i did actually meet a faculty member very elderly faculty member who said the day after pearl harborlosophy class didn't talk about pearl harbor. i said that's academic freedom. you choose not to mention pearl harbor. i suspect that there are a lot of classes the day -- it was before my time. i suspect there were a lot of classes that set aside their subject and talked about an event that was overwhelming. so i think those are the two things. bankruptcies by historical events that are just -- that basically that force all of us to confront them and classroom thinking that makes connections and comparisons sometimes with very different subjects. sometimes with very different periods. >> naomi -- i asked her about the business of academic and publishing. let's watch a short clip and get your reaction to this. >>, i mean, i don't know, you know, when the last time, you know, you picked up a kind of an academic publicly indication was. even harvard university press, i think recently said that, you know, the average circulation of one of their, you know, one of their academic publications

i think that the california faculties who are engaged in what appears to be a real and painful struggle with the accjc would question whether in fact this is an organization of peers. and their statements that the standards are clear is not my experience. my experience -- the standards may be clear, but their interpretation leaves abundant room for -- for interpretation and for subjective analysis. and i think that the treatment accjc has given san francisco city college has been extremely biased and extremely subjective. so, i don't think accreditation, whatever we're hearing about it from the accjc and even from folks at city college now, it's not working for san francisco. this is an 58,000 person institution that serves our community. you know that you're hearing this. ~ 85,000 and the notion that we're being told this is going to shut down in one year or could shut down in one year is absolutely outrageous and everyone should be outraged. president rizzo talked about the real harm that has come from the fact that accjc's approach to this whole process of reform at city college was

there is anecdotally a type of job market for faculty. we didn't find data so we look at the highering. they only hired 65 percent of applicants which there is not a job market for qualified faculty. for classified staff, it's a little bit different. under the education code, they are considered to be part of the city civil service system and they are treated like a city employee. we couldn't get a number of employees from the college district. but there are 24 i don't believe classes that have rights to city jobs. these employees in these jobs could transfer to the city to a vacant position or if they have seniority they can bump into a position as an existing city worker. that is our impact evaluation on impact on staff. we are available for any questions you may have. >> thank you, i do know that i got a couple of text that asked about the most recent data and whether their actual or estimated numbers, but you are use of the fiscal year 2012-2013 are from the numbers from the city college? >> that is based on the final approved budget

the faculty often had slaves.particularly in the chapter that incite people on campus, and save people were inseparable of the college experience in the colonial world. they were exposed to higher education. >> guest: at their expense of this. taxi stopped in actually studies in the library and becomes the next jordan air of the gifted biblical scholar to where she's actually been consulted by biblical scholars in other parts of the united states. and she's largely self-taught. the president throughout her actually gave her instruction. he instruct vader and the presidents house and she continued to study on her own as she got older. housecoat let me share something i highlighted that comes in the chapter cotton comes to harvard. it was first of all, who was the? the reason i bring this up is you raise here this feature cotton planter and they were talking about henry watson junior also wrote that the ancient egyptians had the curly hair and other features of the african race in the contemporary egyptians from the

the faculty often had slave. one of the thing that i want to get across in the book. the chapter with enslaved people on campus. enslaved people were inseparateble part of the college experience in the colonial world. >> host: which meant that -- exposed to higher education, or -- >> guest: yeah. they were. and in fact, actually, there are examples of this. betsy stock don who was enslaved to one of the president of princeton studies. she becomes a gifted scholar. she's being consulted by biblical. >> host: she's self-taught. >> guest: largely self-taught. the president who owned her actually gave her instructions. he instructed her in the -- >> host: first of all, who was he? and the reason i bring this up, you write here that this future cotton planter, and they were talking about, i believe, henry watson, jr., also wrote that the ancient egyptian had the curly hair and other features of the african race, and that contemporary egyptians were only lighter in complexion because of centuries of mixing with europeans and professor did not leave it to his students to inf

