Schadenfruede & Adjuncts
25 February 2014 by Marnie Webster Much has been written about the working conditions of part time professors for good reason: they stink. The more we talk openly about the academy’s hypocritical two tier system, […]
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Instant Office
Like many part-time faculty, you may have had occasion to meet with a student once in a great while. And perhaps during such occasions you felt uncomfortable or awkward speaking openly while eight part-time colleagues […]
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What?
by Dennis Selder On February 6th, the PBS Newshour, ran a show “Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet.” In it are the familiar cast of characters—the full-timer who […]
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Challenges Contingent Faculty Face in Improving Their Teaching
by Dennis Selder As a newbie teaching nights at Southwestern College, I was lucky to run into a guy named Steve Kowit. We both had three-hour classes on the same nights of the week, […]
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Keith Hoeller has edited an important new book about contingency! Take Note!
Now out in Paperback: Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System Alex Kudera says, in reviewing the book, “There’s something weird and creepy about a democracy that insists upon universal ‘access’ to higher education and […]
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Betting on the CPFA
Betting on the CPFA: A Pragmatic Solution to the “Perilous World of the Adjunct Professor” By John Martin, Chair California Part-time Faculty Association Presented May 5, 2017 PAL Conference In a December 2013 edition […]
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Should Full-Time Faculty Be CPFA Members?
The fall of 2013 has delivered a rich assortment of mainstream news stories and academic articles dealing with the tenuous circumstances of part-time faculty in higher education. In San Diego, The Reader published last week, […]
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What Happened to Inspiration from Government?
When I was a kid, I remember the rush I got reading Johnny Tremain. Sure, it’s a great story, but what really grabbed me at the time—made my head want to explode–were the ideas about […]
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A congressman from just north of the Bay area calls for contingent faculty to speak up
Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.), senior Democrat on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, today announced an eForum to investigate how an increased reliance on contingent faculty by colleges and universities nationwide has impacted the […]
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Lessons from the Death of a Part-Time Faculty Member
After listening to educators’ responses to the account of Margaret Mary Vojtko’s life as a destitute contingent faculty member at Duquesne University, I find myself both saddened and angered. The anger comes from the reaction […]
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LIVE-BLOG CCSF Forum – Nov 7, 2013
Rich Hansen (FHDA) , Ron Galatolo (SMCCD), Jackie Spears, Anna Eshoo, jim Beal (all legislators) , Rafael Mandelman (CCSF trustee from the dissolved board of trustees), Josh Pechtault (CFT), Ron Gerhard (CCSF admin), Assemblyman Tom […]
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Finally Getting to See a Doctor?
Tuesday this upcoming week is a big day for my eyesight, my aching elbow, my colon—the colonoscopy may now be just around the corner, oh joy!—and maybe even my left front tooth, which could use […]
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CPFA Announces New Blog
Sacramento, CA. The CPFA Executive Council announces the launch of a new blog, CPFA Forum Blog, which will attempt to keep up with the rapid cycling of Part-time faculty news and perspectives developing in the […]
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Across-the-Board Raises
Sound great, right? What could be fairer, you say, than the “same” raise for everyone? When your union announces an across the board raise, even a substantial one, like 4 or 5%, hold on to […]