City College's
History of
Dysfunction

State accreditors announce compliance problems at City College and give 8 months to fix them or be closed down.

California's Fiscal Crisis Team says City College is close to defaulting on its payments and other obligations.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera sues to overturn commission decision and keep City College open.

Courts rule that accreditation cannot be revoked pending an outcome of no-jury trial.

City College of San Francisco, struggling for every dollar it can muster, must repay the state nearly $39 million because it can’t prove that instructors taught thousands of students in hundreds of online classes from 2011 to 2014, an audit revealed.

City College receives news that it will be allowed to stay open for a full 7-year term.

Auditor reveals that City College cannot sustain its current spending levels and has a severe budget crisis.

It's been six years since SF City College nearly lost its accreditation over a variety of financial and mismanagement issues, and now the California accreditation board has once again put the school on its "enhanced monitoring" list due to its ongoing financial woes.

City College cannot afford its payroll after dropping from 90,000 to 55,000 students over 10 years.

Ahead of a final vote to approve layoffs, City College of San Francisco faculty pitched tents in front of a campus building entrance on Tuesday and prepared to hunker down for the night.

City College of San Francisco officials approved layoffs equating to 38 full-time staff on Friday evening, in a move faculty warned would be catastrophic. The virtual meeting drew close to 400 attendees and over 100 public comments—all of them decrying the decision.

City College of San Francisco issued a public apology this month for the harm, frustration and confusion its failure to offer a 16-unit Cantonese Certificate of Achievement program for the upcoming academic year may have caused the CCSF community.

San Francisco City College is losing students, government funding, teaching staff and axing classes—all while being completely free for San Franciscans to attend.

San Francisco City College is asking taxpayers to bet on them once again, but not everyone is convinced.

The new certificate courses will be the first of their kind for Cantonese education in the nation, according to Julia Quon, the founder of the Save Cantonese campaign at City College.

Plans to relocate some English classes for immigrants in San Francisco have sparked protests by students who say the longer commute would make class harder to attend—and that could hurt enrollment.

Teachers and staff at various City College campuses have bemoaned chilly classrooms. In November, photos surfaced of classroom thermostats reading as low as 53 degrees.

Teachers at City College of San Francisco are concerned that waitlists for the fall semester could climb as high as 6,000 students if the school does not hire back faculty it laid off last spring.

Over 13,000 students at City College of San Francisco are set to be relieved of their outstanding student fees thanks to $2.1 million from the city, Mayor London Breed announced this week.

The head of City College of San Francisco announced plans to resign, saying in an email to colleagues that he decided against renewing his contract past this school year.

Frustrated with stalled contract negotiations, 94 percent of the custodians, public safety officers and dispatchers at City College of San Francisco voted to authorize a strike on Thursday, according to SEIU Local 1021, which represents the school’s 400 or so staff members.

The union representing City College of San Francisco’s faculty is accusing the school’s top official of falsifying financial information during ongoing labor talks.

City College of San Francisco was placed on warning status this week by its accreditor, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.

In a blow to City College of San Francisco, a state commission refused to immediately renew the school’s all-important accreditation this week and gave it until 2027 to come into compliance or suffer “adverse action.”

City College receives March 2025 deadline to show how it will fix fiscal and leadership problems caused by Board of Trustees.