Save the CCSF French program
The Issue
Our French program is in danger of being eliminated!
Last year in March 2021, 163 full-time faculty were handed pink slips. One hundred and sixty-three people were expected to accept a part-time position instead or leave. At CCSF, everyone fought very hard to keep our colleagues. In May 2021, we all voted to agree to a drastic close to 10% salary cut in exchange for the promise to keep our colleagues.
A year has not even passed and Chancellor David Martin along with the Board of Trustees of CCSF are already planning to hand out another 50 pink slips. Fifty of our tenured colleagues will be once again asked to choose to take a part-time position or leave!!
Among them is our dear colleague and popular French-instructor Professor Jacques Arceneaux. As Prof. Arceneaux will lose his full-time tenured position (which he has had for the past 10 years), our program will no longer be sustainable. We will no longer be able to offer a certificate of achievement if we cannot offer a healthy complement of beginners’ classes, an intermediate class, and electives for our students.
Just 10 years ago, we had a beautiful and thriving department of World Languages and Cultures, a department that promoted diversity in the Bay Area. We used to offer Italian, German, Russian, Filippino, ASL, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, and French. Today, many of these languages are gone and some are on their way out. Now French is on the path of being eliminated.
Which language will be next on the chopping block? What kind of department of “World LanguageS and CultureS” will we be reduced to?
Please sign below to show your support, save our department of World Languages and Cultures and keep FRENCH ALIVE in the Bay Area!
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The Issue
Our French program is in danger of being eliminated!
Last year in March 2021, 163 full-time faculty were handed pink slips. One hundred and sixty-three people were expected to accept a part-time position instead or leave. At CCSF, everyone fought very hard to keep our colleagues. In May 2021, we all voted to agree to a drastic close to 10% salary cut in exchange for the promise to keep our colleagues.
A year has not even passed and Chancellor David Martin along with the Board of Trustees of CCSF are already planning to hand out another 50 pink slips. Fifty of our tenured colleagues will be once again asked to choose to take a part-time position or leave!!
Among them is our dear colleague and popular French-instructor Professor Jacques Arceneaux. As Prof. Arceneaux will lose his full-time tenured position (which he has had for the past 10 years), our program will no longer be sustainable. We will no longer be able to offer a certificate of achievement if we cannot offer a healthy complement of beginners’ classes, an intermediate class, and electives for our students.
Just 10 years ago, we had a beautiful and thriving department of World Languages and Cultures, a department that promoted diversity in the Bay Area. We used to offer Italian, German, Russian, Filippino, ASL, Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Cantonese, and French. Today, many of these languages are gone and some are on their way out. Now French is on the path of being eliminated.
Which language will be next on the chopping block? What kind of department of “World LanguageS and CultureS” will we be reduced to?
Please sign below to show your support, save our department of World Languages and Cultures and keep FRENCH ALIVE in the Bay Area!
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Petition created on February 11, 2022