Yesterday, more than 100 AFT 2121 members, students, and community supporters gathered at Chinatown Campus for a powerful press conference denouncing the Chancellor’s cuts to our fall schedule, and demanding a restoration of student access to in-demand classes. Chinatown student Lucy Lao spoke out in English and Chinese, to advocate for ESL classes facing severe cuts, saying “Not everyone has the privilege to attend 4-year University because we have to work, but City College should be for everyone!”
Journalists from TV, radio, online, and print outlets attended to report on the community’s outraged response to cuts to programs like American Sign Language, which educates students for high-demand careers as sign language interpreters, and Computer Science, which provides access to jobs in the booming tech industry.
The mission of a community college is to provide access to higher education to everyone who 
needs or wants it. Our Board and the Chancellor need to create a budget that prioritizes the classroom and students. To this end AFT 2121 is demanding that the administration institute a transparent and collaborative scheduling process, fix the college’s dysfunctional registration system, reinstate the college’s long-standing 15-student minimum class size, and facilitate concrete, targeted outreach for low-enrolled classes.
While the college has responded to this backlash by restoring classes in Asian-American Studies, LGBT Studies, and DSPS, AFT 2121 is calling for the restoration of all classes with healthy enrollments. We urge all 2121 members to stand with us as we continue to speak out at today’s Board of Trustees meeting at 4pm, Chinatown Campus Auditorium at 628 Washington St. (not room 628, and not Ocean Campus like originally posted).
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AFT 2121 is working with a broad based coalition of students and community allies including Jobs with Justice and the San Francisco Rising Alliance to gather data about how class cuts affect San Franciscans. Please complete this survey about class reductions and share it with your students!
We plan to present the results of this survey to the Board of Trustees before the end of the semester.
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