“Pay parity” is a term perennially associated with part-time faculty in a two-tiered workplace, not part-time workers in other professions paid on the same basis as full-time workers, such as part-time engineers, physicians, retail cashiers, or K-12 teachers. The “parity pay” bill, AB-1752...
Panel says worsening circumstances call for novel solutions By Michael Burke of EdSource.org (Article republished with permission of EdSource) The second class status of part-time faculty at California’s community colleges is a decades-long problem that demands […]
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California Part-time Faculty Association Endorses the following Vision The One-Tier Model of Faculty Employment Context: The College for All Act of 2021, has been heralded as “the most substantial federal investment in higher education in […]
Report (with some personal commentary) on The CFT 80% Resolution By John Govsky, Co-Chair CFT Part-Time Faculty Committee The California Federation of Teachers (CFT), at its 2018 convention, passed a resolution stating that the CFT […]
This chart shows the insidious web of assault on our public education system. While the chart reveals the system behind privatizing our primary and secondary schools, many of the same groups are actively involved in […]
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 As a newbie teaching nights at Southwestern College, I was lucky to run into a guy named Steve Kowit. We both had three-hour classes on the same nights of the week, […]