Why this history strengthens the legislative case for reform By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative The finding, in plain language California’s community colleges run on part-time faculty. More than 40% of credit teaching has […]
The Judicial Error and Legislative Inaction That Created California’s Two-Tier Faculty System By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative Introduction The California Community College system employs tens of thousands of part-time instructors who have delivered […]
What the gap costs, and why the state cannot yet measure it By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative What the number is, in plain language California’s community colleges pay part-time faculty less per unit […]
Equal Pay for Equal Work in California Community Colleges By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative I. Introduction The companion paper Nobody Ever Voted for This (CPFA, August 3, 2026) documents how the two-tier faculty […]
A mechanism for pro-rata parity — and why the litigation makes it urgent By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative The problem is now a legal liability California’s community colleges pay part-time faculty only for […]
Restoring Pro-Rata Parity and a Path Out of Permanent Contingency By Scott Douglas, Southern California Regional Representative I. Executive Summary California community college part-time faculty deliver over 40% of credit instruction statewide and have done […]
THE METRIC TRAP HOW A 50-YEAR-OLD STRATEGY IS KILLING ACADEMIC FREEDOM By Scott Douglas, CPFA Southern Regional Representative The institution of tenure is, as ever, in the crosshairs. But the latest offensive—tying tenure to workload […]
Join us on Zoom May 16, 2026 for CPFA's Annual Conference, CPFA: Moving Forward. Register now online. It's open and free to all part-time faculty and allies.
By Scott Douglas, CPFA SoCal Regional Representative The movement for a one-tier faculty system in California Community Colleges (CCC) is gaining momentum—and rightly so. Its goal is to eliminate the structural inequities between part-time and […]
By Rick Baum Under the two-tier system in higher education (that has continued for more than 40 years), the pay packages per class taught of two equally qualified and experienced faculty remain extremely unequal. The […]
By Annette Owens, CPFA Greater L.A. Regional Representative This spring, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) officially joined the alphabet soup of organizations who are on record supporting the United Faculty (aka: One Tier, […]
Keynote Address: The Historic Passage of HR 82—Repealing the Unjust WEP and GPO Susan Dixon, President of the California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) Retirement for Part-time Educators Jennifer Helfend Gomez, California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) […]
CPFA is working to achieve a basic democratic principle: Equality. CPFA seeks to eliminate the inequality faced by part-time faculty when compared to their full-time colleagues by establishing a One-Tier System in the California Community Colleges (CCC), in which faculty with the same qualifications, experience, and responsibilities are supported and compensated proportionately according to their workload.
Part-time parity…raising the cap…it seems like every organization and union in California has their own idea about what will make part-time faculty “more equal” to full-time faculty. Legislatively, these movements have been stopped, some by the Governor himself. Now, all of these organizations have started exploring the idea of moving away from or even eliminating the multi-tiered system. But what does it mean to be “One-Tier”?
CPFA: Past, Present & Future Saturday, May 10, 2025: 10:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m. On Zoom Registration is required, but free and open to all part-time faculty and allies!