CPFA News & Forum
We’ve curated a variety of original news stories and analyses for your perusing, which focus on education in California, part-time faculty and/or unions in academia that have broad national appeal. As might be expected, we take special interest in social justice issues that slip under the radar of the mainstream media. Submit Content to the CPFA Blog and add your voice to the growing chorus calling for equity for part-time faculty in higher education.
LIVE-BLOG CCSF Forum – Nov 7, 2013
Rich Hansen (FHDA) , Ron Galatolo (SMCCD), Jackie Spears, Anna Eshoo, jim Beal (all legislators) , Rafael Mandelman (CCSF trustee from the dissolved board of trustees), Josh Pechtault (CFT), Ron Gerhard (CCSF admin), Assemblyman Tom Ammiato, Local 2121 President Alissa Messer, and others are gathered to discuss CCSF issues in ...
Finally Getting to See a Doctor?
Tuesday this upcoming week is a big day for my eyesight, my aching elbow, my colon—the colonoscopy may now be just around the corner, oh joy!—and maybe even my left front tooth, which could use a fix on the bad ceramic job performed fifteen years ago. The California Health Exchange ...
CPFA Announces New Blog
Sacramento, CA. The CPFA Executive Council announces the launch of a new blog, CPFA Forum Blog, which will attempt to keep up with the rapid cycling of Part-time faculty news and perspectives developing in the state. Links to relevant news, independent legislative analysis, national coverage of adjuncts, narratives and personal ...
Across-the-Board Raises
Sound great, right? What could be fairer, you say, than the “same” raise for everyone? When your union announces an across the board raise, even a substantial one, like 4 or 5%, hold on to your hats. This is not a cause for celebration! Across the board raises actually worsen ...
The Shootings at Santa Monica in June (2013)
The Shootings at Santa Monica (June 7, 2013) By Martin M. Goldstein It could have been worse – much, much worse. A man clearly out of his mind, who had already killed four people, entered our Library crowded with students studying for Final Exams, and was about to open fire ...
CPFA Watch Position Statement for AB 950
Assembly Member Ed Chau P.O. Box 942849, Room 6011
Sacramento, CA 94249-0049
(916) 319-2049 RE: CPFA “Watch” Position Statement for AB-950 Dear Assemblymember Chau, The CPFA Executive Committee has voted to take a “Watch” position on the CFT sponsored legislation AB-950 for the following reasons: Overloads, per se, are ...
Sacramento, CA 94249-0049
(916) 319-2049 RE: CPFA “Watch” Position Statement for AB-950 Dear Assemblymember Chau, The CPFA Executive Committee has voted to take a “Watch” position on the CFT sponsored legislation AB-950 for the following reasons: Overloads, per se, are ...
Letter to the Media RE: Student Success Task Force Report
Dear Members of the Media, As a provision of AB1143 (Liu), the Chancellor’s Office called on the California Community Colleges Board of Governors (BOG) to convene a Student Success Task Force charged with “developing a plan to bring about significant improvements in success rates of our students.” Enclosed please find ...
CPFA’s Unpacks The Student Success Task Force Report
The California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) supports the responses of the various other faculty organizations in regards to the provisions of the Student Success Task Force. As part-time faculty teach almost 50% of all courses and comprise over 45,000 faculty in the Community College system it is important that our ...
Letter to Support AB 852, Part-time Faculty Rehire Rights
To: Senator Alan Lowenthal
Chair, Senate Education Committee
Room 2083, State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: AB 852 — SUPPORT Rehire Rights for Part-time Faculty Dear Honorable Alan Lowenthal, My name is John Martin and I am the Chair of the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA), the only non-union institution in ...
Chair, Senate Education Committee
Room 2083, State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814 Re: AB 852 — SUPPORT Rehire Rights for Part-time Faculty Dear Honorable Alan Lowenthal, My name is John Martin and I am the Chair of the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA), the only non-union institution in ...
