Mar
20
2008
In this March 5 article in the Bohemian, New College trustee Jane Swan faults the school’s rapid growth for the financial disaster—indicating that if the trustees had a few more years to build an endowment, things might be peachy. What Swan neglects to mention, however, is that the neglect to build an endowment in the past, combined with ill-thought-out real estate investments and whimsically-added programs that hemorrhaged funds, were all decisions made by the trustees themselves. How a professional adviser to the wealthy like Northern Trust VP Jane Swan could fail to understand basic economics is beyond me.
Mar
02
2008
New College Trustees July 2007
Ernest Brown
3848 Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA 94131
Director, Youth Treatment and Education Court
Tedd Corman
546 Everett Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Managing Member - Kensington Homes, LLC
Peter J. Gabel
386 Elizabeth Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
President of Social Change for Life
Martin Hamilton
1991 Ludwig Avenue
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
Phillip Knowlton
5250 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastapol, CA 95472
Co-Founder, Craigslist
Luis Molina
2601 Mission Street, Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94110
Attorney at Law
Colleen S. O'Neal
988 Kenmore Lane
Santa Rosa, CA 9540
Attorney at Law
Rodel Rodis
2429 Ocean Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94127
President, Board of Trustees, City College of San Francisco
James Rucker
1076 S. Van Ness Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94110
Director, Downtown College Preparatory School, San Jose
Cathrine Sneed (former chairperson of the board)
The Garden Project
P.O. Box 24292
San Francisco, CA 94124
Special Assistant to the Sheriff, City and County of San Francisco
Jane E. Swan
1100 Church Street
San Francisco, CA 94114
Vice President, Northern Trust
James Sweeney
9086 Trumbauer Way
Elk Grove, CA 95758
CEO - Meadowview Community Action, Inc.
Feb
29
2008
New College Trustees July 2005
Ernest Brown
Tedd Corman
Kristin Faust
Peter Gabel
Martin Hamilton
Agar Jaicks
Luis Molina
Colleen O’Neal
Rodel Rodis
Ronald Smith
Cathrine Sneed
James Sweeney
New College Trustees July 2003
Jerry Black
Kristin Faust
Peter Gabel
Martin Hamilton
Agar Jaicks
Linn Jones
Luis Molina
Colleen O’Neal
Rodel Rodis
Cathrine Sneed
James Sweeney
New College Trustees July 2002
Jerry Black
Peter Gabel
Martin Hamilton
Linn Jones
Colleen O’Neal
Rodel Rodis
Cathrine Sneed
James Sweeney
New College Trustees July 2001
Jerry Black
Peter Gabel
Martin Hamilton
Kim Jackson
Linn Jones
Hans Kolbe
Colleen O’Neal
Rodel Rodis
David L. Smith
Cathrine Sneed
James Sweeney
Matthew Wilkes
Feb
22
2008
Reports from students who attended the Alice in Wonderland get together with the three remaining trustees Ted Corman, Philip Knowlton, and Jane Swan today, attest to the ethereal ambience created by the trustees’ inability to come to grips with the reality of loss of accreditation and access to federal funding. Allegedly, the accrediting agency WASC informed the trustees this morning that they have ten days to formulate a plan to deal with student, alumni, and employee issues under school closure. But instead of being forthright with those in attendance this afternoon about what will happen as the school disassembles, the trustees dithered in their delusions about what programs they might keep as profitable ventures in their looking glass world, as though the disaster of the last nine months never happened.
To say we find it odd that this remnant board that fails to make records available and likely doesn’t even constitute a legal quorum under federal law, is yet able to prolong the misery of everyone involved simply because they haven’t been hauled before a judge, is an understatement. The fact they haven’t been sued personally for the harms they’ve caused as trustees puzzles us no end.