"},"news_11912843":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11912843","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11912843","score":null,"sort":[1652074152000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"teachers-camp-out-at-city-college-to-protest-layoffs","title":"'Gut-Wrenching': City College of San Francisco Lays Off 38 Faculty, but More Cuts May Be on the Way","publishDate":1652074152,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Denise Selleck, ESL teacher\"]'Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed ... And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. [aside postID=\"news_11908747\" label=\"Related Post\"]Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. Bugayong is a counselor at the school and received a pink slip, or layoff notice, earlier this week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Annelise Finney, Haley Gray and David Marks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A board meeting Friday will determine whether dozens of faculty members at City College of San Francisco keep their jobs, after dwindling enrollment led to budget problems at the long-beleaguered school.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1652122682,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":37,"wordCount":1497},"headData":{"title":"'Gut-Wrenching': City College of San Francisco Lays Off 38 Faculty, but More Cuts May Be on the Way | KQED","description":"A board meeting Friday will determine whether dozens of faculty members at City College of San Francisco keep their jobs, after dwindling enrollment led to budget problems at the long-beleaguered school.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11912843 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11912843","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2022/05/08/teachers-camp-out-at-city-college-to-protest-layoffs/","disqusTitle":"'Gut-Wrenching': City College of San Francisco Lays Off 38 Faculty, but More Cuts May Be on the Way","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","path":"/news/11912843/teachers-camp-out-at-city-college-to-protest-layoffs","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 11 a.m. Saturday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs to address a looming budget deficit during a special meeting Friday night. Another 12 faculty are retiring and won't be replaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that may not be the full count of teachers dropped by the school: At least 150 part-timers may not be hired back to the college as part of a state mechanism that mandates part-timers not take the place of laid-off full-time faculty, the teachers' union says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while those aren't technically layoffs, those teachers will be out of a job all the same. Many have worked at the college for years — for some, decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913429\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913429\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A tent sits next to demonstrators listening to speakers at a rally outside a large administrative building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55789_014_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty and students gather outside Conlan Hall at CCSF to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Faculty have been camping there to protest layoffs since Tuesday. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All week, faculty and student supporters tried to hold back the tidal wave of layoffs: On Sunday, City College of San Francisco faculty marched for May Day; on Tuesday they camped in tents in front of their administration's offices; and on Thursday, 10 protesters were arrested after blocking a street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday night, the tsunami of cuts washed over them, all the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 360 faculty tuned in to the virtual City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees meeting Friday afternoon, including Denise Selleck, who has taught English as a second language classes at the college since 1991. Those classes primarily serve San Francisco's many immigrant communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed,\" Selleck said, during public comment. \"And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>English teacher Monica Bosson put the cuts in simpler terms to the Board of Trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's absolutely gut-wrenching,\" Bosson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five trustees voted to approve the cuts, with trustee Alan Wong casting a nay vote. A student trustee also cast a nay vote, though student trustee votes are only advisory. Board trustee Shanell Williams disagreed with criticism from the hundreds of faculty attending the virtual meeting that night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not the decimation of our college. There are mechanisms for rehiring and there are pathways for growth,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Your decision today not only affects the 38 tenured instructors who will lose their jobs, it also affects the dozens of part-timers who you will make unemployed ... And it will affect the thousands of students who will not be able to get the classes that they want and need.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Denise Selleck, ESL teacher","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Friday's meeting, Chancellor David Martin called the layoffs a \"very difficult situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, \"this is the best path to move forward in allowing us to spend our resources in a way that best meets the students' needs into the future,\" he said. \"We do need to readjust our financial structure, not only by increasing our reserves in excess of 5%, but we also have funding needs such as scheduled maintenance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Martin told those in attendance that the college also has to balance paying basic needs like fixing boilers or renewing computers, and that layoffs were the only way to get there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Bravewoman, president-elect of AFT 2121, the City College of San Francisco teachers' union, told KQED that the trustees' vote shook the faith of college faculty, who had been working with the city of San Francisco to raise new revenues to stave off cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With four of the trustee seats open for election this November, AFT 2121 says they're now seeking to replace the trustees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My message all week long has been loud and clear: Your 'yes' vote on these layoffs is our 'no' vote in November,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The layoffs follow various faculty rallies over the last week, including the arrest of 10 faculty members at City College of San Francisco Thursday evening by San Francisco police during a protest against the layoffs at CCSF's Ocean campus, according to AFT Local 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An SFPD spokesperson said officers arrested and cited 11 protesters for failing to obey a peace officer and for being pedestrians outside of a crosswalk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913417\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"demonstrator wearing a mask stands and is handcuffed by police holding zip ties as other demonstrators remain seated in foreground\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55821_060_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">SFPD officers arrest a demonstrator who had been sitting on Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to City College of San Francisco's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It also isn't the first time City College of San Francisco has warned layoffs were on the way. Last year, the college voted to suspend layoffs of some 160 faculty, but the Board of Trustees warned that new funding would need to be identified to stem future cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes\">City College Board Trustee Alan Wong told KQED in May last year\u003c/a>. