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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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News from SDAFA

by Carlynne Allbee The San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA), mission is “Adjuncts Helping Adjuncts.” One tool is organizing professional ...
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Legislative Steps for the Future, CPFA Conference 2022

California Part-time Faculty Association Representing the Professional Interests of 38,000 Community College Non-Tenured Faculty and Their Students 2022 CPFA Annual ...
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An Employment Crisis in Higher Education

Teachers on Wheels A Three Part Documentary on the Employment Crisis in Higher Education By Id Janakos Part 1: Part ...
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Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty

Health care benefits have emerged as a battleground for adjunct instructors, who are critical to the mission of California’s community ...
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Adjuncts often find ladder leads to nowhere in California community colleges

PART 3 OF A THREE PART INVESTIGATION Part 1: The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditionsPart 2: Health care ...
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The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditions

Academic gig workers. Freeway flyers. The Uber drivers of academia. Call the part-time instructors who make up two-thirds of classroom ...
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The Associate-Professor Trap

Moving up the ladder means dealing with endless bureaucracy. For many, it’s not worth it. By Paula Rabinowitz. Republished with ...
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Part-time professors deserve the opportunity for full-time work

By Alexis Moore, Jack Longmate and Keith Hoeller When most people think of part-time (or adjunct) professors, they conjure up the image ...
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New Vision for the College for All Act of 2021

California Part-time Faculty Association Endorses the following Vision The One-Tier Model of Faculty Employment Context: The College for All Act ...
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