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CCSF wins reprieve: Shutdown averted with 2-year extension
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-City-College-shutdown-averted-with-two-year-6015600.phpThe commission threatening to revoke City College of San Francisco’s accreditation has granted the school two additional years to bring its finances and governing structure into compliance with the group’s standards, its chairman said Wednesday.
The extension lifts the immediate prospect that the community college, the largest public school in the state, will be forced to shut down. But if City College fails to satisfy all standards by January 2017, the commission could still revoke its accreditation without the possibility of an appeal.
On Wednesday, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges said City College remains out of compliance with standards in 32 areas, based on an evaluation it conducted in November. The commission has never found wrongdoing or substandard instruction, but has said the college should lose accreditation because of tangled governance structures, poor fiscal controls and insufficient self-evaluation and reporting.
The commission did its November evaluation to determine whether City College could be expected to come into full compliance if given a two-year extension. Its original decision in July 2013 to revoke accreditation a year later was on hold pending a legal challenge.
The extension lifts the immediate prospect that the community college, the largest public school in the state, will be forced to shut down. But if City College fails to satisfy all standards by January 2017, the commission could still revoke its accreditation without the possibility of an appeal.
On Wednesday, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges said City College remains out of compliance with standards in 32 areas, based on an evaluation it conducted in November. The commission has never found wrongdoing or substandard instruction, but has said the college should lose accreditation because of tangled governance structures, poor fiscal controls and insufficient self-evaluation and reporting.
The commission did its November evaluation to determine whether City College could be expected to come into full compliance if given a two-year extension. Its original decision in July 2013 to revoke accreditation a year later was on hold pending a legal challenge.
Clearly the commission knows it's about to lose the case.
