The Proposed Amendment to the Constitution Shall Article V of the CPFA Constitution be amended to include a new section as follows: Section 5. Notwithstanding any other section of Article V, elected council members may confirm additional […]
PRESS RELEASE The California Part Time Faculty Association (CPFA) announces that it will be co-sponsoring the new “Part-time Faculty Teaching Load” bill, AB 897 along with the California Federation of Teachers (CFT). Introduced to state legislators […]
Read about the CFT Convention vote to raise the part-time faculty workload cap to 80 percent on the CFT website or go directly to the the CFT convention report. If you like seeing news like […]
In December of 2014, we blogged about an upcoming documentary in the works: Freeway Fliers: A Documentary about Higher Education’s Best Kept Secret Now you can watch the full documentary film The film, by […]
On Wednesday, April 26th, CPFA Chair, John Martin, presented Assembly Member Medina with a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of all California’s part-time faculty in the California Community Colleges System (CCC System) and thanked him […]
Oakland, Calif. – The California Community College Board of Governors unanimously voted two days ago to formally adopt the recommendations of the Task Force on Accreditation. The Task Force released a report in late August of […]
The spring 2015 issue contains an important article by Bradley Rettele on his decision to leave academia, even though he only took one sick day in 11 years, was never late and filled his classes […]
Greetings, My name is Tim Raposa and I am the new Director of Public Relations for the California Part-Time Faculty Association. CPFA has sent this press release to the media in response to the recent […]
Assemblymember Paul Fong (D – Mountain View) will again sponsor rehire rights legislation, AB 852, to aid the job security of part-time faculty throughout the California’s community college system. But before giving more details, it’s […]
Sacramento, CA. The CPFA Executive Council announces the launch of a new blog, CPFA Forum Blog, which will attempt to keep up with the rapid cycling of Part-time faculty news and perspectives developing in the […]
Dear Members of the Media, As a provision of AB1143 (Liu), the Chancellor’s Office called on the California Community Colleges Board of Governors (BOG) to convene a Student Success Task Force charged with “developing a […]
The California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) supports the responses of the various other faculty organizations in regards to the provisions of the Student Success Task Force. As part-time faculty teach almost 50% of all courses […]