City College of San Francisco will close its 47-year-old campus at Fourth and Mission streets this summer and move its culinary, fashion and language classes to other under-enrolled locations, including to the school’s Chinatown campus, the Chronicle has learned.
The campus at 88 Fourth St., one of six primary City College sites around the city, is set to lose more than $2 million in state funding next year because it enrolls the equivalent of just 152 full-time students — far short of the 1,000 required to continue receiving money from the state.
Because of that and the cost of maintaining the nine-story campus, “our leadership team has made the difficult decision not to schedule classes at the Downtown Center for the fall semester,” City College Chancellor Kimberlee Messina emailed employees Friday, noting that “there will be no job losses because of this change.”…