Nominations for the CPFA Executive Council will be accepted starting today, April 11 and remain open until midnight, Friday, April 16. We will publish candidate statements on the CPFA website on April 26th. Voting will be online and take place from Monday, May 3rd to midnight, Friday, May 6th. Nominate your candidate today!
“Legislative Steps for the Future” 2022 Annual Conference - Virtual Saturday, May 7, 2022 @9:30AM Register Now! (Free Registration required)
LOS ANGELES — In a news conference this morning, two Long Beach City College (LBCC) part-time faculty members announced they have filed a class-action lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against Long Beach Community College District (LBCCD) over failure to compensate them and hundreds of other adjunct faculty. . . .
Teachers on Wheels A Three Part Documentary on the Employment Crisis in Higher Education By Id Janakos Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:
Health care benefits have emerged as a battleground for adjunct instructors, who are critical to the mission of California’s community colleges to educate about 1.5 million of the state’s most vulnerable students. The 72 local […]
PART 3 OF A THREE PART INVESTIGATION Part 1: The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditions Part 2: Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty Click here to read all stories […]
by Mikhail Zinshteyn, CALmatters Originally published in Lost Cost Outpost After community college enrollment collapsed in late 2020, California lawmakers last year gave the system of public two-year colleges $120 million to help stem the […]
Academic gig workers. Freeway flyers. The Uber drivers of academia. Call the part-time instructors who make up two-thirds of classroom teachers in the country’s largest higher-education system what you will. What matters most to them […]
Moving up the ladder means dealing with endless bureaucracy. For many, it’s not worth it. By Paula Rabinowitz. Republished with permission from The Chronicle. “Sustained rejection of a total institution often requires sustained orientation to its […]
By Alexis Moore, Jack Longmate and Keith Hoeller When most people think of part-time (or adjunct) professors, they conjure up the image of someone with a full-time job and benefits in the private sector who chooses to […]
How Social Security Offsets Harm Community College Faculty Presentation by Jennifer Baker – Legislative Advocate, California Retired Teachers AssociationFACCC Part-time Faculty Conference, November 19, 2021
California has long prided itself on its community college system, with some 73 districts serving over 400,000 students each year. In recent decades, the state has seen two-year colleges as a means to balance the unequal […]