so yes students arrive with slaves to campus and the faculty often had slaves.one of the things i wanted to get across in the book is that enslaved people were inseparable part of the college experience in the colonial world. >> host: which meant that they were exposed to higher education. >> guest: to some extent they were and in fact there are examples of this. that's a soft and who is enslaved by one of the presidents of princeton studies in the library at the presidents house and becomes an extraordinarily gifted biblical scholar to where she is being consulted by biblical scholars in parts of the united states. >> host: and she is self-taught? >> guest: she is largely self-taught. the president gave her instruction. he instructed her in the presidents house and she continued to study on her honor she got older. >> host: let me share something i highlighted and had to expound on this and this comes from the chapter cotton comes to harvard. charles fallen -- first off who was he? the reason i bring this up is you right here that this future cotton plant and t

the commissioners of the accrediting commission are faculty members from other institutions. there are 19 commissioners. there are some that represents -- there are three members that represent public interests. there are administrators, some other member institutions, and then people representing other educational entities. they go through a nomination process and it's the chief executive officer, the chancellors and presidents who elect the commissioners. and, again, it's a peer review process. the commission is basically servicing all of its member institutions in this peer review process. evaluation teams are also composed of faculty members, administrators, even trustees of other institutions when they come to evaluate an institution. i need to make clear also the accreditation standards need to be met at all times. so, it's not like you go through a review process, check mark, great job, and then you stop what you're doing and you get ready for the next evaluation. you need to be in compliance at all times. those are the basics of the commission. and again, i'll give yo

i also just want to make the point that over the last year the 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 s

a suggestion came up with the working administration and faculty and staff and i'm still interested in completing that work group. i took part in the coalition crisis and there's a clear consensus we work together as one in san francisco with the trustees to keep our schools open. we have to keep the energy going and show how or replaceable our colleges are. i'm going to introduce this it's a study of the negative consequences of putting 5 hundred faculty out of work to the general education provided for by the cluj. the last point is important because immigrant seeking workforce training and those are people that are out of work and that also those kinds of number one credit courses are targeted at non-risk population but their among the highest in the city that a that are unemployed. and those

i'm vanet cook, esl faculty at city college. one of the standards surround the area of governance so i'd like to speak a little about that. governance, as you know, people have said democracy is difficult and [speaker not understood] we face many challenges. and one of the areas that acc fought with last year and this year was governance which is standard 4. and last year i was in charge of some of that work as my work in the academic senate and i just want to explain to you that very much so, we worked very seriously on this area of reorganizing committees and trying to explain how committee work was very related to the standards, the accreditation standards. it was not just something that we do because we don't have other thing to do. we reached out to our different constituent groups to try to include -- be inclusive. it's very hard [speaker not understood]. faculty are very busy, but still it's reasonable that the committee work meetings like this need to be open, need to be transparent. we worked really hard to do that. so,

academic stage a mass rally angry over the appointment of former cia chief david petraeus for the faculty has said more after a short break. this is the media leave us so we need to be. hard to see who she is she to. play your part of the musical. shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics only of our. critique three. three. three. three. three. three. video for your media project media r t v dot com. thirteen minutes past the hour now the u.s. willing to revive its diplomatic relations with iran but only if the islamic republic proves that its nuclear program is strictly civilian and a statement from the white house washington didn't rule out the possibility that both countries leaders could meet on the sidelines of the u.n. general assembly next week historian and investigative journalist gareth porter though says it's yet to be seen if the u.s. is ready to move toward diplomacy. when president obama was first elected he was committed to a very far reaching diplomatic engagement with iran but we know now that in fact his policy was much different fro

york backing protests against the appointment of former cia chief david petraeus to the school's faculty sign a petition for charges to be dropped against six students arrested during an earlier street protest video emerged showing police roughing up activists while detaining them are. more four star general and former cia director david petraeus recently began his new career here in the big apple as an adjunct professor for the new york city public university known as but his attendance has been met with broad criticism from students faculty and staff members who say they don't want their college to host the man who oversaw the wars drone strikes and alleged torture tactics in the middle east now for the past few weeks this anti professor could try his movement has been gaining traction recently activists held me that they're on their campaign has been met with heavy handed tactics from the new york city police department no wonder this week about seventy five people were marching right around here across the street from not building where professor petraeus was allegedly attending a fu