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City College's woes began during its 2013 accreditation crisis — which infamously threatened its closure — and sent its\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/104635/city-college-of-san-francisco-enrollment-plunges-after-accreditation-loss\"> enrollment into a spiral\u003c/a> from which it never fully recovered, teachers say. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11908747","label":"Related Post "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Fewer students means fewer dollars to pay for teachers, and the college is now facing \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/city-college-faculty-stage-sleep-in-ahead-of-layoff-vote/\">a $5.8 million deficit in its 2025-2026 fiscal year\u003c/a>, according to The SF Standard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the start of new programs like \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/paying-college/free-city\">Free City College\u003c/a>, which offers free tuition to San Francisco residents, other factors soon compounded the existing drop in student population, including a statewide community college enrollment plunge during the pandemic. A CalMatters analysis found that, at 42 out of 116 California community colleges, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/higher-education/2022/03/community-college-enrollment/\">more students left in the fall of 2021 than in the fall of 2020\u003c/a>. That comprised a statewide loss of more than 300,000 students, which California tried to correct by spending an extra $120 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of unions has tried to pitch tax proposals to stem the gap, including Service Employees International Union 1021, which also represents City College of San Francisco workers and\u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/coalition-sf-city-college-unions-urge-mayor-breed-support-revenue-measure-restore-improve?link_id=2&can_id=8a6d4c2c56a332e581114be9f7773d13&source=email-important-updates-on-the-fight-to-defend-ccsf-3&email_referrer=email_1526655&email_subject=join-the-ccsf-community-sunday-at-may-day-rally-campaign-updates\"> met with Mayor London Breed in February to propose new tax mechanisms to raise dollars for CCSF\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bravewoman said those efforts are ongoing. Right now, it looks like the funding mechanism may be a parcel tax that's shaped to affect new home buyers, as opposed to existing homeowners, that may raise as much as $45 million a year. Polling shows strong support for the measure, she said. The unions will soon begin the signature-gathering effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're confident we'll be successful at the polls,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o3qTKYyaCBdZQxFcITEZ8ICcB2HesJAf/edit\">recent cuts are striking departments of all sorts\u003c/a>, affecting everything from workforce training courses like aircraft maintenance and auto mechanics, to classes needed to transfer to four-year schools, like chemistry and English.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pink slips — layoff notices — already have been mailed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913421\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold large yellow banner sign reading 'board of trustees meet students needs'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55808_039_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CCSF teachers and students block Frida Kahlo Way at the entrance to CCSF's main campus to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the May Day rally and march in San Francisco on Sunday, City College faculty who'd been served with pink slips spoke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golnar Afshar, a full-time biotechnology teacher, told KQED she got her pink slip in February. Afshar is one of only three faculty in the biotechnology program. Now those students will have fewer classes available to complete their learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Afshar's students are older and changing their careers. They have bachelor's degrees but need to fulfill hands-on training experience to get laboratory jobs — a highly sought-after career path in the Bay Area, which Afshar called \"the Mecca of biotechnology in the world.\" Now those students may have a tougher path.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have no idea what's going to happen,\" she said. \"If the classes are canceled, the students will not be able to finish up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for Afshar, who is 55 and was looking toward retirement in the next decade, \"I'm just going to have to start looking for a job.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913423\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"woman wearing black union shirt speaks into megaphone while supporters on either side of her raise fists in support\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55779_001_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathe Burick, a former dance instructor at CCSF, speaks outside Conlan Hall to protest layoffs at the school, on May 5, 2022. Burick was one of 10 faculty members arrested by SFPD at the protest. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11913427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"two women and a young girl stand in front of a CCSF sign holding a drum and their own protest sign reading 'from CCSF to OUSD, stop school cuts and closures'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/RS55831_071_KQED_CCSFLayoffProtest_05052022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left: Arlene Bugayong, Ella Rose, 6, and Sarah June Harris protest layoffs at CCSF, on May 5, 2022. Bugayong is a counselor at the school and received a pink slip, or layoff notice, earlier this week. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Annelise Finney, Haley Gray and David Marks contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11912843/teachers-camp-out-at-city-college-to-protest-layoffs","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_3854","news_29437","news_2863","news_25365","news_27626","news_31073","news_31047","news_31048"],"featImg":"news_11913415","label":"news"},"news_11872984":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872984","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872984","score":null,"sort":[1620701593000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes","title":"CCSF Approves Plan to Avoid Layoffs — SF Mulls Permanent Fund for Threatened Classes","publishDate":1620701593,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>City College of San Francisco has averted 163 layoffs and hundreds more potential job losses — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a special meeting Monday, CCSF's board of trustees voted to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872868/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts\">contract\u003c/a> with its teachers for the 2021-2022 school year that would cut faculty pay across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trustees said they were thankful for teachers' sacrifice, which will see their pay slashed by as much as 11%. However, the alternative would mean broad cuts to vital classes, administrators had argued, from car mechanic training to English as second language classes used by thousands of new immigrants annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding would likely not rescue the college, board of trustees President Shanell Williams said at the meeting. Instead, state leaders want to see the college change who it focuses on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to be very candid, we heard very clearly from our federal leaders, our state leaders, that they want to see that structural change at our college,\" she said. \"They were not really receptive to providing funding in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract's approval also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the community rallied for last week to see preserved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were particularly fearful to lose Cantonese-language courses, vital to train the local workforce to communicate with monolingual Chinese communities at a time of rising racist violence and COVID-19 concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872868\" label=\"CCSF Teachers Threatened With Layoffs\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Lauren Chinn told the trustees that taking Cantonese at City College helped her