California’s community-college leaders have urged a panel to extend City College of San Francisco’s accreditation by 12 to 18 months,
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California’s community-college leaders have urged a panel to extend City College of San Francisco’s accreditation by 12 to 18 months, the Los Angeles Times reports. Thirty-five people sent a letter on Monday to the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges asking that the college be granted an extension while it works to get its fiscal house in order, among other issues.
A spokesman for the commission told the newspaper that the panel had “nothing new to report.”
Last month the commission told U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, the House of Representatives’ minority leader, that it could not extend the July 31 deadline for revoking the college’s accreditation. Instead, it suggested that the college seek “candidacy status” to maintain its access to federal resources as it enacts reforms. Ms. Pelosi, joined by two other California Democrats, called the response “outrageous.”
Withdrawal of the college’s accreditation will not be allowed until a lawsuit brought by the city of San Francisco, which goes to trial in October, is resolved. Leaders, including Brice W. Harris, chancellor of California’s community-college system, have defended the college, saying it has dealt with 95 percent of its shortcomings.
The accrediting commission, a division of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, announced last July that it would revoke the college’s accreditation in one year.
