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Report Card On SF Community College Board Of Trustees
San Francisco City College HEAT and The SF City College Collective have issued a Report Card on the San Francisco City College Board of Directors
From Rick Smith AFT 2121 CCSF Faculty Member
Greetings,
Two City College of San Francisco organizations, The Higher Education Action Team (HEAT) made up of faculty and concerned community members, and the student organization, the CCSF Collective, have collaborated to put out a report card on CCSF’s Board of Trustees. Please share it with people you know who live in San Francisco and who are voters.
The two-page report card should be part of this email. To make it bigger, click on it and enlarge it. It is also attached.
We requested responses to the report card from all trustee candidates. Six responded. Their responses are below under the report card.
FYI: Four candidates did not respond to the report card. They are the two incumbents running for re-election, Shanell Williams and Tom Temprano, and San Francisco supervisor aides, Alan Wong and Han Zou.
These four candidates also did not participate in a candidates’ forum organized by students. Williams responded to the forum invitation and declined to participate because she had a Democratic Party meeting scheduled at the same time. The other three did not even bother responding to the invitation.
Both incumbents, Williams and Temprano, were not endorsed by CCSF’s faculty union, AFT 2121.
The incumbents have a terrible record as board members and will hopefully be defeated. Most importantly, they have gone along with the massive number of class cuts. They voted to hire Rocha as chancellor over the objections, based on his record, of many faculty and community members. They voted to close CCSF’s Fort Mason campus to save money. That action may end up increasing the college’s budget deficit due to the loss of state funding for it. They did not publicly advocate for funding from the city to restore some 300 classes suddenly cut from the Spring 2020 last November by then CCSF Chancellor Rocha. Rocha emailed San Francisco’s mayor and supervisors discouraging this funding. The funding received a favorable vote from 7 of 11 supervisors. However, the mayor vetoed the measure. One supervisor opposing the funding was former CCSF Trustee Mandelman for whom incumbent Temprano works as his chief of staff.
Four candidates will be elected. If you are a San Francisco resident, I hope you vote for Anita Martinez who strikes me as the strongest and most knowledgeable of all of the candidates.
Again, please take the time to share the report card with people you know and encourage them to do the same thing.
Thanks.
Rick Baum
________________________
As a college professor and former senior university administrator, I wholeheartedly agree with your report card grades and support your endeavor to elect better leadership for the Community College Board. The current Trustees have failed our community with year-after-year of poor fiscal management, the politization of an education board, and the privatization of our college. Their egregious choices have now bankrupted City College, placed our accreditation at-risk (again), and caused for the unnecessary suffering of thousands of students, and that was all prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Count on me to make the right decisions and never repeat their mistakes.
-Victor Olivieri
________________________
Protecting educational opportunity and student access during the pandemic, putting students first, and responding to the community are critical components in ensuring that City College of San Francisco is thriving. Unfortunately, the Board of Trustees has failed to successfully execute and address these critical components for our college community. Although the Board of Trustees has brought in some resources to the college, such as securing Free City and the facilities bond, new leadership on the Board is needed to ensure greater transparency and accountability, along with an unwavering commitment to finding community-oriented solutions.
-Aliya Chisti
________________________
Your report card rating the performance of the CCSF Board of Trustees identifies specific issues under each category that I have addressed in a variety of public formats including endorsement interviews, community meetings, Board meetings, and press conferences. These issues resonate with San Franciscans who raise them if I have not had the opportunity to raise them myself.
I am running because I hope to be a member of a Board of Trustees that will address the issues. Perhaps working together we can raise our grade point average to at least satisfactory while we aim for an A.
-Anita Martinez
_________________________
I agree that on all important metrics current City College Trustees earn an “F.” But this is not surprising. The outcome (a failing institution) is perfectly correlated to the input (a Board of politicians lacking relevant experience). I will bring A+ expertise, independence and 22+ years of Board experience to CCSF, ensuring it survives and thrives. I will work tirelessly to ensure that the CCSF Board hires a permanent chancellor, balances the budget (not just with fiscal discipline, but with creative revenue-generating opportunities), opens the lines of communication with students and faculty, and commits to operating with transparency.
