Welcome to The CPFA Blog

We’ve collected a variety of original news stories and analyses for your perusing, which focus on education in California, part-time faculty and/or unions in academia that have broad national appeal. As might be expected, we take special interest in social justice issues that slip under the radar of the mainstream media.

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CPFA Sponsors AB 2277: Raising the Part-Time Faculty Workload Cap

AB 2277 will increase the maximum number of instructional hours that a part-time California Community College faculty member may teach ...

Let the “Tracks” Merge

By Joseph G. Ramsey, PhDFaculty Staff Union (FSU/MTA/NEA)Senior Lecturer, UMass Bostonjgramsey@gmail.com  Is there any other profession besides professor @ academia ...

CPFA Celebrates 25 Years: A Founder Reflects

INTRODUCTION This year marks CPFA's 25th anniversary. There are still a few of us who remember those early days, and ...

On Seeking Broad, Systemic Change

Since 1998, the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) has been a leader in calling out the injustices facing part-time faculty ...

The Campaign for Faculty Equality

Key advocates who would soon become the board of the New Faculty Majority attending the 2010 COCAL Conference at Laval ...

Building Our Future: The One-Tier Model is The Answer!

The Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE) is a new statewide organization that aims to work in conjunction with existing advocacy ...

Tenured Faculty: Friend or Foe?

by Jack Longmate At the Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) conference of July 20, 2023, a number of the non-tenure-track ...

Life as a Contingent Faculty Member

By Carolyn Kuimelis and Mary Ellen Flannery Republished with permission of the National Education Association (NEA). Originally published 05/23/2023 at ...

Chair’s Report 2023

A new, two-year legislative cycle in Sacramento began this year, and with it, up to a quarter of California’s Senate ...

CPFA Legislative Efforts

By Daniel Thompson, CPFA Legislative Analyst This year the CPFA Legislative Task Force met with over a dozen offices of ...

Pursuing a One-Tier Faculty Workplace

By Jack Longmate The two-tier workplace, with an upper tier of tenured faculty and a lower tier of non-tenured faculty, ...

The Annual CPFA Conference 2023

The Annual CPFA Conference "One Tier System: It’s Time" May 6, 2023 from 10am to 4:30pm (On Zoom) Register Now ...