Citing a list of financial concerns, the City College of San Francisco's Board of Trustees finalized 38 faculty layoffs during a virtual meeting this past Friday. Additionally, a dozen full-time faculty members that were expected to retire this school year will now not be replaced.

The announcement of this massive wave of layoffs comes after years of financial turmoil and a string of budget crises at CCSF — including nearly losing its accreditation“ in 2015 over financial mismanagement. The school was  back on the state’s list for “enhanced monitoring” as of a year and a half ago, and a report released in April  confirmed the college still faces a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming academic year. As a result, CCSF's board announced that it would cut 163 full-time faculty and at least 34 administrative positions this year.

During a Friday afternoon board meeting, school employees learned that 38 faculty positions would be immediately cut — with some of those employees having worked for the City College for years, if not decades. Also, at least 150 part-time staff are expected not to be hired back to the college because of a California higher-education rule that requires part-timers not to take the place of laid-off full-time faculty.

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