get Cantonese speakers counted in the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty pay cuts were approved by teachers themselves in a vote earlier Monday afternoon by CCSF members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121. Out of 732 faculty who voted, 603 said yes to the pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layoff notices were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent to 163 faculty by college administrators in March\u003c/a> as the school faced a $33 million budget shortfall amid historic declining enrollment. Failing to meet its financial needs may lead to a state takeover of the school, the trustees have warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are forcing a fork-in-the-road moment, the union and San Francisco leaders say: Should the college focus its dwindling dollars on younger two-year transfer students who are bound to universities? Or maintain its historic broader mission of serving older and returning students, workforce training and English as second language courses aimed at newcomer immigrants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the college's hand has been guided to the former choice by the state under a funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vote Monday saved jobs, for now, the state funding formula is a structural issue the college still needs to solve, trustee Alan Wong told the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Lauren Chinn, CCSF student\"]'Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" Wong said. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders aren't receptive to funding the vision some locally have for CCSF, San Francisco elected officials are working behind the scenes to find new funding to pay for classes that California government won't foot the bill for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF Supes Support Stepping in for CCSF\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Gordon Mar and Hillary Ronen view the binary of serving younger students and the broader workforce as a false choice. They're seeking city funding to pay for classes they think buttress the city's economy and its culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said the funding will likely come from his previous legislation, the Workforce Education and Recovery Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hopeful my colleagues and Mayor [London] Breed will support a significant expansion of WERF as an investment in City College and economic opportunity for residents and communities impacted by the pandemic,\" Mar told KQED in a statement. \"I continue to discuss the best way to accomplish this with City College leadership and other City officials and hope to bring a proposal forward in the coming weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's office said they are in conversations with the college's administration to \"better understand the long-term health and needs\" of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen framed her support for City College as sorely needed for San Francisco's economic recovery from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the city prepares for a long road to recovery ahead, our city government, our local businesses, and our residents alike will rely on City College's workforce training and professional development programs more than ever before,\" she said in a statement. \"It is in the City's own best interest to preserve these programs in order to fill our most urgent workforce needs and provide thousands of marginally employed San Franciscans with reliable pathways to job opportunities and financial stability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There seems to be broad support at the Board of Supervisors to aid City College. Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Connie Chan and Matt Haney all told KQED they support funding CCSF to maintain classes to some degree, though all mentioned a need to suss out either particular funding sources, or to what degree they'd fund CCSF classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to get down to brass tacks. What do we need City College to do that the state doesn't? And how much do we need to pay for that?\" Mandelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that unlike the state, San Francisco believes City College should be a place for older and returning students, and that maintaining a large number of campuses across San Francisco's many diverse neighborhoods (another frequent target of state officials' desire to slash CCSF resources) may also be a need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Mandelman said, \"Somebody's gotta pay for it,\" and the city needs to \"expect more from City College\" in terms of managing its resources better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said it's \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/06/breaking-state-will-not-retroactively-claw-back-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-san-francisco-other-counties/\">possible future tax windfalls\u003c/a> could help pay for City College classes San Francisco wants to maintain. A property transfer tax earmarked for City College may need to be better put to use to maintain classes as well, he said. \"City College has not received most of that money,\" Haney said. \"It just goes into the city general fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Peskin said he feels the state needs to change its tune on its priorities for City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11872330\" label=\"Students Worry for Cantonese Classes\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm willing to spend some city money, but the state needs to step up to the plate, too,\" he said, specifically calling for San Francisco Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu, as well as state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to continue advocacy on behalf of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One supervisor who has a \u003cem>conditional\u003c/em> stance on City College is Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wants assurances that a new campus will be built in the southeast side of the city before he'll commit any funds to CCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to support them getting millions of dollars from the city and county of San Francisco if they're going to rip off the southeast sector,\" Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">told The San Francisco Examiner a week ago\u003c/a>. Walton told KQED his comments stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar joined Walton in that feeling. She told KQED, of a CCSF funding effort, \"I would vote for it if there is a solid plan\" for accountability, and also \"for promises kept to the Bayview for investments in that campus from the bond approved last year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hiccup aside, the number of city leaders indicating support for CCSF may mean San Francisco will put its money where its mouth is and fund the classes its city leaders have said for years its residents need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Erika Kelly contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a special meeting Monday, CCSF's board of trustees voted to approve a contract with its teachers for the 2021-2022 school year that would cut faculty pay across the board.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620776848,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":40,"wordCount":1400},"headData":{"title":"CCSF Approves Plan to Avoid Layoffs — SF Mulls Permanent Fund for Threatened Classes | KQED","description":"In a special meeting Monday, CCSF's board of trustees voted to approve a contract with its teachers for the 2021-2022 school year that would cut faculty pay across the board.