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Posted on March 1, 2021 by AFT 2121

Tuesday is Flex Day!

Please drop by our virtual AFT 2121 Flex Events:

8-9am– “Telling your story” speakers workshop” from CFT Communications Director Matthew Hardy. Zoom meeting, Meeting ID: 875 2267 2298, Passcode: 612925
12:15-1:15pm – Drop by to let us know how you’re doing and share strategies for fighting back against the cuts. Zoom meeting, Meeting ID: 875 2267 2298, Passcode: 612925
12:15-1:15pm – AFT 2121 Affirmative Action Task Force (AATF) is holding an Affinity Space for Black & Brown Faculty. Zoom meeting, Meeting ID: 314 502 7798
5-6pm – “Telling your story” speakers workshop” from CFT Communications Director Matthew Hardy. Zoom meeting, Meeting ID: 875 2267 2298, Passcode: 612925

Tuesday’s workshop schedule also includes the following equity-focused workshops: Keynote address: Eliminating Anti-Black Racism in Higher Education, with Mary Wardell Ghirarduzzi
Transformational Allyship for the BIPOC Community, with Mary Wardell Ghirarduzzi
Songs of the Civil Rights Movement, with Lenny Carlson and Ramona Coates
Advancing Cultural / Linguistic Practices for College Students with Disabilities, with Peggy Monroe Panel Discussion of an Equity-minded Tenure-Track Processes and Lived Experiences, with Ramona Coates and Wynd Kaufmyn
Putting Policy into Practice: Transgender & Non-Binary Inclusion at CCSF, with Pau Crego and Jesse Kolber

Check out the full schedule of workshops.

Report back and next steps: Forum on Saving the CCSF Airport Campus

On Friday, SF Board of Supervisors President Shamann Walton, SF Labor Council, and CCSF Associated Students held a press conference and forum on the future of the CCSF Aircraft Maintenance Technology (AMT) Program.

Attendees included Supervisor Gordon Mar, SFO Director Ivar Satero, members of the SF and San Mateo Labor Councils, CCSF Trustee John Rizzo, as well as CCSF faculty, staff, and students, and concerned community members. We’d like to thank everyone who attended and spoke, and especially recognize CCSF Student Trustee Vick Van Chung, who helped facilitate.

There was a glaring absence however: CCSF administration. President Walton, the San Francisco Labor Council, and the CCSF Associated Students organized this event as a serious fact-finding forum that sought to provide answers to the fate of the program and the students whose futures are hanging in the balance. In spite of their direct call to Chancellor Vurdien and other top administrators to attend the forum and bring answers to critical questions furnished to the college in advance, not a single CCSF administrator attended who has decision-making power regarding the AMT program. Rather than take this inquiry seriously, CCSF administration sent Rosie Zepeda, Director of Media, Governmental Relations, and Marketing to simply read a prepared statement. Zepeda could not answer questions or stay for the entire forum.

Just a few of the most pressing questions that remain unanswered:

What will CCSF do for current AMT students who are waiting to graduate from the program? What plan does CCSF have to support current AMT students towards completion of their academic & professional goals?
Will CCSF offer the lecture portion of courses in remote format?
What are the contingency plans for the AMT program if no space is secured in the short run?

CCSF administration has initiated an Academic Senate process called “Program Revitalization, Suspension, and Discontinuance”. The AMT program is a vital job-training engine of the City. AFT remains committed to the revitalization part of that process, even if administration is not. We plan to continue working to find a suitable space for the AMT program.

Find out more:

How you can help:

Attend our AFT 2121 facilitated Evans/Airport Campus organizing strategy meetings on Mondays at 5pm. Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81532583392pwd=WHh5N3ovTWpqOG5Gclc1d1MrZ3I1Zz09
Invite your students to share their concerns about the potential loss of AMT and Evans programs at the Associated Student Executive Council meetings Fridays between 1-3pm. https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/99773871426#success
If you have not done so, please sign the petition urging the CCSF administration to work with officials at SFO to find a location for the program at the airport.
Attend one of the next weekly community forums to give input directly to the Chancellor, VC Boegel, and Dean Bynum. Meetings are posted on the Evans Campus page.

CCCSF.edu email accounts

Once again, CCSF IT has threatened to cancel “unused” ccsf.edu email accounts. As you might expect, they sent notice about this to our ccsf.edu email addresses.

We’ve seen this before. Every few years, IT decides to clean up their system. They decide to cancel some accounts. We point out that it would be a contract violation to cancel accounts for retirees. Then we point out that it would also be a really bad idea to cancel accounts for current and recent employees. They scratch their heads, say okay, and don’t cancel the accounts.

That might happen again. Our union grievance team is talking to the District, and it is not yet resolved. But this time there are different people in charge of IT, and they are so far insisting they will go ahead and cancel “inactive” accounts on March 31. They have not yet clarified how exactly they define inactive. They say that “current faculty, staff, or emeritus” accounts will be continued, but they have not clarified how they define “current”. And this being CCSF, we cannot expect whatever process they follow to be error-free. We recommend that if you have not used your ccsf.edu account recently, and you want to keep it, log in to it now. Send an email message to yourself. Do something to make sure the account remains “active.”