A May Day reprinting of an article by Jack Rasmus concluded: That condition of the 100 million plus working families in America today, International Labor Day 2014, is as lamentable as the accelerating accrual of income and wealth by the 1% is disgusting. Of course, the two trends are not mutually exclusive but directly related.…
“April is the… ” nope, not going there! Michael DeCesare posted a letter from women faculty at Merrimack College to the president of the University of Southern Maine that includes this: We write to request that you rescind the cuts you have made to the fulltime faculty in the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social…
This review of the past year, month by month, started with January, found here. A guest post by Cecil Canton toward the beginning of the month describes the “cultural taxation” faced by faculty from underrepresented groups, “a way to describe the unique burden placed on ethnic minority faculty in carrying out our responsibility for service…
On Friday, five days of testimony concluded in the trial of San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s case against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which last year denied accreditation to the City College of San Francisco, with nearly 80,000 students, effective July 1, 2014, a decision that is now on hold…
On Friday Judge Curtis Karnow refused to halt the October 27 trial that will determine if the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) properly evaluated City College of San Francisco (CCSF) before voting to revoke its accreditation. (Links to my previous posts on the CCSF accreditation controversy will be found at the conclusion…
The following post by Richard B. Simon, Professor of English at City College of San Francisco, appeared initially on the Forum Blog of the California Part-Time Faculty Association (CPFA) and is reposted with the author’s permission. CPFA serves approximately 40,000 Non-tenure Track Faculty in California Community Colleges and has been advocating for Part-time faculty in…
Yesterday I posted another in my continuing series of entries on the accrediting situation at City College of San Francisco (CCSF), in which I reported on indications that the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) had “blinked,” proposing new guidelines that would establish a new “accreditation restoration status.” My post included the text…
It’s been a bit more than two months since I’ve posted on the continuing conflict between faculty, staff, and students at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which has threatened to revoke CCSF’s accreditation on what many — including San Francisco’s City Attorney and other…
Readers of this blog know that I have been reporting occasionally on the continuing conflict between faculty, staff, and students at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) and the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), which has threatened to revoke CCSF’s accreditation on what many — including San Francisco’s City Attorney and other…
Guest Blogger Beth Evans is an Associate Professor of Library Science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Whether you believe that a library on your campus supports learning and research through print and electronic collections, or that the information literacy skills learned through research are integral to a college education, your…