CCSF's Civic Center Campus at 1170 Market: Getting the Word Out about the New Location

Yesterday I delivered a lot of flyers and brochures to the West Portal Library, where I also removed the ones from summer that were still there.

I'd made a list of all the material, but it was only yesterday that I noticed the wrong address for the Civic Center, no longer at 750 Eddy,  was still on three of the brochures.  (I didn't leave them.)

I sent out a message about this to the ESL Department early this morning, relating the incident with the Asian woman who hadn't gotten the message that the school had a new site at 1170 Market Street.

At  the Sunday Streets in the Tenderloin, an Asian woman passing by our CCSF Enrollment table said, "School closed!" and pointed towards Eddy.  When we told her that 750 was closed but another school was open, she said, "Too far!"  So we understood that she was thinking of the Chinatown/Northbeach campus.  We told her about the new site at 1170 Market,  showed her how to get there and gave her a Civic Center flyer. 

She served as a reminder that we need to be sure that everyone knows about the 1170 Market Street site for the Fall semester.

I noticed that three of the flyers I was about to take around needed to be updated: 

The red, white, and pink  "CCSF Find Your Community" pamphlet (Metro Academy, Puente, Project Survive,  Yo, Accelerated Math Gateway, Bridge to Bioscience)   still has 750 Eddy on the back.   

The green, white and black "Build Your Future" brochure has 750 Eddy on the back.

The 2013 (still being given out because so much of it applies to 2015) has 750 Eddy given as the address on the inside of the back cover.

Then I called the number given on the "CCSF Find Your Community" brochure, which has 750 Eddy for its address.  The recorded message identified the number (415 561-1878)  as that of the Counseling Department, and I was asked to leave my name and telephone number, but I didn't hear anything about the new Civic Center address at 1170 Market Street.

I wrote to Carl Jew, head of Counseling for the Civic Center Campus and John Adams, to ask whether the new address could be added to the recorded message.  I also asked who was in charge of printing new brochures. 

 I called two other numbers--the one for the Career & Technical Education Program Guide from 2013 (used in 2015) and "Build Your Future/Study English, both of which gave 750 Eddy as the address.  

It's not difficult to cross through the 750 Eddy address and write in 1170 Market, but people need to know that the wrong address is on the brochures so they can make the change before taking around the material.