City College of San Francisco Is Told It Will Lose Accreditation in 2014
Thelma Scott-Skillman, interim chancellor of the college, said that it had made “a tremendous amount of progress” in meeting the commission’s demands but that progress was “still far short of what needed to occur.” She nonetheless offered assurances that the institution remained accredited for at least the coming year and would be enrolling students in the fall. At a separate news conference, Josh Pechthalt, president of the California Federation of Teachers, said his union was considering a legal challenge to the commission’s decision, on top of its existing complaint to the Education Department. Alisa Messer, president of American Federation of Teachers Local 2121, which represents faculty members at the college, announced plans for a protest march next Tuesday in downtown San Francisco…
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by Peter Schmidt, The Chronicle of Higher Education.