If Students Can’t Get Classes, How Will They Graduate?
SF City College is historically known for having a student body of low-income students of color. These are students who already face adversity and educational inequity, and CCSF is perpetuating this vicious cycle. Notoriously known as a school that is overcrowded with limited courses, students are now struggling to complete their programs for their respective certificate and/or degree due to not enough classes being scheduled for the 2025 fall term. Currently, a majority of CCSF courses offered have full enrollment with maximum waitlists. These maximum waitlists consist of 10 spots, which means that if students were not able to enroll in the course, they have very limited opportunity to get themselves on the waitlist because of these structural barriers. This greatly complicates things because if students cannot enroll and/or access the waitlist, how will they graduate?
This pushes the overall greater need for more public education funding. There must be more funding in order to have more courses available to students, to be able to onboard more faculty to teach these courses, and to offer educational equity. Without this funding, there has been an incredible decline in student enrollment, which is not on the student, but the institution and city of San Francisco. Because of Prop. 13, corporations are not paying their fair share in property taxes , which means they are sitting on almost $17 billion dollars of revenue that could go directly to funding public education. With San Francisco’s diverse nature, it is important to advocate and represent those who want to continue their pursuit of higher education, rather than prevent it.
Rick Baum, 48 Hills
City College Hurts Students by Not Offering Enough Classes—Again
By Rick Baum |August 4 2025| 48 Hills