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 […]
This is a list of the most recent California Community College faculty contracts (collective bargaining agreements) that can be found online. This page is periodically updated; the last major revisions were made on 2/6/21. This list is maintained by John Govsky. If you know of any updates, please send John an e-mail.
As Chair of the California Part Time Faculty Association (CPFA), I am writing to express resounding support for AB 375. Tens of thousands of faculty in the California Community College system are in dire need of improvements to their working conditions, which this bill will help to bring about. We believe that this bill is one critical element to student success.
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 Dennis Selder A wonderful example of Foucault’s observations about how power and knowledge interact is teaching evaluation. Teaching evaluation is a special sort of knowledge that requires a difference in the power relationship among […]
by Dennis Selder It seems paradoxical to suggest that administrators and college presidents may be partly responsible for public disinvestment in higher education when the principal justification for having them around is to secure funds […]
Like many part-time faculty, you may have had occasion to meet with a student once in a great while. And perhaps during such occasions you felt uncomfortable or awkward speaking openly while eight part-time colleagues […]