-Marie Hurabiell
________________________
The report card shows the many ways in which the Board has neglected the people that elected them. I am running because the last-minute cuts harmed thousands of teachers and students — my classmates — and yet the Board made these changes with no warning, limited ability of the public to comment, and zero accountability. We all know there will be hard decisions ahead: the budget is in bad shape, and enrollment and funding are falling. But I will pledge, as Trustee, to listen to stakeholders, be transparent about the Board's plans, and be a responsible steward of City College.
-Jeanette Quick ?婕安
___________________________
Reading the Trustees Report Card was distressing. As a Candidate for CCSF Board and an ally to the CCSF Collective and HEAT, I take this evaluation seriously.
The Board has failed to put students first. Trustees must value students and faculty. The current Board’s inability to represent students who depend on CCSF and ensure their success risks the institution’s accreditation.
The challenges of solving CCSF’s systemic issues are daunting but not impossible. Action is required. Returning City College to the high academic standards needed to serve its students, faculty, and communities should be the priority of any CCSF Board Candidate.
-Geramye Teeter
Greetings,
Two City College of San Francisco organizations, The Higher Education Action Team (HEAT) made up of faculty and concerned community members, and the student organization, the CCSF Collective, have collaborated to put out a report card on CCSF’s Board of Trustees. Please share it with people you know who live in San Francisco and who are voters.
The two-page report card should be part of this email. To make it bigger, click on it and enlarge it. It is also attached.
We requested responses to the report card from all trustee candidates. Six responded. Their responses are below under the report card.
FYI: Four candidates did not respond to the report card. They are the two incumbents running for re-election, Shanell Williams and Tom Temprano, and San Francisco supervisor aides, Alan Wong and Han Zou.
These four candidates also did not participate in a candidates’ forum organized by students. Williams responded to the forum invitation and declined to participate because she had a Democratic Party meeting scheduled at the same time. The other three did not even bother responding to the invitation.
Both incumbents, Williams and Temprano, were not endorsed by CCSF’s faculty union, AFT 2121.
The incumbents have a terrible record as board members and will hopefully be defeated. Most importantly, they have gone along with the massive number of class cuts. They voted to hire Rocha as chancellor over the objections, based on his record, of many faculty and community members. They voted to close CCSF’s Fort Mason campus to save money. That action may end up increasing the college’s budget deficit due to the loss of state funding for it. They did not publicly advocate for funding from the city to restore some 300 classes suddenly cut from the Spring 2020 last November by then CCSF Chancellor Rocha. Rocha emailed San Francisco’s mayor and supervisors discouraging this funding. The funding received a favorable vote from 7 of 11 supervisors. However, the mayor vetoed the measure. One supervisor opposing the funding was former CCSF Trustee Mandelman for whom incumbent Temprano works as his chief of staff.
Four candidates will be elected. If you are a San Francisco resident, I hope you vote for Anita Martinez who strikes me as the strongest and most knowledgeable of all of the candidates.
Again, please take the time to share the report card with people you know and encourage them to do the same thing.
Thanks.
Rick Baum
________________________
As a college professor and former senior university administrator, I wholeheartedly agree with your report card grades and support your endeavor to elect better leadership for the Community College Board. The current Trustees have failed our community with year-after-year of poor fiscal management, the politization of an education board, and the privatization of our college. Their egregious choices have now bankrupted City College, placed our accreditation at-risk (again), and caused for the unnecessary suffering of thousands of students, and that was all prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Count on me to make the right decisions and never repeat their mistakes.
-Victor Olivieri
________________________
Protecting educational opportunity and student access during the pandemic, putting students first, and responding to the community are critical components in ensuring that City College of San Francisco is thriving. Unfortunately, the Board of Trustees has failed to successfully execute and address these critical components for our college community. Although the Board of Trustees has brought in some resources to the college, such as securing Free City and the facilities bond, new leadership on the Board is needed to ensure greater transparency and accountability, along with an unwavering commitment to finding community-oriented solutions.
