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Earlier this month, a fiscal management team issued a dire warning about the finances of City College San Francisco,

the city's two-year community college, which offers free tuition to all city residents.

According to the report, the college, quote, can no longer fulfill its commitments to its staff, faculty, administration, and most important its students,

while also remaining solvent.

The crisis described is not new to the administration, which announced in March that the

school is facing a $33 million budget shortfall for the upcoming academic year.

As a result, City College announced that it would cut 163 full-time faculty positions. Students and faculty are rallying to stop these layoffs. The administration says its hands are tied by declining enrollment and fiscal distress. We're talking about the future of City College now. First, with

Nanette Asimov, Higher Education Reporter with the San Francisco Chronicle. Welcome,

Annette.

Thank you. Good morning.

Can we just start with a how did we get here? I mean, I ran through it, but it's this service, this

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