and i got these comments to give to accjc and they just ignored it. so, could you make copies and give it to all your compatriots? >> thank you. next speaker. (applause) >>> hi, my name is patrick [speaker not understood]. i'm a former [speaker not understood] student. i'm a pretty quiet person so i don't really speak up a lot but i feel like this is important so i wanted to make a few comments as well. i want to reiterate what some people said. it's really difficult helping [speaker not understood] inter disciplinary studies. i'm helping out with enrollment. you can check online and see how many students are enrolled. we look at it, and it's discouraging. why would anyone want to go to city college if you think you can't finish your studies there. that's one point. in any way you can assist. i'm sure you have a peer department or whatever. there is much to be done with like this kind of damage to an institution's image. also wanted to say i'm really disturbed by the appeals process and that i don't know if you're aware of this, but actually the same

on our side or accjc's. if you don't step on our side, then your recall is a conclusion. (applause) >>> thank you. >> thank you. >>> hi, my name is terrence yancy. i'm a recent graduate at sf state and i'm now at city college to complete requirements for a teaching credential. first i want to thank the trustee rizzo for correcting information from our liaison. i was [speaker not understood] liaison [speaker not understood] doesn't know basic facts that i know and i'm not paid to know that. i also want to point out it's been really tough, i felt really disrespected by the administration of ccsf and they're not open. two e-mails came out. one several months ago from interim chancellor and once recently from the super trustees pretty much discouraging the campus community from, you know, trying to organize our speak out or speak their voice about the accreditation process and for an institution of higher learning that's shameful. yes, city college always, you know, has room for improvement and we constantly need to be trying to improve but that needs to be done with the inpu

and i think it's all about money for accjc. and it's simple as that. i don't think accjc cares. >> thank you. >>> about other people. >> next speaker, please. (applause) >>> good afternoon, thank you for allowing me this opportunity to speak. getting a college education was something that was very important to me. and i had my ged and i wanted to find the best place to do that. i moved from [speaker not understood] san francisco, partially because of the reputation of city college being affordable and also a good reflection of what the city actually is, a very difficult verse population. something i really felt like i could grow well in. hearing how some people tend to talk about improving city college, you know, yeah, i want to voice my intensive -- my support that city college be preserved as it is a an institution that serves a lot of different age groups. two years ago i went to sacramento to see the -- to go be part of a hearing for the student success task force. there they talked about helping out the kids and how all city college of california,

it was very painful to -- as the accjc said, work within our means. what that means was that when we did our mission statement, we had to narrow many of the course offerings we gave. we also had to cut programs and not offer what we had been offering to students and for the community. but we did that, we did what we were supposed to do. and then one of the other areas that we had to pay attention to what the collaboration of the board of trustees. we needed to work more collectively and we needed to collaborate better. i noticed a change. people that i talked to in the public noticed the change. and even among the board members we agreed that we were working collectively, collaboratively, and effectively. and we did that. so, the third thing that we were told we needed to do was we needed to get professional development and we needed to learn more about the accreditation. and, so, a lot of workshops were offered. we were also told that we needed to do more training related to being a good trustee. we did that. and, so, it's a little disappointing to k

faculty and staff at ccsf formed 14 different work groups to address every recommendation that the accjc cited us on and we put in a lot of hours to try and meet their recommendations. so, it's been a huge slap in the face that we are at this point now. we think it's very unjust and undeserved and thank you very much for your support today. (applause) >> thank you. next speaker. >>> hi, supervisors. thank you, supervisor cohen, for holding this hearing and supervisor avalos. my name is dennis [speaker not understood]. by the way, i went to city college three years, 1957 to 1960. and then later in the middle of my printing trades career, i decided i wanted to see if i could do something else so i went back to study physiology which was available to me. but that's not what i'm here for. i think you guys know because you've heard it all, that this is a political fight not an education fight. it's a political fight to hold onto this ability to have this kind of capacity to offer. what really is the only working class institution in san francisco that serves more than 90,000 adults here, and