“City College is not closing. We will not let that happen,” Board of Trustees President John Rizzo told the dozens of students, alumni, employees and others who attended the meeting at the main Ocean Avenue campus, one of nine that dot the city. Each trustee repeated the reassuring message, hoping to calm fears that have spawned a “Save City College” movement in the week since the regional Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges concluded that City College is so badly managed and financially unstable it should shut down if its extensive problems aren’t addressed by March 15. The trustees and Fisher also emphasized the work before them, including learning to manage the college better, most likely serving fewer students on fewer campuses and rescuing the school’s dangerously low reserves.

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by Nanette Asimov, The San Francisco Chronicle.

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