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  • Sick Leave Can Increase Your Service Credit Toward Retirement But It Is Being Unfairly Calculated For Part-time Faculty In Some Districts

    by Curtis Williams As a part-time member enrolled in the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), what happens to my sick leave balance when I retire? Most of us have heard it can add to […]

    2024-11-18CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • ASM Greg Wallis’ AB 2277 (FACT SHEET): Raising the Part-Time Faculty Workload Cap

    AB 2277 will increase the maximum number of instructional hours that a part-time California Community College faculty member may teach at any one community college district and allow students to build stronger relationships with existing faculty.

    2024-04-24CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • CPFA Wants to Amplify Your Voice on Part-Time Faculty Issues

    CPFA is seeking creative and impactful submissions that relate to part-time labor issues. We’re looking for diverse voices and formats to spark conversation and inspire action.

    2024-04-24CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • Part-time Healthcare and AB 190 

    What Management Says Vs. the Truth By Geoff Johnson The money will go away, or it’s uncertain.  Truth: The governor personally pushed for the inclusion of the 200 million dollars in ongoing funding into  the […]

    2024-04-24CPFA Journal, Legislation, Publications

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  • 2024 Chair’s Report

    Assembly Bill 2277 (Wallis), our bill to raise the part-time teaching cap from 67% to 85% of a full-time course load, is now going through the political process in Sacramento. (For more on this bill, […]

    2024-04-24Chair's Report, CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • Rehire Rights and Raising the Cap

    CPFA is sponsoring AB-2277 (Wallis) to raise the part-time teaching limit from 67% to 85% of a full-time teaching load. If successful, this would allow for the possibility of a part-timer teaching as much as […]

    2024-04-24CPFA Journal, Legislation, Publications

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  • 2024 (Virtual) CPFA Conference

    On Saturday, April 20th, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) will be hosting its annual conference virtually via Zoom. This event is free and open to everyone, but […]

    2024-04-04CPFA Journal, Events, Publications, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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  • On Seeking Broad, Systemic Change

    By John Martin, CPFA Chair Since 1998, the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) has been a leader in calling out the injustices facing part-time faculty working within California’s community college system: no job security, no […]

    2023-12-09Chair's Report, CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • The Campaign for Faculty Equality

    The newly formed Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE) seeks to correct the broken faculty system in California’s community colleges, particularly the incredibly unequal two-tier faculty structure, a decades-long problem consigned to the shadows of academia. […]

    2023-12-09CPFA Journal

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  • Building Our Future: The One-Tier Model is The Answer!

    The Campaign for Faculty Equality (CFE) is a new statewide organization that aims to work in conjunction with existing advocacy groups and to serve as a forum of strategic thinking and action among those who […]

    2023-12-09CPFA Journal

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  • Chair’s Report 2023

    A new, two-year legislative cycle in Sacramento began this year, and with it, up to a quarter of California’s Senate and Assembly were newly sworn in. New legislators are usually relatively fresh to the process […]

    2023-04-25Chair's Report, CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • CPFA Legislative Efforts

    By Daniel Thompson, CPFA Legislative Analyst This year the CPFA Legislative Task Force met with over a dozen offices of members of the California State Assembly and State Senate.  The Legislative Task Force advocated two […]

    2023-04-25CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • Pursuing a One-Tier Faculty Workplace

    The two-tier workplace, with an upper tier of tenured faculty and a lower tier of non-tenured faculty, has been the norm in U.S. higher education for half a century, long enough to have enabled several generations to become acculturated to it.  Just as it seems natural and normal for water to run downhill, no one is surprised when adjuncts are not paid the same as tenured instructors. 

    2023-04-25CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • Faculty Apartheid in Higher Education

    Nearly seventy years ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate can never be equal and struck down racial segregation in our nation’s K-12 public schools (Brown v. Board of Education). Yet in the past fifty years, higher education has instituted a separate but unequal system of faculty employment based on tenure-status. . . .

    2023-02-27CPFA Journal, e-Newsletter, Publications

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  • Chair’s Report, Fall 2022

    A Note from the Chair of CPFA Dear Readers, In the past, I have always provided my “Report” on CPFA’s efforts in the fight for part-time faculty rights in California. However, this time I feel […]

    2022-12-07Chair's Report, CPFA Journal

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