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11872984 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11872984","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/10/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes/","disqusTitle":"CCSF Approves Plan to Avoid Layoffs — SF Mulls Permanent Fund for Threatened Classes","audioUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/KellyCityCollegeFunding20210511.mp3","path":"/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>City College of San Francisco has averted 163 layoffs and hundreds more potential job losses — for now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a special meeting Monday, CCSF's board of trustees voted to approve a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872868/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts\">contract\u003c/a> with its teachers for the 2021-2022 school year that would cut faculty pay across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trustees said they were thankful for teachers' sacrifice, which will see their pay slashed by as much as 11%. However, the alternative would mean broad cuts to vital classes, administrators had argued, from car mechanic training to English as second language classes used by thousands of new immigrants annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding would likely not rescue the college, board of trustees President Shanell Williams said at the meeting. Instead, state leaders want to see the college change who it focuses on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I just want to be very candid, we heard very clearly from our federal leaders, our state leaders, that they want to see that structural change at our college,\" she said. \"They were not really receptive to providing funding in that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The contract's approval also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the community rallied for last week to see preserved\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students were particularly fearful to lose Cantonese-language courses, vital to train the local workforce to communicate with monolingual Chinese communities at a time of rising racist violence and COVID-19 concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11872868","label":"CCSF Teachers Threatened With Layoffs "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student Lauren Chinn told the trustees that taking Cantonese at City College helped her get Cantonese speakers counted in the census.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faculty pay cuts were approved by teachers themselves in a vote earlier Monday afternoon by CCSF members of the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121. Out of 732 faculty who voted, 603 said yes to the pay cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Layoff notices were \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent to 163 faculty by college administrators in March\u003c/a> as the school faced a $33 million budget shortfall amid historic declining enrollment. Failing to meet its financial needs may lead to a state takeover of the school, the trustees have warned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are forcing a fork-in-the-road moment, the union and San Francisco leaders say: Should the college focus its dwindling dollars on younger two-year transfer students who are bound to universities? Or maintain its historic broader mission of serving older and returning students, workforce training and English as second language courses aimed at newcomer immigrants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some ways, the college's hand has been guided to the former choice by the state under a funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the vote Monday saved jobs, for now, the state funding formula is a structural issue the college still needs to solve, trustee Alan Wong told the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'Taking Cantonese at City College has been a way for me to reconnect with my roots.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Lauren Chinn, CCSF student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a one-year deal. And City College will continue to have a structural budget deficit and funding gap,\" Wong said. \"Immediately after approving this tentative agreement, we must turn our attention to long-term funding.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While state leaders aren't receptive to funding the vision some locally have for CCSF, San Francisco elected officials are working behind the scenes to find new funding to pay for classes that California government won't foot the bill for.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>SF Supes Support Stepping in for CCSF\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Gordon Mar and Hillary Ronen view the binary of serving younger students and the broader workforce as a false choice. They're seeking city funding to pay for classes they think buttress the city's economy and its culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar said the funding will likely come from his previous legislation, the Workforce Education and Recovery Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm hopeful my colleagues and Mayor [London] Breed will support a significant expansion of WERF as an investment in City College and economic opportunity for residents and communities impacted by the pandemic,\" Mar told KQED in a statement. \"I continue to discuss the best way to accomplish this with City College leadership and other City officials and hope to bring a proposal forward in the coming weeks.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor's office said they are in conversations with the college's administration to \"better understand the long-term health and needs\" of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ronen framed her support for City College as sorely needed for San Francisco's economic recovery from the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As the city prepares for a long road to recovery ahead, our city government, our local businesses, and our residents alike will rely on City College's workforce training and professional development programs more than ever before,\" she said in a statement. \"It is in the City's own best interest to preserve these programs in order to fill our most urgent workforce needs and provide thousands of marginally employed San Franciscans with reliable pathways to job opportunities and financial stability.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There seems to be broad support at the Board of Supervisors to aid City College. Supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Aaron Peskin, Dean Preston, Connie Chan and Matt Haney all told KQED they support funding CCSF to maintain classes to some degree, though all mentioned a need to suss out either particular funding sources, or to what degree they'd fund CCSF classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need to get down to brass tacks. What do we need City College to do that the state doesn't? And how much do we need to pay for that?\" Mandelman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mandelman said that unlike the state, San Francisco believes City College should be a place for older and returning students, and that maintaining a large number of campuses across San Francisco's many diverse neighborhoods (another frequent target of state officials' desire to slash CCSF resources) may also be a need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Mandelman said, \"Somebody's gotta pay for it,\" and the city needs to \"expect more from City College\" in terms of managing its resources better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney said it's \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2020/06/breaking-state-will-not-retroactively-claw-back-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-san-francisco-other-counties/\">possible future tax windfalls\u003c/a> could help pay for City College classes San Francisco wants to maintain. A property transfer tax earmarked for City College may need to be better put to use to maintain classes as well, he said. \"City College has not received most of that money,\" Haney said. \"It just goes into the city general fund.