Invisible No More
Invisible No More PART-TIME FACULTY, UNPAID LABOR, AND THE PUSH FOR EQUITY AFTER ROBERTS V. LBCCD By Crystal Huckabee, Ed.D. (c) Part-time faculty are the backbone of California’s community college system. We teach the same […]
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2026 Chair’s Report
By John Martin, CPFA Chair Over the past several months, CPFA has worked to identify a legislative author for a proposal aimed at strengthening seniority protections for part-time faculty in California’s community colleges. While we […]
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The Metric Trap
THE METRIC TRAP HOW A 50-YEAR-OLD STRATEGY IS KILLING ACADEMIC FREEDOM By Scott Douglas, CPFA Southern Regional Representative The institution of tenure is, as ever, in the crosshairs. But the latest offensive—tying tenure to workload […]
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Conference 2026 — CPFA: Moving Forward
Join us on Zoom May 16, 2026 for CPFA's Annual Conference, CPFA: Moving Forward. Register now online. It's open and free to all part-time faculty and allies.
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WARNING! Districts Skirt Lawsuits With New Collective Bargaining Agreements
By John Martin, CPFA Chair As many of you may know, several lawsuits have been ongoing since October 2022. At that time, a total of 20 community college districts were put on notice by individual […]
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Adjunct, A Feature-Length Film
By Rick Baum, Part-time instructor at City College of San Francisco Adjunct, a feature-length film written, directed by, and starring Ron Najor, realistically covers much of what happens in the life of a higher education […]
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The Move to a One-tier System Needs Safeguards for Legacy Adjuncts
By Scott Douglas, CPFA SoCal Regional Representative The movement for a one-tier faculty system in California Community Colleges (CCC) is gaining momentum—and rightly so. Its goal is to eliminate the structural inequities between part-time and […]
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My Effort to Get My Union to Support a Demand in Negotiations for Equal Pay for Equal Work
By Rick Baum Under the two-tier system in higher education (that has continued for more than 40 years), the pay packages per class taught of two equally qualified and experienced faculty remain extremely unequal. The […]
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ASCCC Passed Resolution for a United Faculty (One-tier Model)
By Annette Owens, CPFA Greater L.A. Regional Representative This spring, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) officially joined the alphabet soup of organizations who are on record supporting the United Faculty (aka: One Tier, […]
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Recorded Presentations from the CPFA 2025 Conference
Keynote Address: The Historic Passage of HR 82—Repealing the Unjust WEP and GPO Susan Dixon, President of the California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) Retirement for Part-time Educators Jennifer Helfend Gomez, California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) […]
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Letter of Support for AB 1028: Identifying Potential Risks
As Chair of the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA), I want to express our sincere gratitude for your proposed legislation. Your bill represents a commendable effort to support California community college faculty and increase tenure density. However, I am writing to bring to your attention a critical issue: the proposal to advance part-time faculty into tenure-track positions may conflict with existing laws and could result in significant unintended consequences.
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A Historic Victory: Repealing the Unjust WEP & GPO
By Susan Dixon, President California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) The journey to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) has been arduous and fraught with challenges. Yet, the dedication and perseverance […]
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CPFA Endorses a One-Tier System in the California Community Colleges
CPFA is working to achieve a basic democratic principle: Equality. CPFA seeks to eliminate the inequality faced by part-time faculty when compared to their full-time colleagues by establishing a One-Tier System in the California Community Colleges (CCC), in which faculty with the same qualifications, experience, and responsibilities are supported and compensated proportionately according to their workload.
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Tackling Opposition to the One-tier Vision
Part-time parity…raising the cap…it seems like every organization and union in California has their own idea about what will make part-time faculty “more equal” to full-time faculty. Legislatively, these movements have been stopped, some by the Governor himself. Now, all of these organizations have started exploring the idea of moving away from or even eliminating the multi-tiered system. But what does it mean to be “One-Tier”?
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2025 Chair’s Report
By John Martin, CPFA Chair Since Governor Newsom’s veto on our bill, AB 2277 last September, CPFA fell into a bit of a funk—at least I did. But we’re pushing forward now with a renewed […]