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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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Full Time Faculty Member Testifies on AB 897

BY WENDY BRILL-WYNKOOP Good afternoon – Chair and members of the Assembly Higher Education Committee.      I am Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, the ...
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Resolution : Foothill – De Anza Faculty Association Supports Assembly Bill 897

Whereas, existing California law (Assembly Bill 951, 2008) establishes that the contingent, part-time faculty workload is capped at 67 percent, ...
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The Role of the Teachers’ Union in Enrollment Management

BY RICK BAUM Teachers need to be organized in unions to protect their jobs and standard of living.  Unfortunately, union ...
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When Part-Timers Have to Absorb Class Cuts

BY RICK BAUM     For the Fall 2019 term, the administration at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) made drastic ...
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67% Cap Needs to be Raised to 80-85%

BY SCOTT DOUGLAS In 2007, the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) worked with Assembly member Mervyn Dymally to get the ...
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Protecting Part-time Faculty from the Backlash of COVID-19

Fellow Adjunct-Contingent Faculty and Allies: While we are in the early stages of this pandemic, it is abundantly clear that ...
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CPFA Part-time Faculty Retirement Survey 2019 By David Milroy In the spring 2019 issue, CPFA posted a survey concerning part-time ...
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CPFA Annual Spring Conference April 11, 2020 – CANCELLED

Official Notice: CPFA's 2020 Spring Conference has been cancelled due to the emergency closure of its venue, Diablo Valley College, ...
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What is the WEP?

By David Milroy, CPFA Director of Administration The Windfall Elimination Provision was enacted in 1983 as part of major amendments ...
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IMHO – Chair’s Report

Since my last update, an important bill, AB 897, was authored by Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside) to raise the 67% ...
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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations in California’s Higher Education

By Keith Law     This article was published in the CPFA Journal, Fall 2019 edition, and originally appeared in the online ...
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Highlights from the 2019 CPFA Conference

The Exploitation of Part-Time Professors It’s a well-known secret that public higher education in California and across the country is ...
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