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 […]
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Should Contingents Support More Tenure-Track Jobs?
By Jack Longmate When hearing about proposals to fund new tenure-track jobs, adjuncts might think to themselves: “If I could only get a tenure-track job, I could say ‘Good riddance’ to this dead-end adjunct gig […]
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Sue Broxholm Interview
AFT 1493 FACULTY FOCUS Sue Broxholm, Skyline Math Professor, advocates for the end of the “Two-Tier system” that divides full-time and part-time faculty Interview by Marianne Kaletzky, AFT 1493 Executive Secretary Sue Broxholm has been […]
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Part-time Faculty Face Indignities
By Rick Baum, Member of AFT 2121 and CPFA I wrote the letter that is below to the leadership of AFT1512 and to the California Federation of Teachers President Jeff Freitas as a response to […]
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Equal Pay for Equal Work
by Eric Kaljumägi, CCA President CCA/CTA Co-sponsored Legislation AB 1752 (Santiago) For too long, Long Beach City College (LBCC) and other community colleges throughout the state have unfairly and unlawfully exploited part-time faculty. This exploitation […]
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Raising the Cap on Part-time Faculty Employment
By Sandy Baringer Assemblyman Jose Medina (D-Riverside) has introduced a third bill, AB1856, to raise the cap on part-time faculty employment in the community colleges from 67% to 85%. The first attempt, AB897, passed the […]
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Chair’s Report (2022)
By John Martin, Chair of CPFA Last year, community college part-time faculty activists and their allies were outraged when the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee killed AB-1269 and then again when Governor Newsome vetoed AB-375. These two […]
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News from SDAFA
by Carlynne Allbee The San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA), mission is “Adjuncts Helping Adjuncts.” One tool is organizing professional development presentations to provide information that part-timers need to know to make the most of […]
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Legislative Steps for the Future, CPFA Conference 2022
“Legislative Steps for the Future” 2022 Annual Conference - Virtual Saturday, May 7, 2022 @9:30AM Register Now! (Free Registration required)
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The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditions
Academic gig workers. Freeway flyers. The Uber drivers of academia. Call the part-time instructors who make up two-thirds of classroom teachers in the country’s largest higher-education system what you will. What matters most to them […]
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How Many Contingents Have Lost Their Jobs from the Pandemic?
By Keith Hoeller How many contingent professors have lost their jobs or had their teaching loads reduced since the COVID-19 pandemic started more than a year ago? This question has the same answer as nearly […]
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Update from Washington State – A Fight for Part-timers
By Jack Longmate A bill in the Washington state legislature that Keith Hoeller and I have been opposing, E2SSB 5194, proposes the creation of 200 new full-time positions (it initially proposed 1,000) in the 34 […]
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Some People in Higher Ed Are Delighted Adjuncts are Losing Their Jobs
By P. D. Lesko This article was previously published on December 2, 2020 at AdjunctNation.com For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out blatantly unequal union representation […]
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The Transition to Online Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
By Carol Whaley Earlier this year, CPFA conducted a survey of part-time faculty in the California Community College system to assess how the transition to online teaching has been handled during the Covid-19 pandemic. We […]
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Chair’s Report
By John Martin, CPFA Chair I am sure I am not alone in feeling that the early events of the new year seem to have revealed that we are living in a different world! There […]