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The Guardsman

San Francisco, Calif.

New Interim Chancellor hired; pay and contract revealed

By Joe Fitzgerald The Guardsman Dr. Pamila Fisher, a retired educator and college chancellor, was appointed interim chancellor of City College in the wake of Dr. Don Q. Griffin’s early retirement. City College’s Board of Trustees met in a special closed session on Sunday, April 29, and voted

The Old Skool Cafe cooks up a future for SF youth

Cora Jean’s Old Skool Cafe, a non-profit youth-run supper club, takes you back to a place where the dim candle lights, piano tunes and oversized booths could have been taken right out of the 1940s. It’s a cafe with a mission.

Trayvons in the Bay

“We want justice,” Ashraf Farah Suliman of the Muslim Student Association said. “We need to get together to show that we are united, we have to take action to show that we want change.”

Interim President of NCCBAA Elected

A counselor at the Southeast campus, Dr. Mark Robinson, was recently elected interim president of the newly-formed Northern California Council on Black American Affairs.

OP ED: Writing Saved My Life

Writing has always been second nature to me. But it wasn’t until I published my first piece in Etc. Magazine that I realized the satisfaction of accomplishment in a way I never have before.

Emergency Drill: Incomplete?

The Guardsman James Fanucchi Faculty, students, and staff evacuated buildings on Ocean campus with mixed reactions on Thursday, April 12 when emergency alarms blared at 10:11 a.m. for City College’s yearly state-mandated evacuation exercise. “The drill took about 3 minutes total in terms of having the evacuation

Teacher Profile: Madeline Mueller

In the face of a $149 million statewide budget cut handed down on community colleges in February, City College of San Francisco music department chair Madeline Mueller is working hard to defend her already slim resources and maintain her diverse department.