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State wide action against Student Success Task Force

The San Francisco City College newspaper, The

Guardsman, and their Editor in Chief Joe Fitzgerald are planning  a state

wide action against the Student Success Task Force and their recommendations.

 

The SSTF was created by the California Community

Colleges Board of Governors in January of this year with the goal to improve

student success in all the community colleges in California. According to the

SSTF website the group is composed of community college leaders, faculty, students,

researchers, staff, and external stakeholders.

 

The proposed state wide action by Fitzgerald and the

Guardsman are the direct results from some recommendations the SSTF believes

will help students and the community colleges.

 

The SSTF recommendations include removing class that

do not add credit to the students transfer application, charge students with

out of state tuition fees for taking class outside of the SSTF new transfer

plan.

 

“Their plan would affect students who are in ESL

class,” said Fitzgerald “it would also digital learning for the elderly.”

 

The SFCC newspaper is not the only one against these

recommendations their Academic Senate is also against the proposed

recommendations.

 

Fitzgerald has taken the first step in a planned

state wide action against the SSTF. He sent out an open letter to all the EIC’s

and advisors of community colleges in California.

 

According to Fitzgerald, Community College

Chancellor Jack Scott selected 14 of the 20 members in the SSTF and has his own

agenda.

 

“For years California has been chopping community

colleges at the knees” stated Fitzgerald

 

The open letter to the EIC’s and advisors encourages

all community college newspapers to join together against the SSTF’s

recommendations. The letter outlines Fitzgerald’s plan beginning with a front

page editorial against the recommendations. The second step would be to have

all the community colleges upload the same editorial to their respective

websites on Dec. 7th.

 

The final two steps to Fitzgerald’s plan include having

all the newspapers print a “call to action” by the editorial against the

recommendations. The call to action would include a list of phone numbers and

emails for the California Board of Governors, Gov. Jerry Brown and California’s

Community College Chancellor Jack Scott and would encourage the readers to call

and email all of the listed names and state their dislike with the

recommendations. The final step would have all the CC’s send out a press

release to all the local and weekly newspapers informing them of the editorial.

 

According to Fitzgerald’s open letter the solutions

offered by the SSTF have “gone too far”.

 

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