city public university known as but his attendance has been met with rock criticism from students faculty and staff members who say they don't want their colleagues to the man only so morris drone strikes and allegedly torture tactics in the middle east now for the past few weeks this anti professor pre-training movement has been beaming traction recently to this tell me that they are their campaign has been met with heavy handed tactics from the new york city police department you know earlier this week about seventy five people were marching right around here across the street from not building where professor petraeus was allegedly attending a fundraiser and that's when a fight broke out between new york city police officers and protesters cops who videotaped trying to barricade the activists who then spilled out onto the streets witnesses say students were slammed against the vehicles and onto the pavement by the cops eventually six people were arrested and have been charged with obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct twenty four year o

and all of our faculty has been over there. as i said, multiple times to really walk through that and understand what those expectations are and can at any time request additional support and parent volunteers should they feel the activity requires that. >> okay, great, thank you very much. >> if i may add, just clarify one point with park and rec. why we don't need to do more activation of open space immediately at the building. a question came up, why we use inside the building and little marina green. and it's that the open space around the palace of fine arts is a designated -- it's a nonstructured recreation area. since we are a group use, we do not interfere with public access. we actually go across. so, that's why we have a protocol, but that's why we choose -- that's r why we're going to those recreation areas. >> got it. commissioner moore. >> i just wanted to express my full support for the project. i think it is a very wonderful continuation of the application for the expansion of the school on jackson street. i thin

someone actually concerning me over the past years, how come there's students and faculty that don't seem to be on the same page on a lot of things. the students who came and spoke really spoke with a lot of emotion about how they feel their voice hasn't been heard. that's something i think cannot be denied. and one of the things i hope to come out of this hearing would be how there could be some way to get people to the other end of work so their voices can be heard from the other side. i think the students need to have sense that the school is making headway and not just hearing their voices, but implementing their ideas into action that come from them. it is something that -- the only way they're going to actually feel there is actual meaningful change that is happening. this process doesn't lead to some changes being made, there is the opportunity to have their voices implemented. i'd like to see that happen. my office is -- works on a myriad of issues here at city hall, but i am willing to devote some of my staff and interns' time to be able to, you know, hear from community gro

affairs for the san francisco labor college, at city college of san francisco, we have about 1600 faculty these days and about half of those are part time, half of those have access through city college of san francisco to benefit, others access healthy san francisco now because they don't make enough and there are some of those who would fall through the cracks if we didn't have healthy san francisco. one of the unintended consequences of the aca is the fact that employers are going to appear to be driving down hours for many workers so that they don't need to provide insurance and that's something that is happening all over the country to part time adjunct contingent faculty members all over the country. there are teachers, professors who are not getting the same number of classes or the same number of hours. we're already seeing health care access diminished as city college of san francisco for our part time faculty and we ask that you defend healthy san francisco so that there will be some place for them to go and so that there will be some place for the thousands of others who need t

while the community college faculty staff and administrators are being forced to ban their normal student and campus responsibilities in order to comply with unsubstantiated accjc mandates. when did a community college become based more on the institution's governance process, which is -- thank you -- dedicated by california state laws and less on the quality of education being provided? these are important questions that we believe the state audit will answer and i'm honored to be joined by [speaker not understood] in this effort to examine whether our community colleges and students are being treated fairly, consistently and without bias. we ask for your support to ensure our safe public community colleges are not being forced to waste [speaker not understood] through the fees and taxpayer dollars. [inaudible]. >> thank you. >> thank you. (applause) >>> hello, my name is marco low be and i'm a current ccsf student and i'm going to be a future college student there. ~ lopez if the community did not have the opportunity to attend city college and all of its programs, we would not have the

that also includes the faculty, think of the devastation that occurs to the faculty and the parents that's all provided to this change of culture. >> can we find this online? >> absolutely. cassiebear area.org. jill's ride for hope we just finished, we had a great ride the end of august, the beginning of school, as you might imagine it's a brutal event. for us it's a great cause but a crappy --. >> you are right. thank you so much. assembly man tom ammiano has his own story about bullying but you are the author of what we've been talking about today. >> it sounds trite, but all politics being personal, you've probably heard that before many times. in the case of this bill, that does ring true. i was on the bridge board for many years and meeting after meeting parents would come, particularly of teenagers who had jumped, and it was heart breaking and poignant and that feeling of helplessness that we all have, very reminiscent of this story and of your story in terms of what the parents go through and the inaction. and we finally were able to get a suicide deterrent plan and we're looking fo