-Aliya Chisti
________________________
Your report card rating the performance of the CCSF Board of Trustees identifies specific issues under each category that I have addressed in a variety of public formats including endorsement interviews, community meetings, Board meetings, and press conferences. These issues resonate with San Franciscans who raise them if I have not had the opportunity to raise them myself.
I am running because I hope to be a member of a Board of Trustees that will address the issues. Perhaps working together we can raise our grade point average to at least satisfactory while we aim for an A.
-Anita Martinez
_________________________
I agree that on all important metrics current City College Trustees earn an “F.” But this is not surprising. The outcome (a failing institution) is perfectly correlated to the input (a Board of politicians lacking relevant experience). I will bring A+ expertise, independence and 22+ years of Board experience to CCSF, ensuring it survives and thrives. I will work tirelessly to ensure that the CCSF Board hires a permanent chancellor, balances the budget (not just with fiscal discipline, but with creative revenue-generating opportunities), opens the lines of communication with students and faculty, and commits to operating with transparency.
-Marie Hurabiell
________________________
The report card shows the many ways in which the Board has neglected the people that elected them. I am running because the last-minute cuts harmed thousands of teachers and students — my classmates — and yet the Board made these changes with no warning, limited ability of the public to comment, and zero accountability. We all know there will be hard decisions ahead: the budget is in bad shape, and enrollment and funding are falling. But I will pledge, as Trustee, to listen to stakeholders, be transparent about the Board's plans, and be a responsible steward of City College.
-Jeanette Quick ?婕安
___________________________
Reading the Trustees Report Card was distressing. As a Candidate for CCSF Board and an ally to the CCSF Collective and HEAT, I take this evaluation seriously.
The Board has failed to put students first. Trustees must value students and faculty. The current Board’s inability to represent students who depend on CCSF and ensure their success risks the institution’s accreditation.
The challenges of solving CCSF’s systemic issues are daunting but not impossible. Action is required. Returning City College to the high academic standards needed to serve its students, faculty, and communities should be the priority of any CCSF Board Candidate.
-Geramye Teeter
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An Open Letter Regarding The CCSF Board Of Trustee Elections
https://www.ccsfcollective.org/open-letter-regarding-the-ccsf-trustee-elections
When student organizers were planning the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Board of Trustees Candidates Forum, our intention was to finally get answers from people running for positions that will allow them to make the highest decisions for CCSF. We did not want any fluff.
We wanted commitments to ongoing advocacy efforts, and we wanted them to address the current practices of the trustees and administration. We want actions right now, before the elections. We want trustees who will act and respond, and be present. Noticeably, incumbents Shanell Williams, Tom Temprano, and their slate mates Han Zou and Alan Wong were absent.
To plan the Forum, we collaborated with student organizers from the Black Student Union, the Disabled Students Program and Services, the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, the CCSF Facilities Committee, CCSF PUSO, CCSF4All, the John Adams Associated Students Council, and the CCSF Collective, as well as the African American Studies Department Ambassador and the Student Trustee.
It was motivating to hear candidates Anita Martinez, Geramye Teeter, Jeanette Quick, Aliya Chisti, and Victor Olivieri--the candidates who did show up at the Forum--agree to organize a town hall addressing the current board, even more so when they agreed to write resolutions in support of the Black Student Union, the Affirmative Action Task Force, and the Philippine Human Rights Act.
As the US elections approach with threats to all we value, including racial justice, food security, and immigrant rights, we cannot afford to gamble with the future of our public education. The CCSF trustees have a direct impact on student lives. Ask the African American Studies Department students who still do not have their elected chair in a full-time position, Fort Mason students who lost their entire campus, Southeast Campus students who did not have any classes, immigrant non-credit ESL students who experienced daunting registration issues and who suffered from deep cuts to their department. Ask all students who are waiting for the College to post an official statement from CCSF in support of Black Lives Matter.
We, as students and active community members, know exactly what is happening at our school. We know the performance of the current Board of Trustees, what downturn our school has undergone in the last four years, and what we are looking for when we vote for the four open seats on the Board of our College.
We are being told to vote like our lives and futures depend on it. This November, it does. City College’s and our future depends on every single vote cast in the next month. We need your help to elect the right people, people who actually care to show up now for students.
