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’S BOOK SPOTLIGHT

Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System Paperback – May 9, 2014 by Keith Hoeller (Editor) Buy it now ...
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CPFA’S BOOK SPOTLIGHT

The Freeway Flier and the Life of the Mind By Jean Waggoner and Douglas Snow – 2011 Author, Jean Waggoner, ...
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Contingent Faculty Bill of Rights

Dear Contingent Faculty, Every so often, on this list and at conferences, people comment that the contingent faculty movement needs ...
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SB 1379 and Job Security for Part-time Faculty

The Honorable Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841   September 8, 2016 ...
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AB 1690 and Job Security for Part-time Faculty

The Honorable Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841   August 26, 2016 ...
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We Was Robbed

Your Job Negotiated Every Day When I first started working as a part-timer, the job with its duties, working arrangements, ...
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Parity in California Community Colleges

The fall 2015  CPFA Journal  contains a long article that explains the history of pay parity achieved by the 72 ...
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Part-time Faculty activism and job loss: The fightback landscape

I have been wondering about how to develop a system, nationwide or statewide, that would serve as some sort of ...
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Article alleges CalSTRS is the biggest investor in an East Bay Real Estate empire that evicts people

Part-time faculty should be concerned about this newly released investigative piece, published yesterday in the East Bay Express.  It alleges ...
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CPFA’s Letter to NACIQI

CPFA's Letter to The National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) asks the Department of Education NOT to ...
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Letter to the NACIQI, Sacramento

TO:  National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity (NACIQI) DATE: September 23, 2015 SUBJECT:  Third Party Comment on the ...
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National Adjunct Walkout Day Action in Sacramento

Please join part-time faculty and allies for a day of action at the state Capitol building on Wednesday, February 25, ...
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