HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mammoth 2-Year College to Lose Accreditation. “City College of San Francisco will lose its accreditation in one year and be shut down, its regional accreditor announced on Wednesday, unless the college can prevail in a review or appeal process with the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. The two-year college, which enrolls 85,000 students, would be the largest institution ever to lose its accreditation. Without regional accreditation it would no longer receive state funding and would certainly close its doors. One year ago the commission, part of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, slapped a ‘show cause’ sanction on City College for a wide range of identified problems, including dangerous budget deficits, a balky governance system and a failure to track student outcomes. A subsequent report from a state agency reinforced concerns about the two-year college’s fiscal health, including that it only had enough cash reserves on hand to cover three days of operation.”

UPDATE: Interim Chancellor Gets Big Bucks: ” Scott-Skillman will earn the same annual salary as Fisher, $276,000. Her annual pension from four decades of jobs in public colleges is $95,041 from the Public Employees Retirement System and $74,076 from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System, for a total annual compensation of $445,117. As it did for Fisher, City College will give Scott-Skillman housing and car allowances.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: A reader who requests anonymity emails: “My grandson just finished high school and lives within walking distance of City College of San Francisco. He intends to do his first two years at a community college but refuses to attend City College, preferring a school in the next county. His reasons? Excessive political correctness, idiotic curriculum, and, frankly, anti-white animus. Why does the do those characteristics seem to be regularly associated with corruption and incompetency?” Racists are usually not very bright.