CCSF students, faculty protest cuts
EDUCATION Students, faculty claim diversity will be endangered by measures that officials say will increase efficiency
Nanette Asimov
Updated 10:16 p.m., Thursday, November 15, 2012
"Hundreds of chanting, singing and loudly passionate students and faculty rallied at City College of San Francisco on Thursday to protest a new austerity measure they say will threaten diversity studies at their school, which is fighting to remain accredited.
"'We need ethnic studies!' student Olewasami Brown told the crowd of about 200 gathered on the college plaza under rare sunshine in the fog belt. "How many of you have ever heard of Melanesia?' When no one recognized the Oceanic region of his birth, Brown called out, 'I thought so! Which is why we need ethnic studies here!'" ...
"City College has more than 60 academic departments, often with fewer than 10 instructors. Asian American Studies has nine instructors. Asian Studies has two. Philippine Studies has three. Each has its own chair, released from teaching at least one class to do scheduling, program reviews and other tasks that other colleges hand to deans.
"The system was called out as too expensive by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, which said in July that the college of 86,000 students must become an efficiently run institution to remain accredited and in business. ..."
Of course it is good to learn about Melanesia or any other area of the world, but this is another indication that the more extremely egalitarian a host culture tries to become, in everything from immigration to education, the angrier the beneficiaries become at its real or imagined failures, shortcomings and injustices--until the host culture is no more.
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