first they looked at their faculty to fire. then they looked at their staff to fire. then they looked at classes to cut. we said we don't want to balance the budget on the backs of students and our workers if we don't have to. and that's the drastically different approach to looking at it. once again, that reflects our values as leaders and elected leaders here in san francisco. i know trustee -- i know supervisor avalos, you mentioned student equity. well, some of the things that we did look at, and i was happy to co-sponsor, was we actually had a resolution to first collect the data for student equity because we do know that our black and brown students are not succeeding even in community college at the levels of others. we also looked at accelerated basic skills courses and even though there is a lot of -- a lot of conversation, a lot of debate in disagreement. that's what a democracy should be. i think we get deemed in terms of the accjc because we're not smooth, democracy is not smooth. you have arguments, you have debates, but at the end of the day you come out

and faculty at the san francisco state university. in the college of ethic studies where among other things i teach japanese-american history. so through this i feel i've felt i'm a stakeholder that was the reason i became a participant in the japan town organizing committee in addition to my own personal connections to the committee through the board of supervisors for the japanese-american national library. i'd like to affirm the japan plan but i'd like to speak from the angel of academic he teaching in the university and would like to stress the importance of doing what can be done to preserve such a rich and a culturally diverse community especially in connection with the social and cultural heritage. it's a long-standing mission even if ethic studies even if being a upper place in the country that links the you thought to bay community and through this mission we as faculty encourage and seek to create opportunity for our students to experience things in their own community whereby i hope in their later crazy they'll give back to

. >> faculty at san francisco city college say they'll file a lawsuit in an effort to keep the schoolpen. two teachers unions are expected to make an official announcement tomorrow about filing a suit in san francisco superior court. the unions say they want to protect the rights of the faculty and students already adversely affected by the impending closure. earlier this year the accrediting commission announced their accreditation will be terminated next july. >> contract talks to avert a possible b.a.r.t. strike are sit to begin tomorrow. b.a.r.t. management and labor leaders resumed negotiation last week but little progress has been made. if no deal is reached, employees could strike as early as october 11th when a cooling-off period ordered by the governor expires. >> gas prices have risen this summer, but the fall they'll fall. >>> taking a live peek outside, sunny day after the stormy saturday we had. so what can we expect for t please. regn what's this? uhh, it's my geico insurance id card, sir. it's digital, uh, pretty cool right? maybe. you know why i pulled you over today?

harvard did not have a tenured woman on its faculty. there were few from the south or the southwest. that could have been the reason they admitted me to harvard. i ran into classmates who thought because i went to panam that i was a pilot. i wore navy blue and told everyone i was a pilot. [laughter] it could be that i was a first- time college goer. my mom and i were in college at the same time. it could be that i was attending college with my mother. there were so many reasons that i stood out. i was an amazing speller. i was a regional speller four times. maybe it was my spelling. it was my spelling that took me to visit back in 1978. any of those differences could have been what made my application "sparkle.? that is what admissions officers said they were looking for. they were looking for sparkle. on hearing these three brilliant law professionals, these experts say it is a challenge to make the right admissions decision, i agree with them 100%. it is difficult when you are talking about tier 1 universities that our research univer

town school committee comprise of students, board members, faculty and administrators is a vehicle which we actively seek to set goals and continue commitment to diversify our student body. we do this in a number of ways, including having planned volunteers, outreach, admissions committee, to reach the board of supervisors preschool community. as a school community we host [speaker not understood] for lgbt, asian american, latin american, and african-american families. we also have opportunities for families to join and participate in school cultural celebration events. our commitment to socioeconomic diversity is equally vital. to that end, town school has board approved $1.2 million for tuition assistance, 20% of our families are on tuition assistance. and finally, town school is a school where learning is prized, school is essential, and where boyhood is indeed celebrated. thank you for your time and consideration. >>> good afternoon, my name is jennifer warren and i am the lower school head at town school for boys. and it is my distinct pleasure to work with our approximately 200 stu