We need candidates like Anita Martinez who has been a CCSF faculty member, a union organizer and president, and who comes with leadership experience at two other Bay Area community colleges. There are also other candidates who have actually shared specific ideas, plans, and have not skated by on political campaign rhetoric.
Incumbents Shanell Williams and Tom Temprano voted to give Chancellor Mark Rocha a golden parachute though he left the College in disarray. They voted to close the Fort Mason campus. They allowed the gutting of the Older Adult program at CCSF. They stood by while the non- credit ESL program suffered egregious cuts. They hired expensive consultants, and they neglected financial governance/transparency by not hiring a budget analyst/Chief Financial Officer for the entire 2019-2020 school year. The current board and candidates seeking re-election must be held accountable for their votes and decisions.
We at City College are tired of aspiring politicians using our beloved educational institution as a stepping stone. We want trustees who will show up for us. Now and in the future.
-CCSF Collective members Jess Nguyen & EK
https://www.ccsfcollective.org/open-letter-regarding-the-ccsf-trustee-elections
When student organizers were planning the City College of San Francisco (CCSF) Board of Trustees Candidates Forum, our intention was to finally get answers from people running for positions that will allow them to make the highest decisions for CCSF. We did not want any fluff.
We wanted commitments to ongoing advocacy efforts, and we wanted them to address the current practices of the trustees and administration. We want actions right now, before the elections. We want trustees who will act and respond, and be present. Noticeably, incumbents Shanell Williams, Tom Temprano, and their slate mates Han Zou and Alan Wong were absent.
To plan the Forum, we collaborated with student organizers from the Black Student Union, the Disabled Students Program and Services, the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, the CCSF Facilities Committee, CCSF PUSO, CCSF4All, the John Adams Associated Students Council, and the CCSF Collective, as well as the African American Studies Department Ambassador and the Student Trustee.
It was motivating to hear candidates Anita Martinez, Geramye Teeter, Jeanette Quick, Aliya Chisti, and Victor Olivieri--the candidates who did show up at the Forum--agree to organize a town hall addressing the current board, even more so when they agreed to write resolutions in support of the Black Student Union, the Affirmative Action Task Force, and the Philippine Human Rights Act.
As the US elections approach with threats to all we value, including racial justice, food security, and immigrant rights, we cannot afford to gamble with the future of our public education. The CCSF trustees have a direct impact on student lives. Ask the African American Studies Department students who still do not have their elected chair in a full-time position, Fort Mason students who lost their entire campus, Southeast Campus students who did not have any classes, immigrant non-credit ESL students who experienced daunting registration issues and who suffered from deep cuts to their department. Ask all students who are waiting for the College to post an official statement from CCSF in support of Black Lives Matter.
We, as students and active community members, know exactly what is happening at our school. We know the performance of the current Board of Trustees, what downturn our school has undergone in the last four years, and what we are looking for when we vote for the four open seats on the Board of our College.
We are being told to vote like our lives and futures depend on it. This November, it does. City College’s and our future depends on every single vote cast in the next month. We need your help to elect the right people, people who actually care to show up now for students.
We need candidates like Anita Martinez who has been a CCSF faculty member, a union organizer and president, and who comes with leadership experience at two other Bay Area community colleges. There are also other candidates who have actually shared specific ideas, plans, and have not skated by on political campaign rhetoric.
Incumbents Shanell Williams and Tom Temprano voted to give Chancellor Mark Rocha a golden parachute though he left the College in disarray. They voted to close the Fort Mason campus. They allowed the gutting of the Older Adult program at CCSF. They stood by while the non- credit ESL program suffered egregious cuts. They hired expensive consultants, and they neglected financial governance/transparency by not hiring a budget analyst/Chief Financial Officer for the entire 2019-2020 school year. The current board and candidates seeking re-election must be held accountable for their votes and decisions.
We at City College are tired of aspiring politicians using our beloved educational institution as a stepping stone. We want trustees who will show up for us. Now and in the future.
-CCSF Collective members Jess Nguyen & EK
For more information:
https://www.ccsfcollective.org/open-letter...
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