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Skyline View The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, California
September 13, 2012
Volume XXXI - Issue 2
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Skyline expected to pass accreditation CCSF students safe to transfer to Skyline, but enrollment hasn’t changed by Diane Thao TSV Social Media Editor
Jacqueline Escobar, transfer degree counselor, speaks to Anthony Ma, a student of Skyline College.
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New degree of transfer opens pathway to CSU A guaranteed admission to a state four-year after community college. by Renee Abu-Zaghibra & Vince Biancalana TSV news editor & tsv chief copy editor
A new program has been introduced to community colleges of California which allows students wanting to transfer to a CSU an easier path to being accepted. The program commences 2014 and will be necessary for students starting at community college this year. The Associate Degree of Transfer was created to enable community college students a guaranteed path to the CSU of their choice with priority admission. This also forbids the California
State University from having students take classes at their campuse that have met the same requirements as those they took at their community college. Students will not have to take any pointless courses to save time on getting their degree and transferring. This process streamlines the transfer process by ensuring students only take the required 60 units at community college. Students must still follow guidelines hashed out in the IGETC. The degree of transfer will not
change anything for students expecting to transfer to UC, but still counts as an Associate’s degree. The majors that are involved with the transfer program right now are Administration of Justice, Art History, Business, Communication Studies, Early Childhood Education/Child Development, English, Geology, History, Kinesiology/PE, Mathematics, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, Studio Art, and Theatre. The list will expand later in the year. “In general, I think it’s a good program. I don’t see anything wrong
with it as of right now,” said Mark Torres. This program changes the basic purpose of community college in that previously, community colleges were a place for failing students and local community seeking enrichment to take low-cost classes with the option of transfer. This program will transform community colleges into tertiaryschooling geared towards preparing students for four-year college.
As City College of San Francisco (CCSF) continues to be scrutinized since the warning of a possible campus closure issued by the Committee of Accreditation, Skyline prepares for their upcoming evaluation. Even with all the problems clouding around CCSF, there was shockingly not an increase of enrollment here at Skyline. With CCSF less than 10 miles away, you would think students would be swarming to nearby colleges. Currently 10,167 students are enrolled this semester at Skyline, whereas last spring we had 10,795 students. “What role the possible closure of CCSF has played in our current enrollment is difficult to say without doing some additional analysis.” said David Ulate, Interim Dean of Office Planning, Research & Institutional Effectiveness. CCSF was put on warning for several reasons, some of which had been around for some time. They had failed to fix shortcomings that the commission had required them to. The downfall of this institute was a lack of action on the policy level instead of micro-management elsewhere, such as individual class schedules, planning issues and government problems. “We are very different from City College of San Francisco.” said Donna Bestock, co-chair of Accreditation Accreditation continued on Page 2
Commemoration for 9/11 emergency first responders by Renee Abu-Zaghibra TSV News editor
A memorial at Skyline College was held on Tuesday Sept. 11 by the ASSC in honor of the emergency first responders and the civilians who died in the 9/11 attack. The ASSC’s commissioner of activities, Kayla Louis, put together an event to walk back and forth along the quad, up and down flights of stairs, in order to recreate the walk up 110 flights the emergency first responders climbed. The walk started around 10 AM in the quad and the firefighters in training as well as other participants walked up the stairs in front of build-
ing 8 and back down. They then walked down the stairs by building 2 and back up the staircase. They did this for over an hour until they marched up and down the stairway 110 flights. Students from the City College of San Francisco’s fire academy and fire science programs were there in uniform to honor the victims as they marched. Students from Skyline College participated as well in the walk. “This was a good way to keep them in mind and remember what they did,” said David Hartzell, a CCSF student of the fire academy. “I look up to what they did and the sacrifices they took.” As they marched across the quad they passed signs that held the names
of the people who died in the tragic attack in New York City. The list held almost 2,985 names of the people commemorated. “This was a great event to remember the people who died because I’m sure people remember where they were when it happened,” said Jose Luis Sanchez Sosa, President of the ASSC. “It was a great honor to be a part of this.” The on campus accreditation visitation will take place in Fall 2013. The visiting team composed of faculty and administrators who are specialists in various areas investigates and certifies it with recommendation.
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CCSF Fire Academy students walking across the quad.