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Peskin said he feels the state needs to change its tune on its priorities for City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11872330","label":"Students Worry for Cantonese Classes "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm willing to spend some city money, but the state needs to step up to the plate, too,\" he said, specifically calling for San Francisco Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu, as well as state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, to continue advocacy on behalf of City College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One supervisor who has a \u003cem>conditional\u003c/em> stance on City College is Supervisor Shamann Walton, who wants assurances that a new campus will be built in the southeast side of the city before he'll commit any funds to CCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not going to support them getting millions of dollars from the city and county of San Francisco if they're going to rip off the southeast sector,\" Walton \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">told The San Francisco Examiner a week ago\u003c/a>. Walton told KQED his comments stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar joined Walton in that feeling. She told KQED, of a CCSF funding effort, \"I would vote for it if there is a solid plan\" for accountability, and also \"for promises kept to the Bayview for investments in that campus from the bond approved last year.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hiccup aside, the number of city leaders indicating support for CCSF may mean San Francisco will put its money where its mouth is and fund the classes its city leaders have said for years its residents need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Erika Kelly contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872984/ccsf-approves-plan-to-avoid-layoffs-sf-mulls-permanent-fund-for-threatened-classes","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_29437","news_2863","news_20013","news_27626","news_19904","news_38","news_3855","news_2044"],"featImg":"news_11873075","label":"news"},"news_11872868":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872868","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872868","score":null,"sort":[1620577114000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts","title":"CCSF Faculty May Trade Layoffs for Across-the-Board Salary Cuts","publishDate":1620577114,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>A majority of the threatened layoffs at City College of San Francisco may soon be rescinded, but the deal came with a financial cost since faculty face the prospect of pay cuts across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, announced early Saturday morning, comes after days of bargaining meetings between City College of San Francisco’s faculty union and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members have until Monday afternoon to approve the deal. If approved, the board of trustees will vote on the proposal later that day.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alan Wong, City College of San Francisco trustee\"]'This agreement allows the college to continue its mission as a community college by preserving classes that serve all our diverse communities.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This agreement allows the college to continue its mission as a community college by preserving classes that serve all our diverse communities,\" said CCSF trustee Alan Wong in a text message Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed one-year deal means there will be no cuts for full-time faculty, and part-time faculty will mostly be rehired to their positions for the 2021-2022 school year. It also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses the community pushed to be preserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, all faculty will take a 4% to 11% salary cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're very happy that we've reached an agreement, but it actually is quite a painful agreement for our members,\" said Robin Pugh, a full-time instructor at City College. Her salary will be cut by about 10% this next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very positive thing as painful as it is for our members, but it doesn’t mean that the budget problem is permanently fixed,\" Pugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is only temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, while the clock keeps ticking over the next year, the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 and CCSF administration agreed to work together to preserve classes they say are needed to continue serving San Francisco more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the union framed the cuts\u003c/a> as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening in San Francisco, a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally, organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, saw students demand CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community, to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11872882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign reading 'Save Cantonese at CCSF' during a rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021 to demand that the end to layoffs for City College of San Francisco faculty. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\" [aside postID=news_11872330]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with her classmates and told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn CCSF may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians and Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college is currently facing declining enrollment, with its population peaking at 100,000 students in 2009. But a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That declining enrollment prompted a drop in funding. The previously announced faculty layoffs were designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"Student-Centered Funding Formula\" first implemented by state officials in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment — as was the case previously — but also on calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities. [aside tag=\"college\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date. Instead, school leaders may now turn to additional funding to buttress the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, one of the college's trustees, said he is committed to honoring the tentative agreement to work on fighting for more funding for the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Education is significantly underfunded in California,\" Wong said. \"City College and our stakeholder groups need to work hard as a team to secure more funding from city, state and federal sources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCSF board of trustees will hold a special meeting to vote on the agreement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Emily Hung contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A majority of the threatened layoffs at City College of San Francisco may soon be rescinded, but the deal came with a financial cost as faculty face the prospect of pay cuts across the board.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620671841,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":924},"headData":{"title":"CCSF Faculty May Trade Layoffs for Across-the-Board Salary Cuts | KQED","description":"A majority of the threatened layoffs at City College of San Francisco may soon be rescinded, but the deal came with a financial cost as faculty face the prospect of pay cuts across the board.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11872868 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11872868","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/09/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts/","disqusTitle":"CCSF Faculty May Trade Layoffs for Across-the-Board Salary Cuts","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/717bb53d-0001-4176-bc58-ad24011e9c6a/audio.mp3","path":"/news/11872868/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts","audioDuration":271000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A majority of the threatened layoffs at City College of San Francisco may soon be rescinded, but the deal came with a financial cost since faculty face the prospect of pay cuts across the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement, announced early Saturday morning, comes after days of bargaining meetings between City College of San Francisco’s faculty union and administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union members have until Monday afternoon to approve the deal. If approved, the board of trustees will vote on the proposal later that day.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'This agreement allows the college to continue its mission as a community college by preserving classes that serve all our diverse communities.