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Skyline View The Voice of Skyline College, San Bruno, California
www.theskylineview.com
August 30, 2012
Volume XXXI - Issue 1
CCSF accredition at risk
Possible campus shut-down by Will Nacouzi TSV Multimedia Editor
Daniel Chee/ The Skyline View
Transfer Center sign in building 2.
CSU restricts spring admission
Due budgetary constrants the California State University system limits enrollment by Renee Abu-Zaghibra TSV News Editor
California State University plans to close admissions allowing only a limited number of California residents for the spring of 2013, because of budget cuts made to campuses. Massive budget cuts have caused 10 of the 23 campuses included in the CSU system to allow a limited number of students to enroll. The small amount of students they are admitting differ between each campus and each program, but one of the few exceptions are college students transferring from California community colleges who have already received an “associated degree of transfer.” Colleges have just
recently begun offering this degree of transfer and therefore not many students have earned the ability to transfer yet. “Campuses are closed to most students, however, a limited number of students are being admitted — mainly those who earned Associate for Transfer degrees from California Community Colleges,” said Erik Fallis, media relations manager of California State University. “This exception likely has the most direct impact on your peers at Skyline College.” Senate Bill 1440, which was passed in September 2010, created the degree in order to form a smoother path for community college students who want to transfer into state universities. In many
community colleges, the conditions for an associate degree are different from what is required to transfer to CSU or the University of California. There are 5 programs that have been approved of the transfer degree, while others are still in process. Jacqueline Escobar, the transfer center director, recommends to apply for the degree in this fall semester to give the transfer center “a heads up” on who will be completing the associated degree of transfer. Workshops will be held about the degree and will help the students understand the different programs, the advantages, and who benefits. “We encourage students to apply for the degree because it has
many benefits for students,” said Escobar. According to Erik Fallis, CSU is not in favor of limiting access to higher education and does not think that it is in the best interest of California. Regrettably, the university’s state support has cut about $1 million since 2007-2008. The state government is imposing that CSU is to make difficult compromises “between access, affordability and quality”. The 2012-13 state budget includes a mid-year budget cut for CSU depending on the result of Proposition 30 on the November ballot. If voters reject the measure, the CSU will be cut by an additional $250 million, meaning CSU continued on Page 2
The San Matean ends production after 84 years Journalism programs are cut from CSM curriculum due to little enrollment by Vince BiancaLana TSV Staff Writer
College of San Mateo will be without a student-run free press for the first time in 84 years as of the 2012 fall semester. The San Matean and the four classes offered which assembled the editorial are cancelled due to low enrollment. The former advisor to the Journalism program, Ed Remitz, has reportedly taken the opportunity to retire after more than twenty years of supervising the production of the paper. He is currently unavailable for comment. “The paper was cancelled because less than 20 students were enrolled in the production classes.” Varsha Ranjit, former Managing
Editor for the spring 2012 semester said, “The paper had been on the verge of extinction.” The San Matean has recorded the history of life on the campus of CSM since 1928 and has won numerous prestigious awards including one from the Society of Professional Journalists for coverage of the San Bruno gas explosion and resulting fire. At least one former staff writer has gone on to write for the San Francisco Examiner. The small team of staff has received support over Facebook and through an online petition set up by Kayla Figard, former editorin-chief. Their online edition is still active; however it will deactivate CSM continued on Page 2
Stephanie Hall/ The Skyline View
A sign directs people to an extinct newspaper.
This July 2, 2012 the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior College notified City College of San Francisco that it unless it addresses fully the problems identified by the commission in 2006, it will close next year, 2013, at the end of the spring semester. The commission has requested that City submit an special report to the commission, which will show how City plans to address these problems, this special report is due this coming October, 15th. Out of a total of eight problems, that the commission identified in 2006, City College has failed to address three of them while only partially addressing the other five, which the commission found out this year in March, when it sent a team to City College. In addition to these the team also made an additional 14 recommendations. The first of the unaddressed point was the question of City’s Financial Planning and Stability, while it is not in the red, the accreditation team’s, 2012, report illustrated that current spending by City College did not match revenues and as a result the College has been forced to borrow money in the short term in order to meet current financial needs. The second unaddressed point, in the words of the team was “Physical Facilities Contingency Planning” only services to reinforce the above point by showing that City College does not have the financial reserves to weather any unforeseen incident in the future, especially with the current state of the economy. The last unaddressed point, is the “Physical Facilities Maintenances Planning” or in other words, does a college have the funding to operate and maintain existing facilities and any new existing facilities to be built in the future, thus in this case funding will be set aside for this. However City College lacks any adequate funds for this and also lacks the funds for scheduled maintenance of existing facilities. “I don’t think that they are in danger of closing or losing their accreditation at this point.” said Dean Joe Morella said “they’ll need a good plan and they’ll have to do what they need to do in order to keep their accreditation.” These three points aside, the commission noted that City College does a great job in serving the needs of CCSF continued on Page 2