CPFA Annual Conference 2021 – A Virtual Event
Let’s Make Some ‘Good Trouble’! May 8, 2021, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Preview the Conference Program...
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=California Community College Contracts
This is a list of the most recent California Community College faculty contracts (collective bargaining agreements) that can be found online. This page is periodically updated; the last major revisions were made on 2/6/21. This list is maintained by John Govsky. If you know of any updates, please send John an e-mail.
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AB 375 Support Letter
As Chair of the California Part Time Faculty Association (CPFA), I am writing to express resounding support for AB 375. Tens of thousands of faculty in the California Community College system are in dire need of improvements to their working conditions, which this bill will help to bring about. We believe that this bill is one critical element to student success.
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Update on AB 897: Raising the 67% Cap
Despite sailing through the Senate subcommittee on higher ed unopposed and having broad bipartisan support in both chambers, AB 897 (Medina) did not survive the legislators’ decision in March to consider only those bills necessary […]
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Federal Court Grants San Diego Community College District Immunity to Abuse Part-time Faculty with Impunity
At a time when the United States’ Commander in Chief tacitly endorses racist groups, when he delights in name-calling against political opponents, blatantly lies in a public debate and television interviews, when political acrimony is […]
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=Resolution Against Overloads
CPFA RESOLUTION AGAINST FULL-TIME FACULTY TEACHING OVERLOADS IN THE CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SYSTEM Background: The California Part-time Faculty Association has long held that full-time faculty in the California Community College system should not be allowed […]
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Chair’s Report Fall 2020
The year 2020 has been a rollercoaster ride, not least of all for those of us who teach at one or more community colleges in California. Like most educators, we’ve had to modify or completely […]
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Part-Time Faculty
By David Milroy, Carol Whaley, and Alexis Moore The California Part-Time Faculty Association (CPFA) sent out a survey to part-time faculty all over the state and the responses are even more alarming than one might […]
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Why Adjuncts Deserve Unemployment Compensation and How They Can Get It
By Keith Hoeller Why are teachers the only professionals routinely denied unemployment when they are not working? Though our nation’s unemployment system was established in 1935 by the Social Security Act, not until 1970 did […]
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Adjunct / Part-Time / Contingent: Changing Our Name Doesn’t Change Our Working Conditions
By Bobbi-Lee Smart, Ed.D. My dissertation research on the “Involuntary Adjunct” focused on the perceptions of the impact of adjuncts on community college campuses in Southern California. I specifically wanted to understand the reality of […]
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=Program for Change
1. Elements of the VCC-VCCFA Collective Agreement that support fairness for Term Faculty – November 2020 2. Excerpt of data from the VCCFA Seniority Chart – November 2020 3. Publications containing descriptions of the employment model […]
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=Join us for a Virtual Event – The Part-time Faculty Symposium 2020!
Registration is required, so reserve your spot today! View Event Program Below
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=Black Lives Matter
CPFA has always advocated for equity and fair treatment, and implicit in that mission is the responsibility to advocate for all marginalized communities. We at CPFA cannot and will not tolerate the systemic racism that […]
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=COVID-19 & Part-Time Faculty Survey Results
GREETINGS COLLEAGUES: CPFA wanted to hear from you all to find out from PART-TIME FACULTY what is currently being done in California with regard to your working conditions with Covid -19, which is temporarily changing […]
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Butte College To Hold Its 10th Annual PT Conference
Next month, on April 4th, 2020 Butte College will be hosting the 10th annual Associate Faculty Conference. This year’s theme is “Acknowledging and Affirming the value of Associate Faculty.” This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. […]