City College of San Francisco
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| Motto | The Truth Shall Make You Free |
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| Type | Public (two-year) |
| Established | August 26, 1935 |
| Chancellor | Dr. Susan E. Lamb (interim) |
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Administrative staff
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1,836 |
| Undergraduates | 33,165 [2012] |
| Location | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Sports Team | CCSF Rams |
| Website | www.ccsf.edu |
Coordinates: 37°43′33″N 122°27′01″W / 37.725716°N 122.450178°W
City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year community college in San Francisco, California. The Ocean Avenue campus, bordering the Sunnyside, Westwood Park and Ingleside neighborhoods, is the college's largest location. The College has locations across the District.
City College of San Francisco first opened on September 4, 1935 as San Francisco Junior College and it had no central campus at the time. It was nicknamed "Trolley Car College" in the early days since students were forced to travel extensively to get between campuses. As the enrollment grew over time, so did the CCSF campus. In February 1948, the name was changed to City College of San Francisco. It now consists of eleven campuses, the Ocean Campus being the primary one. Since its founding in 1935, City College has evolved into a multicultural, multi-campus community college that is one of the largest in the country. CCSF offers courses in more than 50 academic programs and over 100 occupational disciplines. There is a full range of credit courses leading to the Associate of Arts and Science degrees, most of which meet the general education requirements for transfer to a four-year colleges and universities.
In 2012, the college began experiencing significant public turmoil. On July 2, 2012, the college's regional accreditor, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC), gave the college eight months to prove it should remain accredited and ordered it to "make preparations for closure". As summarized by the San Francisco Chronicle in 2015, "the commission has never found wrongdoing or substandard instruction, but has said the college should lose accreditation because of tangled governance structures, poor fiscal controls and insufficient self-evaluation and reporting."
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