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Category: Publications

  • ‘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

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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...

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

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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. . .

    2022-06-30e-Newsletter, Publications

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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 […]

    2022-06-13Book Spotlight, e-Newsletter

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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 […]

    2022-05-22e-Newsletter, Educational Reform, Health Benefits

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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 […]

    2022-05-06CPFA Journal

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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 […]

    2022-05-06CPFA Journal

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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 […]

    2022-05-06Chair's Report, CPFA Journal

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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 […]

    2022-05-06CPFA Journal, Publications

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  • California Retired Teachers Association Sponsors Two Bills to Protect Our STRS Pensions

    By David Milroy As a recently retired part-time instructor who got hit hard by the WEP, I joined the California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) because they are leading the charge to eliminate this horrid SSA […]

    2022-04-26e-Newsletter, Newsworthy

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  • CPFA Conference Program Highlights

    Keynote Speaker: Thomas Peele, EdSource Investigative Reporter “What I Learned While Investigating Working Conditions of CA Part-time Faculty”  Thomas Peele is a Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter. His journalism career began in 1983 at a […]

    2022-04-23e-Newsletter, Events, Newsworthy, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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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)

    2022-04-11CPFA Journal, e-Newsletter, Events, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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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 […]

    2022-03-27e-Newsletter, Health Benefits, Publications

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