[1] Folsom Lake College is in the Los Rios Community College District. Just days after Scott-Skillman took over as interim chancellor at CCSF, former Los Rios Chancellor Brice Harris took office as chancellor of the California community college system.
[2] Athena Stef and several other SEIU 1021 City College chapter leaders declined to be interviewed for this book.
[3] San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 19, 2012
[4] Martin Hittelman, “ACCJC Gone Wild,” March 1, 2013 edition, page 12. Accessed May 1, 2018. Hittelman continues to update his documentation at AccreditationWatch.com.
[5] Ibid., pp 37-8.
[6] Will Kenton, “Regulatory Capture,” Investopedia, Oct. 23, 2019. Accessed Jan. 24, 2020
[7] See examples in “Policy Network,” Appendix C on p. x . For example, Vickie Schray left ten years at the DOE to become Executive Vice President for External Affairs and Public Policy of Bridgepoint Education, a for-profit lobbying group.
[8] President George W. Bush’s Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings appointed Texas investment banker Charles Miller to lead a blue ribbon commission to re-envision postsecondary education. Miller was a board member of JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s number one purveyor of the most predatory private student loans. Miller ran a heavily staff-directed commission, churning out documents written by three key staffers, one of whom had been a senior vice president of Lumina.
[9] Doug Lederman, “When is student learning ‘good enough’?” Inside Higher Education 02.23.07
[10] U.S. Department of Education, A Test of Leadership, 2006, p. 25
[11] US Senator Tom Harkin issued a 1,000-page report in 2008 on for-profit colleges, and the General Accounting Office also produced two damning investigations. From “What is the ACCJC: Facts and Analysis,” by the research team from Save CCSF/Fight Back. The pamphlet cites an article by Chris Kirkham, “The Battle for Influence in Washington,” Huffington Post, April 25, 2011.
[12] “What is the ACCJC: Facts and Analysis,” by the research team from Save CCSF/Fight Back
[13] http://colemanadvocates.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/CCSF-SMAC-Demands-for-CCSF-Sustainability.pdf {PDF LINK DIDN’T WORK}