City College of San Francisco Accreditation Crisis - Part One of Four Parts

This is part one of a four-part series focused on the accreditation crisis of City College of San Francisco. City College of San Francisco’s accreditation crisis began in 2012. Over the past four years’ multiple issues and stories have been covered by the media. This four-part series attempts to provide listeners Twelve different interviews and points of view from the various Voices of City College of San Francisco and the community.

In this episode, we feature the voices of:

• Kristin Charles, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Development Accreditation & Liaison Officer at City College of San Francisco


• Special Trustee Guy Lease for City College of San Francisco


• Karen Saginor Department Chair of Library and Learning Resources at City College of San Francisco

I want to thank City College staff Karen Saginor Department Chair of Library and Learning Resources, Kristin Charles the Interim Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Development Accreditation and Liaison Officer and Special Trustee Guy Lease for sharing their insights and how they’re each working to find and execute solutions to address the Accreditation crisis that is facing one of the community’s economic ladders out of poverty for our fellow citizens.

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