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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Moving up the ladder means dealing with endless bureaucracy. For many, it’s not worth it. By Paula Rabinowitz. Republished with permission from The Chronicle. “Sustained rejection of a total institution often requires sustained orientation to its […]
By Keith Hoeller How many contingent professors have lost their jobs or had their teaching loads reduced since the COVID-19 pandemic started more than a year ago? This question has the same answer as nearly […]
By Jack Longmate A bill in the Washington state legislature that Keith Hoeller and I have been opposing, E2SSB 5194, proposes the creation of 200 new full-time positions (it initially proposed 1,000) in the 34 […]
By P. D. Lesko This article was previously published on December 2, 2020 at AdjunctNation.com For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out blatantly unequal union representation […]
By Carol Whaley Earlier this year, CPFA conducted a survey of part-time faculty in the California Community College system to assess how the transition to online teaching has been handled during the Covid-19 pandemic. We […]
By John Martin, CPFA Chair I am sure I am not alone in feeling that the early events of the new year seem to have revealed that we are living in a different world! There […]
By Carol Whaley A.B. 1269 (C. Garcia) seeks to create parity for part-time faculty of the California Community Colleges so that equal work results in equal pay. This bill is sponsored by CTA, the California […]