By Anna Challet, New America Media
Among the embattled City College of San Francisco’s most vocal supporters is the Chinese community, which recently celebrated the opening of a Chinatown-North Beach campus. But with a looming budget crisis and warnings of a loss of accreditation, the $138 million campus’s salability is frequently mentioned as one way the college could save itself.
The Chinese community’s stake in the survival of City College has steadily increased in recent years, with the most recent available statistics showing overall Asian-Pacific Islander enrollment at 42 percent of the college’s student population. But necessary reforms to address financial concerns could include closing some of the college’s 11 campuses throughout the city, and the new Chinatown campus – the result of a near four-decade-long effort – could be a target.
“We’re all going to hurt,” says community leader Henry Der. “The cuts, if they need to be made, should be equitable. No one community should bear a disproportionate share of the pain.”
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