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Category: e-Newsletter

  • Tenured Faculty: Friend or Foe?

    by Jack Longmate At the Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) conference of July 20, 2023, a number of the non-tenure-track (NTT) speakers underscored the importance of collaboration with tenure-track (TT) faculty.  Not as avidly expressed […]

    2023-09-08e-Newsletter, Publications

     
  • Life as a Contingent Faculty Member

    By Carolyn Kuimelis and Mary Ellen Flannery Republished with permission of the National Education Association (NEA). Originally published 05/23/2023 at NEA Today. The higher education system depends on the labor of adjuncts, yet these faculty remain […]

    2023-05-29e-Newsletter

     
  • How to negotiate with the State of California

    You are a part-timer.  As one of approximately forty-thousand teachers employed across California community colleges, your labor is being used to subsidize the salaries of not just full-time faculty but a hierarchy of administrators who use us as a cash cow.  If you’re okay with that—with the guy in the classroom right next to yours making double for teaching a different section of the same class—or if you find yourself relatively free of financial stress or job insecurity, then read no further.  If, on the other hand, you agree there is a problem, then read on!

    2023-02-27e-Newsletter

     
  • 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

     
  • Assemblymember Medina Recognized for Exceptional Leadership and Dedication to Social Justice

    When CPFA held its annual conference on May 7, 2022, Assemblymember Jose Medina of Riverside was recognized for his unwavering support for the thousands of part-time faculty employed by the California Community Colleges System across […]

    2022-11-29e-Newsletter, Leadership

     
  • Pandemic impact continues at Cal State with fall 2022 enrollment decline

    Decrease largely due to record losses in transfers from the community colleges By ASHLEY A. SMITH of EdSourceOriginal published on November 23, 2022 Undergraduate enrollment in California State Universities continues to suffer from a pandemic-induced drop as fewer transfer students […]

    2022-11-29Academia & Class, e-Newsletter

     
  • Don’t Forget Kashara Moore

    By Kristie Iwamoto CPFA Northern Regional Representative Long Beach City College part-time union President Dr. Kashara Moore was fired for allegedly “elbowing” a student after the student took issue with her name being mispronounced during […]

    2022-10-26California Community Colleges, e-Newsletter, Newsworthy

     
  • Adjuncts sue California community college system, eight local districts over unpaid work hours

    ‘It’s been a long time brewing,’ one of the plaintiffs said over the suit which alleges violations of state law. By Thomas Peele an Investigative Reporter at EdSourceReposted with Permission of EdSource Seven part-time community college […]

    2022-10-26California Community Colleges, e-Newsletter, Newsworthy, Teachers' Rights

     
  • LBCC professor may lose her job after alleged elbowing incident at commencement

    A well-respected Long Beach City College professor could be facing termination Wednesday after an incident during this year’s commencement where a student alleged the professor intentionally elbowed her after a discussion about how to pronounce the student’s name. . .

    2022-09-27e-Newsletter, Newsworthy

     
  • Newsom rejects second effort to make more community college adjunct faculty eligible for health care

    For the second consecutive year, Gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected a bill that would have made more community college part-time professors . . .

    2022-09-27e-Newsletter, Legislation

     
  • AU Reaches Agreement With Staff Union After Weeklong Strike

    American University reached a tentative contract agreement with the union representing academic, clerical and technical staff on Friday, the culmination of nearly a year and a half of bargaining. The deal came after a weeklong strike held during student move-in week.

    2022-08-30Activism in Education, e-Newsletter

     
  • ‘We are not invisible anymore:’ Brookdale, adjuncts settle union fight

    Brookdale Community College reached a deal with its part-time faculty that gives the educators the higher pay they demanded while also fulfilling what students have said is a key need: More face time with their professors.

    2022-08-30Activism in Education, e-Newsletter, Newsworthy

     
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    Sacramento community colleges cut classes to catch up with steep enrollment drop

    By Dante MotleyOriginally publishedJuly 25, 2022SacBee Los Rios Community College District is cutting planned classes for the fall as it aligns its offering with the steep drop in enrollment that unfolded during the coronavirus pandemic. […]

    2022-07-29California Community Colleges, e-Newsletter, Publications

     
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    Support For AB 1856: Workload Cap Increase

    Letter to Assembly Member Medina expressing CPFA's endorsement of AB 1856, which would raise the workload cap on part-time faculty to up to 85% of a full time equivalent.

    2022-07-28e-Newsletter, Legislation, Letters to the Capitol

     
  • Parity Pay or Equal Pay?

    “Pay parity” is a term perennially associated with part-time faculty in a two-tiered workplace, not part-time workers in other professions paid on the same basis as full-time workers, such as part-time engineers, physicians, retail cashiers, or K-12 teachers. The “parity pay” bill, AB-1752...

    2022-06-30e-Newsletter, Educational Reform, Publications

     

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