What is the WEP?
By David Milroy, CPFA Director of Administration The Windfall Elimination Provision was enacted in 1983 as part of major amendments designed to shore up the financing of the Social Security program. The reduction of the […]
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CPFA Talks to Senators Feinstein and Harris and CalRTA About Eliminating the WEP/GPO
By David Milroy, CPFA Director of Administration On Friday, June 28, 2019, members of the CPFA Executive Committee met with representatives for Senators Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris regarding the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and […]
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IMHO – Chair’s Report
Since my last update, an important bill, AB 897, was authored by Assemblymember Jose Medina (D-Riverside) to raise the 67% workload cap on part-time faculty in California’s Community Colleges System to 80-85% of a full-time […]
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The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations in California’s Higher Education
By Keith Law This article was published in the CPFA Journal, Fall 2019 edition, and originally appeared in the online media source medium.com. “The key to my success is a very simple and time-honored tradition, […]
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Why The 67% Cap Should be Raised
WHY THE 67% CAP SHOULD BE RAISED REJOINDERS TO COMMON CLAIMS AGAINST AB 897 California is the only state in the country to have a state law preventing part-time faculty from teaching more than 67% […]
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CPFA At 20 (Part II)
By Robert Yoshioka, Ph.D. >> Click here to read Part I << Too often, full-timers, union bosses, and administrators see part-time faculty as disposable, replaceable cogs in their educational juggernaut, and we are told repeatedly […]
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67% Survey
Hover your mouse over a chart to pause the slideshow. Should the 67% part-time teaching load limit be increased? Part-time or adjunct faculty in the California Community College system were originally limited to teaching 60% […]
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CPFA At 20
By Robert Yoshioka, Ph.D. Originally published in the CPFA Journal, Spring 2018 edition. Read more>> 1998 will go down as a pivotal year in the history of part time faculty working in the California Community […]
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Where Does the Money Go?: Transparent California Data Analysis
By David Milroy and members of the San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA) Originally published in the CPFA Journal, Spring 2018 edition. Read more>> As a part-time or adjunct instructor, have you ever wondered how […]
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AGAINST TENURISM by Keith Hoeller
AGAINST TENURISM appeared as a feature article in the CPFA Journal, Fall 2017 edition. Access the full journal online here. In my book Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014) (Read more […]
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Betting on the CPFA
Betting on the CPFA: A Pragmatic Solution to the “Perilous World of the Adjunct Professor” By John Martin, Chair California Part-time Faculty Association Presented May 5, 2017 PAL Conference In a December 2013 edition […]
