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Sacramento community colleges cut classes to catch up with steep enrollment drop
By Dante Motley
Originally published
July 25, 2022
SacBee Los Rios Community College District is cutting planned classes for the fall as it aligns its offering with the steep drop in enrollment that unfolded during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the past two years, enrollment at Los Rios’s four colleges — American River, Cosumnes ...
Originally published
July 25, 2022
SacBee Los Rios Community College District is cutting planned classes for the fall as it aligns its offering with the steep drop in enrollment that unfolded during the coronavirus pandemic. Over the past two years, enrollment at Los Rios’s four colleges — American River, Cosumnes ...
Parity Pay or Equal Pay?
By Jack Longmate “Pay parity” is a term perennially associated with part-time faculty in a two-tiered workplace, not part-time workers in other professions paid on the same basis as full-time workers, such as part-time engineers, physicians, retail cashiers, or K-12 teachers. The “parity pay” bill, AB-1752, is described by the ...
Why Don’t All the Contingent Professors Strike or Just Quit?
By Keith Hoeller From time to time, people have suggested some version of the following: "If you don't like your contingent teaching jobs, why don't you just quit? The first time I heard this question was in a public hearing before the Washington House of Representatives Higher Education Committee. The ...
Power Despite Precarity
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education "A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists"Independent Radical Publishing Overview Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At the heart of this struggle are the precariously employed faculty ‘contingents’ who work without basic ...
How can California improve the working conditions of community college adjuncts?
Panel says worsening circumstances call for novel solutions By Michael Burke of EdSource.org (Article republished with permission of EdSource) CREDIT: EdSource The second class status of part-time faculty at California’s community colleges is a decades-long problem that demands novel solutions. With conditions worsening, state and local leaders need to find ...
California Community College Faculty Contracts
“If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” 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 ...
Support for AB 1752: Pay Parity For PTers
A recent letter sent to Assembly Member Holden expressing CPFA's strong endorsement of AB 1752, which would help to bring about pay parity for part-time faculty ...
Equal Pay for Equal Work
by Eric Kaljumägi, CCA President CCA/CTA Co-sponsored Legislation AB 1752 (Santiago) For too long, Long Beach City College (LBCC) and other community colleges throughout the state have unfairly and unlawfully exploited part-time faculty. This exploitation goes against the original legislative intent allowing community colleges to hire some part-time faculty to ...
Raising the Cap on Part-time Faculty Employment
By Sandy Baringer Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside) has introduced a third bill, AB1856, to raise the cap on part-time faculty employment in the community colleges from 67% to 85%. The first attempt, AB897, passed the Assembly early in 2020 but never made it out of the Senate. A similar bill, ...
Chair’s Report (2022)
By John Martin, Chair of CPFA Last year, community college part-time faculty activists and their allies were outraged when the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee killed AB-1269 and then again when Governor Newsome vetoed AB-375. These two outcomes brought about shock, grief and anger amongst many of us, and CPFA’s listserv exploded ...
News from SDAFA
by Carlynne Allbee The San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA), mission is “Adjuncts Helping Adjuncts.” One tool is organizing professional development presentations to provide information that part-timers need to know to make the most of our difficult situations. Such events should be happening on every campus across the state. A ...
Full Conference Program, 2022
CPFA Annual Conference, 2022 May 7, 2022 from 10:00 am to 4 pm 10:00 am – Introductions & Welcome!
- John Martin, CPFA Chair
- Laurel Hartley, Conference Chair
- Members of the CPFA Executive Council
- Keynote Speaker: Thomas Peele, ...
California Retired Teachers Association Sponsors Two Bills to Protect Our STRS Pensions
By David Milroy As a recently retired part-time instructor who got hit hard by the WEP, I joined the California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) because they are leading the charge to eliminate this horrid SSA rule. CalRTA was founded in 1929 and is one of the nation’s largest organizations for ...
CPFA Conference Program Highlights
Annual CPFA Conference, 2022 Saturday, May 7th from 10AM to 3:30PM PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS Keynote Speaker: Thomas Peele, EdSource Investigative Reporter “What I Learned While Investigating Working Conditions of CA Part-time Faculty” Thomas Peele is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter. His journalism career began in 1983 at a small ...
