Chair’s Report Fall 2020
The year 2020 has been a rollercoaster ride, not least of all for those of us who teach at one or more community colleges in California. Like most educators, we’ve had to modify or completely […]
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Part-Time Faculty
By David Milroy, Carol Whaley, and Alexis Moore The California Part-Time Faculty Association (CPFA) sent out a survey to part-time faculty all over the state and the responses are even more alarming than one might […]
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Why Adjuncts Deserve Unemployment Compensation and How They Can Get It
By Keith Hoeller Why are teachers the only professionals routinely denied unemployment when they are not working? Though our nation’s unemployment system was established in 1935 by the Social Security Act, not until 1970 did […]
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Adjunct / Part-Time / Contingent: Changing Our Name Doesn’t Change Our Working Conditions
By Bobbi-Lee Smart, Ed.D. My dissertation research on the “Involuntary Adjunct” focused on the perceptions of the impact of adjuncts on community college campuses in Southern California. I specifically wanted to understand the reality of […]
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Butte College To Hold Its 10th Annual PT Conference
Next month, on April 4th, 2020 Butte College will be hosting the 10th annual Associate Faculty Conference. This year’s theme is “Acknowledging and Affirming the value of Associate Faculty.” This year’s keynote speaker is Dr. […]
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Full Time Faculty Member Testifies on AB 897
BY WENDY BRILL-WYNKOOP Good afternoon – Chair and members of the Assembly Higher Education Committee. I am Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, the Department Chair of Photography at College of the Canyons. I am the only full-time faculty […]
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Resolution : Foothill – De Anza Faculty Association Supports Assembly Bill 897
Whereas, existing California law (Assembly Bill 951, 2008) establishes that the contingent, part-time faculty workload is capped at 67 percent, amounting to no more than 10 units in the quarter system or 6 in the […]
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The Role of the Teachers’ Union in Enrollment Management
BY RICK BAUM Teachers need to be organized in unions to protect their jobs and standard of living. Unfortunately, union leadership is too frequently dominated by full-timers who disregard the needs and interests of part-timers. At […]
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When Part-Timers Have to Absorb Class Cuts
BY RICK BAUM For the Fall 2019 term, the administration at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) made drastic class cuts to address a claimed deficit of as much as $50 million. There were […]
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67% Cap Needs to be Raised to 80-85%
BY SCOTT DOUGLAS In 2007, the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) worked with Assembly member Mervyn Dymally to get the part-time cap raised from 60% to 67%.Today, CFT, the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges […]
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CPFA Part-time Faculty Retirement Survey 2019 By David Milroy In the spring 2019 issue, CPFA posted a survey concerning part-time faculty and their knowledge of and plans for retirement. The survey consisted of 10 questions […]
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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, […]