Dr. Kashara Moore has been a dedicated educator for years with remarkable evaluations both from faculty and students. This is the time for us to give back and help her to get back on her feet while she is in search of a job.
BY WENDY BRILL-WYNKOOP Good afternoon – Chair and members of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. I am Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, the Department Chair of Photography at College of the Canyons. I am the only full-time faculty […]
Whereas, existing California law (Assembly Bill 951, 2008) establishes that the contingent, part-time faculty workload is capped at 67 percent, amounting to no more than 10 units in the quarter system or 6 in the […]
BY RICK BAUM Teachers need to be organized in unions to protect their jobs and standard of living. Unfortunately, union leadership is too frequently dominated by full-timers who disregard the needs and interests of part-timers. At […]
Fellow Adjunct-Contingent Faculty and Allies: While we are in the early stages of this pandemic, it is abundantly clear that the COVID-19 outbreak has already created the greatest disruption in American Higher […]
Experiences in British Columbia by Frank Cosco, originally published on LABORonline’s blog (LAWCHA) on November 6th, 2017 Frank Cosco is currently First Vice-President of the Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of British Columbia. He’s been a faculty member at Vancouver Community […]
BY CAROLYN BETENSKY Guest Blogger / September 14, 2017 ACADEME BLOG, The blog of Academe magazine [Tenure for the Common Good has been re-posted with permission of the author] Those with the least job security […]
BY JEFF BAKER (Re-posted with permission of the author) Originally published July 27, 2016, ACADEME BLOG, The blog of Academe magazine The word overload can have more than one meaning to higher education faculty. It can mean […]
California Part Time Faculty Association (CPFA) supports National Adjunct Walkout Day (NAWD): “On February 25, 2015 adjuncts across the country will come together to insist on fair wages and better working conditions.” On that day, […]
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by William Lipkin | 5 July 2014 I became active in the labor movement over 25 years ago at a time when very few people even knew what the word ‘adjunct’ referred to. I immediately […]
2 June 2014 Editors Note: Ana M. Fores Tamayo teaches part time in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area of Texas, a state that dwarfs California in size and has quite different education codes. Given both states’ […]
The fall of 2013 has delivered a rich assortment of mainstream news stories and academic articles dealing with the tenuous circumstances of part-time faculty in higher education. In San Diego, The Reader published last week, […]