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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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2022 Executive Council Elections
Dear Valued Members of The California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA): Nominations for the CPFA Executive Council, listed below, will be accepted starting today, April 11th and remain open until midnight, Friday, April 16th. We will publish candidate statements on the CPFA website on April 26th. Voting will be online and ...
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 Conference “Legislative Steps for the Future” Saturday, May 7th @ 10AM - 4PM A Virtual Event Register Now! (FREE - Registration required) Full conference program coming soon. View Program Election ...
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 2: Part 3: ...
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 colleges to educate about 1.5 million of the state’s most vulnerable students. The 72 local districts that govern the colleges and the state have virtually ignored a nagging issue: There ...
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 conditions
- Part 2: Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty
The Collapse of Community College Enrollment: Can California Turn It Around?
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 tide of departing students and bring them back. So far, progress has been uneven. Through ...
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 teachers in the country’s largest higher-education system what you will. What matters most to them is whether they’re called. Every semester they wait for work assignments that may make them ...
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 permission from The Chronicle. “Sustained rejection of a total institution often requires sustained orientation to its formal organization, and hence, paradoxically, a deep kind of involvement in the establishment.”—Erving Goffman ...
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 formal organization, and hence, paradoxically, a deep kind of involvement in the establishment.”—Erving Goffman ...
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 of someone with a full-time job and benefits in the private sector who chooses to teach an occasional evening class. While this may have been the original intention when this ...
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How Social Security Offsets Harm Community College Faculty Presentation by Jennifer Baker – Legislative Advocate, California Retired Teachers Association
FACCC Part-time Faculty Conference, November 19, 2021 ...
FACCC Part-time Faculty Conference, November 19, 2021 ...
Equity in Learning Starts With Equity for Community College Teachers
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 distribution of income in our society. Study after study shows that students who attend ...
Rally At CA Community College Board Of Governors In Sacramento
Zero COVID Now! Stop Privatization! Watch the video of the rally held in Sacramento on Monday, September 20th, 2021 demanding that California community colleges be made safe and for the reversal of detrimental state policies. In the first action in the United States, California community college faculty, students, trade unionists ...
Can Colleges Reform Their Police Departments?
Can Colleges Reform Their Police Departments? One Says Yes, and Here’s How By Nell Gluckman SEPTEMBER 21, 2021 Protesters demonstrate at Portland State University in 2020, calling for the campus police department to be disarmed. A University of Massachusetts at Amherst employee was walking from the campus recreation center to ...
