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.
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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...
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Why Don’t All the Contingent Professors Strike or Just Quit?
Three decades ago part-time college professors were paid at a much lower rate than their full-time, tenure-track counterparts, had artificial caps imposed on their workload limits, received few benefits. . .
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Power Despite Precarity
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education “A key organizing tool for casualized university faculty from longtime movement activists” Independent Radical Publishing Overview Higher education is the site of an ongoing conflict. At […]
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How can California improve the working conditions of community college adjuncts?
Panel says worsening circumstances call for novel solutions By Michael Burke of EdSource.org (Article republished with permission of EdSource) The second class status of part-time faculty at California’s community colleges is a decades-long problem that demands […]
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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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Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty
Health care benefits have emerged as a battleground for adjunct instructors, who are critical to the mission of California’s community colleges to educate about 1.5 million of the state’s most vulnerable students. The 72 local […]
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Adjuncts often find ladder leads to nowhere in California community colleges
PART 3 OF A THREE PART INVESTIGATION Part 1: The gig workers of California community colleges face worsening conditions Part 2: Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty Click here to read all stories […]
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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 […]
