CPFA News - Past Editions

• 2010
  • Spring; .pdf document
    • Job security legislation introduced for part-time faculty
    • College Education, NOT! ~ The growing privatized online instruction industry
    • De facto vs. de jure: analysis of the CCC part-time salary data
    • Finally, a place at the table: Chancellor’s office establishes part-time faculty advisory committee
    • AB 1807: the complete text
    • Professional associations: why you should join yours
    • Contingent Academic Labor: A Bibliography
    • It’s ballot initiative petition-signing season: the good, the bad, and the ugly
    • A big thank-you from CPFA
• 2009
  • Fall; .pdf document
    • 8th Annual CPFA Summit meeting achieves consensus on need for job security legislation
    • California Higher Education Crisis: How much worse can it get
    • Obama expands student loan forgiveness to all educators
    • Chair Report ~ John Martin
    • Part-time faculty gain access to short-term disability insurance
    • Marin's Poet Laureate to work with community colleges
    • Letter to the editor
    • Fall 2008 data on part-time/full-time salary comparisons
  • Spring; .pdf document
    • Speaking with one voice, singing one key: and interview with Carl Friedlander and Ron Reel
    • What's the mater with Gavilan? Efforts at bargaining unit inclusion falter
    • FACCC conference addresses budget, other issues
    • Chair Report ~ David Milroy
    • Bill introduced to help part-timers get short-term disability insurance
    • Letter to the editor
    • ACR 31 calls for increasing full-time faculty positions and providing pro rata for part-time faculty
    • Academic Senate survey results
    • National update: New Majority Faculty Day April 30
• 2008
  • Fall; .pdf document
  • Spring; .pdf document
    • 2008 Spring Salary Chart; .pdf document
• 2007
  • Fall; pdf document
  • Spring; pdf document
• 2006
  • Fall; pdf document

CPFA News - Spring 2006

• Statewide Part-time/Full-time Salary Comparison Chart
  (Fall 2005 with Union Affiliation, Health Insurance, and Office Hour Comparisons)
• Explanatory Note
• Office Hour, Health Insurance Categorical Budget Items Could be Augmented by Growth Fund -- Phyllis Eckler
• The Devil's Advocate: The Two-Tier System as Meritocracy? The Arguments against Part-time Pay Parity with a Response from Lantz Simpson
• Chair Report - David Milroy
• A Guide to Acronyms in Higher Education
• Fair Share Union Fees: One Instructor's 10,000 Mile Journey -- Lin Fraser
• Allegory of the Cave - Pamela Hanford

CPFA News - Fall 2005

• Diminishing Returns: Why the 75% Full-time Instruction Law Needs to Be Enforced
• Frequently Asked Questions on the 80% Proposal;
• Raising the Employment Ceiling for Part-time Faculty from 60% to 80% of a Full Time Load
• Chair Report; Why 60 percent? Why Now?
• 60% Law Resolution
• San Francisco Summit Discusses Proposal to Change 60% Law
• Getting a Full-time Teaching Job in the Community Colleges: Interviews with Part-time Activists Who Have Succeeded
• Joe Berry Book Released: Reclaiming the Ivory Tower
• The Right to Unemployment Compensation Benefits

CPFA News - Spring 2005

• CFT Convention Passes Resolution Supporting Part-time Equity Fund Restoration
• Chair Report
• Keeping Part-timers Visible: What Next?
• Labor Unions and Communities of Faith
• Negotiation for Part-time Faculty: A Report from the Trenches
• The Right to Unemployment Compensation Benefits

CPFA News - Earlier Articles

• Lantz Simpson's History of the 60% Law (Fall 2002)
• CPFA Executive Council's Position Statement on the 60% Law" (60% resolution, Spring 2003 edition)
• Show Me the Money: Part-time Equity Fund Allocations, Fall 2003 (Spring 2004 edition)
• Drive a Little, Save a Lot: A Pharmaceutical Odyssey in Tijuana (Spring 2004)
• The Adventure Continues: Dentistry in Tijuana (Fall 2004)
• Show WHO the Money?? The Parity Fund 3 Years Later (Fall 2004)
• Chicago: Networking North America (Fall 2004)