SAN FRANCISCO—Beginning in fall 2023, City College of San Francisco (CCSF) will start offering a Cantonese certificate program, the first of its kind in the United States.
“After over a year-long effort of the advocacy of over 40 community organizations, we were able to make that happen,” CCSF board trustee member Alan Wong said at a press conference on Nov. 10.
The Cantonese classes were nearly canceled due to a lack of certificates.
CCSF will provide two certificate programs, a nine-unit certificate and a seventeen-to-nineteen-unit certificate. The latter meets state standards and will get CCSF additional funding for enrollments, Wong said.
“Now Cantonese classes share the same worth with other language classes,” he said….