Escape From City College: Textbooks drive up cost of college
By Becca Hoekstra. Escape From City College continues with the quintessential moan of our generation: textbooks.
Opinions & Editorials
Letter from the editor: I'm tired
By Sara BloombergThe GuardsmanI’m tired. I bet you’re tired, too, and midterms haven’t even hit yet.
It’s not just school, though.
I’m tired of two party politics and the Republican National Convention—the Democrats are preparing to hold their own flag waving party this week.
OPINION: Accreditation's shady past
By Alex Schmaus
The Guardsman
The private organization threatening to close City College is itself a threat to equity, democracy and justice.
Sherrill Amador, the chair of the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, has a controversial past herself.
Amador resigned from her post as president of Palomar College
Opinion: blame the budget cuts, not City College
By Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
This summer I learned it sucks to have your school in the headlines.
By now, I’m assuming everyone knows that City College is facing a loss of accreditation. Losing accreditation would make our credits illegitimate and prevent the school from receiving federal funds.
The
Letter to the editor: Who's running the show?
Why is it that a private company has so much power over a public institution?
That private company being the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges.
Because in that question lies answers that resound throughout our
economy as the 1% seeks to extort the Commons for their own selfish
OP-ED: Socialism, Perhaps A Better Choice?
A ghost is haunting global capitalism - the ghost of socialism.
Two Years at City College
City College was an extremely rewarding, albeit challenging experience. I made it in two years, earning my associates degree and transferring to San Francisco State.