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alan Wong, City College of San Francisco trustee","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This agreement allows the college to continue its mission as a community college by preserving classes that serve all our diverse communities,\" said CCSF trustee Alan Wong in a text message Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed one-year deal means there will be no cuts for full-time faculty, and part-time faculty will mostly be rehired to their positions for the 2021-2022 school year. It also means fewer changes to class schedules and programs, preserving courses the community pushed to be preserved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In exchange, all faculty will take a 4% to 11% salary cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're very happy that we've reached an agreement, but it actually is quite a painful agreement for our members,\" said Robin Pugh, a full-time instructor at City College. Her salary will be cut by about 10% this next school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a very positive thing as painful as it is for our members, but it doesn’t mean that the budget problem is permanently fixed,\" Pugh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal is only temporary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why, while the clock keeps ticking over the next year, the American Federation of Teachers Local 2121 and CCSF administration agreed to work together to preserve classes they say are needed to continue serving San Francisco more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Previously, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college\">the union framed the cuts\u003c/a> as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday evening in San Francisco, a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally, organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, saw students demand CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demonstrators also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community, to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872882\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11872882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpeg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpeg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48915_016_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign reading 'Save Cantonese at CCSF' during a rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021 to demand that the end to layoffs for City College of San Francisco faculty. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\" \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11872330","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with her classmates and told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn CCSF may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians and Asian Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college is currently facing declining enrollment, with its population peaking at 100,000 students in 2009. But a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That declining enrollment prompted a drop in funding. The previously announced faculty layoffs were designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"Student-Centered Funding Formula\" first implemented by state officials in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment — as was the case previously — but also on calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"college","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date. Instead, school leaders may now turn to additional funding to buttress the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, one of the college's trustees, said he is committed to honoring the tentative agreement to work on fighting for more funding for the college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Education is significantly underfunded in California,\" Wong said. \"City College and our stakeholder groups need to work hard as a team to secure more funding from city, state and federal sources.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CCSF board of trustees will hold a special meeting to vote on the agreement on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED's Emily Hung contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872868/ccsf-faculty-may-trade-layoffs-for-across-the-board-salary-cuts","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_29437","news_18085","news_20652","news_20013","news_27626","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11872880","label":"news"},"news_11872330":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11872330","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11872330","score":null,"sort":[1620427752000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college","title":"'My Heart Dropped': CCSF Students Rally to Protest Cuts That Threaten to Transform College","publishDate":1620427752,"format":"image","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Classes and jobs are on the chopping block at City College of San Francisco, as nearly 200 faculty and staff members may be laid off pending an upcoming vote of the college's Board of Trustees slated for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent preliminary layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators\u003c/a> in early March. Monday's vote by the trustees could begin the process of sending finalized layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">have said the cuts are necessary to stave off a state takeover\u003c/a> should City College not meet its fiscal responsibilities. In a time of financial uncertainty, they've argued publicly, the college must focus its mission on who it can best serve. According to the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty, the cuts could also affect hundreds of additional part-time workers, which would bring total layoffs to between 500 and 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes in nearly every subject the school teaches may be affected, from auto repair to astronomy, LGBT studies, photography, aircraft maintenance, health education and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Julia Quon, health worker and CCSF student\"]'When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped. Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. The City Attorney's Office successfully won against those accreditors in court in 2014, ensuring the college's survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, circumstances may have led the college to commit those same cuts itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has also faced declining enrollment, said Rosie Zepeda, a City College spokesperson. Its population peaked around 2009 at 100,000 students, but a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands, Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shrinking groups is the number of San Franciscans who said, in the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey, that they speak English \"less than very well,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2020/document/Multi-Year-Budget-and-Enrollment-Plan-Draft-2020-10-25-ADA.pdf\">according to a report by the college in November last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been operating with an overblown schedule which eventually led to over-expenditures in faculty salaries,\" Zepeda said. \"And so given the number of students that we have now, which has been going down so drastically, so greatly impacted by the pandemic ... We have to operate within that headcount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has tried the \"build it and they will come\" approach, Zepeda said, after San Francisco began offering Free City College. They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. And now the college may shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed layoffs could reduce the number of ethnic studies and ESL classes being offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a 'Fight for City College' sign during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faculty like Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza, who is among those who received layoff notices in March, are worried about the long-term impact on certain departments. She chairs the Philippine Studies Department, whose classes, she says, offer more than academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the conversations that we have