Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs
A California community college is partnering with out-of-state universities to offer an online path to low-cost bachelor’s degrees.
Also on Community College Spotlight: Faced with a $15 million budget deficit and the threat of losing accreditation, City College of San Francisco will return more than 60 faculty department chairs to full-time teaching.
On many community college campuses, “corruption, cronyism, abuse of power, and fiefdom-building constitute business as usual,” writes Rob Jenkins, a Georgia Perimeter College English professor. Feudalism and Soviet-style dictatorship are the most common governance models, he writes.
Facing the loss of accreditation for mismanagement, City College of San Francisco has proposed an improvement plan that includes spending less on enrichment classes and collecting $400,000 a year in unpaid tuition.
City College of San Francisco could lose accreditation and close this spring, because nobody’s in charge under California’s “shared governance” model. Forty-six faculty committees develop policies that must be approved by an executive council — or a ful faculty vote.
Plagued with weak leadership and budget deficits, City College of San Francisco could lose accreditation and close within a year, stranding 90,000 students.
Also on Community College Spotlight: Job training isn’t the only mission of community colleges.
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