The City College administration has created a survey about how to spend the COVID relief money allocated to CCSF from the federal government’s HEERF grants (Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund). Between HEERF I, II, and III, the school has received over $54 million since May of 2020, and they are finally requesting input from the CCSF community.*
Wide Distribution of the Survey
The Rebuild City College Campaign is distributing the survey far and wide and including recommendations on how to complete the survey, along with a document that fact checks the misleading material attached to the survey.
Go here for the survey form, and please read the information below to help inform your response. The survey, itself, will take less than a minute to complete. Read the fact checking document, here.
Rebuild’s Recommendation
Re-order the priorities (drag and drop the topics to move up/down the rank) like this:
#1: Costs for additional sections of courses to allow for social distancing (e.g., additional in-person lab sections for a lecture class delivered remotely)
#2: Safe campus operations (e.g., cleaning/disinfecting, physical distancing protocols or facility reconfigurations, personal protective equipment)
#3: Technology for students for improved distance learning (e.g., loaner laptops & WiFi hotspots, lab kits, or expanding WiFi to public spaces)
#4: Technology or training for employees for improved delivery of instruction and support services (e.g., instructional equipment, laptops, access to high-speed internet)
#5: Direct emergency financial aid to students
Suggested text for the Optional Box for comments/suggestions/priorities:
“Since the federal government already mandates a portion of the HEERF grants for direct aide to students, please prioritize helping students by offering additional, and smaller, sections of courses for social distancing AND ALSO additional, smaller sections, of online courses to ease the challenge of distance learning for students who are not adept at that mode of instruction.”
Rationale for Our Recommendation
We prioritized additional sections for the reason we gave in the Optional Box. Then we followed up with support for those classes, their students, and their teachers.
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