students who are struggling with their identities, who are trying to find their space,” she said during a May 3 news conference organized by AFT 2121. “I get the privilege of hearing students tell me, you know what, I feel better about who I am and where I’m going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was borne out at Thursday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino American student at CCSF, the Philippine Studies department has given me an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with my Filipino roots... And has given me more reason and purpose to serve my community,\" said Joemar Olit, CCSF student and member of Anakbayan SF, a student organization for democracy in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino who was born in America, I did not know much about my Filipino background. Taking the classes offered by the Philippine Studies department has given me a better understanding of who I am. As a Filipino. As a Filipino American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other concerns is the future of ESL classes, which typically serve as a lifeline for many folks who are starting a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ESL program is critical for immigrants who need our support acquiring language skills,” said Fanny Law, an ESL instructor who also received a layoff notice in March, during the May 3 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rivera benefited from that program. An immigrant from El Salvador, she said taking English courses at City College’s Mission campus launched her path in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the departments that helped me a lot — ESL, Transitional Studies and Latino Services — they were key to my success,” she said during the May 3 news conference. “ESL classes are important because immigrants, we need to speak the language of the city to be able to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said City College staff guided her as she worked to earn her high school degree and complete the requirements to transfer to a four-year institution. She’s now studying math at UC Berkeley to become a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to fund these classes,” Rivera said, urging city officials and City College trustees against making the proposed cuts. “If you educate parents and the community, the future generations are gonna be educated, and that’s where the future of the city is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Speakers at Thursday's SF rally demanded City College trustees cancel planned layoffs and warned cuts could harm the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1620497209,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":39,"wordCount":1778},"headData":{"title":"'My Heart Dropped': CCSF Students Rally to Protest Cuts That Threaten to Transform College | KQED","description":"Speakers at Thursday's SF rally demanded City College trustees cancel planned layoffs and warned cuts could harm the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11872330 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11872330","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2021/05/07/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college/","disqusTitle":"'My Heart Dropped': CCSF Students Rally to Protest Cuts That Threaten to Transform College","path":"/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Classes and jobs are on the chopping block at City College of San Francisco, as nearly 200 faculty and staff members may be laid off pending an upcoming vote of the college's Board of Trustees slated for Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school, which faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming 2021-2022 academic year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-community-outraged-over-proposed-cuts-layoffs/\">sent preliminary layoff notices to 163 faculty members and 34 administrators\u003c/a> in early March. Monday's vote by the trustees could begin the process of sending finalized layoff notices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>College administrators \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/ccsf-seeks-city-funding-as-cuts-state-takeover-loom/\">have said the cuts are necessary to stave off a state takeover\u003c/a> should City College not meet its fiscal responsibilities. In a time of financial uncertainty, they've argued publicly, the college must focus its mission on who it can best serve. According to the American Federation of Teachers 2121, the union that represents CCSF faculty, the cuts could also affect hundreds of additional part-time workers, which would bring total layoffs to between 500 and 600 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Classes in nearly every subject the school teaches may be affected, from auto repair to astronomy, LGBT studies, photography, aircraft maintenance, health education and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped. Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Julia Quon, health worker and CCSF student","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union framed the cuts as a winnowing of the school's mission to a focus only on university transfer students instead of serving a broader community of older and returning students, or people training for new careers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"City College is the economic and jobs engine that students of color, low-income, and immigrants need to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic,\" the union wrote in an April 29 \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft2121.org/2021/04/what-will-your-ccsf-legacy-be-an-open-letter-to-the-ccsf-trustees/\">open letter\u003c/a> to CCSF trustees. \"Yet the District plans to rob over 30,000 students every semester of the educational opportunities they need.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency bargaining session between the union and CCSF is scheduled for Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a \"Fight Back for CCSF\" rally Thursday evening in San Francisco, which was organized as an AAPI and Black solidarity action by the student-led \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/ccsfcollective/\">CCSF Collective\u003c/a>, speakers demanded CCSF trustees cancel planned layoffs. They also turned the spotlight on the harm that class cuts may have on the city's immigrant communities in a time of rising anti-Asian hate, from Cantonese courses that train workers who help the city's Chinese community to some English as a Second Language classes considered crucial for new immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48914_015_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Quon, who organized a Save Cantonese at CCSF group with her fellow classmates, speaks at a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"When I heard that the Cantonese program was going to be defunded permanently, my heart dropped,\" said Julia Quon, a doula and birth worker who was raised in the Sunset District, at Thursday's rally. \"These Cantonese classes were not only a way for me to connect with my heritage, but also to connect with the families that I work with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quon, who started a \"Save Cantonese at CCSF\" group with a group of her classmates, told KQED earlier this week that it shocked her to learn City College may no longer offer Cantonese — especially in light of ongoing attacks against Asians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Cantonese classes are necessary in fighting anti-Asian hate because this language is spoken by so many residents in San Francisco,\" she said. \"If people are able to communicate with these victims and survivors in their own language, it helps give people a voice. Imagine being attacked, and going to the authorities, and every single person there has no idea what you're saying.