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Board of Supervisors urges restoration of elected trustees at City College; students and faculty decry secret decisions
Summary
Supervisor Campos introduced a resolution urging the state-appointed leadership at City College of San Francisco to restore the elected board of trustees and bring back public accountability after a series of administrative decisions, course cuts and pay changes drew criticism from students, faculty and former trustees.
Supervisor David Campos introduced a resolution on Feb. 11 calling on the state chancellor and the City College leadership to restore the college’s duly elected board of trustees and to return decisionmaking to an open, public process.
Campos told the Board of Supervisors that City College’s special trustee has been making major decisions without public input since the Board of Governors removed powers from the elected trustees in July 2013. Campos cited recent reporting and campus complaints that administrators received raises while faculty wages fell and that student payment-policy changes forced some low-income students to drop classes.
The resolution drew…
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