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National Pacemaker winner | Volume 71, Number 7| February 21, 2017
President Whisenhunt and a college in transition By THOMASCHESY City Times
InterimSanDiegoCity CollegePresident DeniseWhisenhunt, Feb. 15, 2017. GRIFFINDEHNE City Times
I nter im San Diego City College Pr esident Denise Whisenhunt sat with City Times for an inter view last Wednesday on the futur e of City College, the San Diego Community College Distr ict, and the city of San Diego as a whole. H ow will funds fr om t he passage of Pr oposit ion 51 be appr opr iat ed, and what changes can Cit y st udent s expect t o see as a r esult ? "My under standing is that Pr oposition 51 is designed pr incipally for colleges that have limited bond r esour ces. Ther e ar e limited dollar s attached to (the bond), so we'r e not r eally engaged in the allocation of those pr oposition 51 r esour ces. ... We feel for tunate that the city of San Diego gave us r esour ces to invest in the community colleges, and the exper iences that you have now going to our colleges." What is Cit y College doing about t he r ising homeless populat ion ar ound campus, and has t he college been in cont act wit h t he cit y about t his issue? "The homeless concer ns extend beyond our campus and it?s going to take the city to addr ess the pr oblems of our community. I t?s r eally a city solution; we need city gover nment involved. We'r e ver y excited that our mayor in Januar y talked about r eally opening and incr easing those r esour ces, so fr om the lens that we live in, our pr imar y focus is our own students. Our food pantr y has just extended r esour ces to pr ovide food for our students, I think, fr om thr ee to five days a week. That?s a
r eally big deal. We r ecognize that food insecur ity is a big issue nationally but also for our students. ... Also ther e is state legislation that has r ecently passed to pr ovide limited shower access for displaced students in the ar ea. That was r ecently enacted in Januar y, so for students who ar e inter ested in that, we'd like to dir ect students to our office of EOP to pr ovide those." What does t he fut ur e hold for bachelor 's degr ee pr ogr ams at communit y colleges, and will Cit y event ually offer a four -year degr ee? "Ther e was pr evious legislation that pr ovided a pilot to 15 (colleges), so our hope is that thr ough legislation, which our chancellor has been involved in state-wide, that the hope is to expand the pilot, and be given that oppor tunity. I know they wer e talking to the legislatur e to help us move for war d for a way of pr omoting a bill that would expand the pilot to mor e colleges, and absolutely, City is inter ested in being a par t of that, in par ticular, for our nur sing pr ogr am." Cit y College cur r ent ly offer s fr ee t uit ion for st udent s of some San D iego ar ea high schools. I s t her e a plan t o expand t his pr ogr am? "I t's sor t of an iter ative pr ocess. The oppor tunity to pr ovide tuition to as many students as we can is tr emendous on a lot of differ ent levels, so we've gone fr om 200 to 600 additional students. We want to make sur e that we do that, and we do that well. Our pr ogr am is r eally good because it pr ovides fee suppor t for students, so we?r e watching that car efully to expand. it would also be gr eat if we could expand BOG (Califor nia Boar d of Gover nor s Fee Waiver ) over all."
Sanctuary campus, sanctuary city? By MELISSADEPINERES City Times Some City College students say they have found themselves in the cr oss-hair s of a pledge by Pr esident Donald Tr ump to tar get some immigr ant gr oups and defund so-called sanctuar y cities. ?I feel scar ed that one day I might never go back home and that
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I will be depor ted to a countr y I ?ve never even been to,? said a nur sing student who asked to r emain anonymous. Though Pr esident Tr ump has made good on his pr omise to sign an executive or der blocking immigr ation fr om seven Middle East countr ies, his plan to cut funding for sanctuar y cities will face sever al complications, star ting with how a sanctuar y city is defined.
"I don't have a clue," U.S. Homeland Secur ity Secr etar y, John Kelly, r esponded when asked for the definition of a sanctuar y city at a Feb. 10 event held at the San Ysidr o inter national bor der cr ossing. While ther e is no legal definition of a sanctuar y city, the ter m is widely r efer r ed to as a policy by some U.S. cities of bar r ing any cooper ation with feder al immigr ation author ities.
The San Diego Community College Distr ict sent an email on Feb. 3 to students r eaffir ming suppor t for immigr ant students but did not use the wor d "sanctuar y." Nonetheless, the email left no doubt that the distr ict will do all it can to pr ovide suppor t and pr otection on its thr ee campuses. SeeSANCTUARYonpage3
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