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872791\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872791\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48910_010_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncle Damien Posey, founder of Us 4 Us Bay Area, speaks during a Fight for City College rally outside of Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Uncle Damien Posey, community organizer and founder of \u003ca href=\"https://www.us4usbayarea.org/\">Us 4 Us Bay Area\u003c/a>, discussed his own personal history as someone who was formerly incarcerated, and described CCSF as being there for him when he needed it most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I came home from doing 10 years, you know who was there for me? City College,\" Posey said at Thursday's rally. \"City College was there for me ... Access to education is absolutely the last thing that should be cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The class cuts at CCSF are designed to bring the college in line with a state funding scheme called the \"\u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Student-Centered-Funding-Formula\">Student-Centered Funding Formula\u003c/a>\" first implemented in 2019 that prioritizes funding not only by enrollment, as was the case previously, but also calculations including \"student success\" as measured by certificates, associate degrees or students transferring to four-year colleges and universities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCSF was given a reprieve from mandates to meet that formula until 2023 — but the college is now tasked with streamlining classes to ready itself for that date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The state sees the school as a school that should not have more than 180 full-time faculty, but the school has 555 full-time faculty,\" Dr. Rajen Vurdien, interim chancellor of CCSF, said in a Zoom town hall meeting in March, which AFT 2121 tweeted in a video. \"I have had multiple conversations with the state chancellor, with the department of the treasury, they've all said exactly the same thing: City College will learn to live within its means.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left out in that restructuring, opponents argue, are those who explore City College's vast offering of courses, trying to figure out their future careers by sampling a bit of this, and a bit of that, college faculty argue. Noncredit courses that focus on workforce training, which the state's community college system does not broadly offer to the same degree as City College, also face cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872807\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"students hold rally signs\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48913_013_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a sign that says, 'Fight for City College' during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>These changes are similar to ones that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/upshot/city-college-of-san-francisco-survives.html\">accreditors wanted CCSF to make when they threatened the school with closure in 2012\u003c/a>, a threat that very nearly toppled the institution. The City Attorney's Office successfully won against those accreditors in court in 2014, ensuring the college's survival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, however, circumstances may have led the college to commit those same cuts itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has also faced declining enrollment, said Rosie Zepeda, a City College spokesperson. Its population peaked around 2009 at 100,000 students, but a subsequent threat to the college's accreditation, demographic changes in San Francisco itself and, finally, the pandemic, led to a decline in enrollment by tens of thousands, Zepeda said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the shrinking groups is the number of San Franciscans who said, in the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent American Community Survey, that they speak English \"less than very well,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.ccsf.edu/sites/default/files/2020/document/Multi-Year-Budget-and-Enrollment-Plan-Draft-2020-10-25-ADA.pdf\">according to a report by the college in November last year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've been operating with an overblown schedule which eventually led to over-expenditures in faculty salaries,\" Zepeda said. \"And so given the number of students that we have now, which has been going down so drastically, so greatly impacted by the pandemic ... We have to operate within that headcount.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The college has tried the \"build it and they will come\" approach, Zepeda said, after San Francisco began offering Free City College. They offered robust classes, but students just weren't taking them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That didn't come to fruition at all,\" she said. And now the college may shrink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed layoffs could reduce the number of ethnic studies and ESL classes being offered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11872809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11872809\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS48906_006_SanFrancisco_CCSFRally_05062021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A demonstrator holds a 'Fight for City College' sign during a rally outside Mission High School in San Francisco on May 6, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Faculty like Dr. Lily Ann Villaraza, who is among those who received layoff notices in March, are worried about the long-term impact on certain departments. She chairs the Philippine Studies Department, whose classes, she says, offer more than academic support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s the conversations that we have students who are struggling with their identities, who are trying to find their space,” she said during a May 3 news conference organized by AFT 2121. “I get the privilege of hearing students tell me, you know what, I feel better about who I am and where I’m going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That sentiment was borne out at Thursday's rally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino American student at CCSF, the Philippine Studies department has given me an opportunity to rediscover and reconnect with my Filipino roots... And has given me more reason and purpose to serve my community,\" said Joemar Olit, CCSF student and member of Anakbayan SF, a student organization for democracy in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"As a Filipino who was born in America, I did not know much about my Filipino background. Taking the classes offered by the Philippine Studies department has given me a better understanding of who I am. As a Filipino. As a Filipino American.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other concerns is the future of ESL classes, which typically serve as a lifeline for many folks who are starting a new life in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ESL program is critical for immigrants who need our support acquiring language skills,” said Fanny Law, an ESL instructor who also received a layoff notice in March, during the May 3 news conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Rivera benefited from that program. An immigrant from El Salvador, she said taking English courses at City College’s Mission campus launched her path in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the departments that helped me a lot — ESL, Transitional Studies and Latino Services — they were key to my success,” she said during the May 3 news conference. “ESL classes are important because immigrants, we need to speak the language of the city to be able to give back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera said City College staff guided her as she worked to earn her high school degree and complete the requirements to transfer to a four-year institution. She’s now studying math at UC Berkeley to become a math teacher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city needs to fund these classes,” Rivera said, urging city officials and City College trustees against making the proposed cuts. “If you educate parents and the community, the future generations are gonna be educated, and that’s where the future of the city is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11872330/my-heart-dropped-ccsf-students-rally-to-protest-cuts-that-threaten-to-transform-college","authors":["11690","182"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_29437","news_2863","news_27504","news_20013","news_27626","news_19904","news_29434","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11872738","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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