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San Francisco police arrested protesters Thursday camping outside an administration building at City College of San Francisco.
JasonDoiy/Getty Images/iStockphotoOne day before the City College of San Francisco Board of Trustees is scheduled to vote on faculty layoffs, San Francisco police began arresting protesters who have been camping outside of Conlan Hall on Thursday.
In one video posted on Twitter, a woman identified as CCSF dance professor Kathe Burick is seen being arrested and taken away by San Francisco police.
Teachers and faculty began camping out near an administration building on Tuesday to protest a proposal to lay off 218 full- and part-time employees. The final vote is scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m. (The meeting will be on Zoom here.)
CCSF has said that the layoffs are necessary due to a steady decline in enrollment, but faculty and staff contend that layoffs will just accelerate the drop in attendance.
“We’ve already seen cuts to 30% of our classes in the last three years here at city college,” Adele Failes-Carpenter, Women and Gender Studies instructor at CCSD, told NBC Bay Area. “And we know a lot of students have been pushed out of the classes they need, have been waitlisted, have had to go to mother institutions and we don’t want to see more of that.”
In 2012, CCSF served 73,000 student. City College enrolled fewer than 25,000 students last fall.
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