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Tag: California Community Colleges System

  • 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

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  • 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

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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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  • California Community College Faculty Contracts

    “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” This is a list of the most recent California Community College faculty contracts (collective bargaining agreements) that can be found online. This page is periodically […]

    2022-05-21Follow the Money, Newsworthy

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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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    67% Survey

    Hover your mouse over a chart to pause the slideshow. Should the 67% part-time teaching load limit be increased? Part-time or adjunct faculty in the California Community College system were originally limited to teaching 60% […]

    2018-10-02CPFA Journal, surveys

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    Where Does the Money Go?: Transparent California Data Analysis

    By David Milroy and members of the San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association (SDAFA) Originally published in the CPFA Journal, Spring 2018 edition. Read more>> As a part-time or adjunct instructor, have you ever wondered how […]

    2018-03-28California Community Colleges, CPFA Journal, Follow the Money

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  • We Was Robbed

    Your Job Negotiated Every Day When I first started working as a part-timer, the job with its duties, working arrangements, and responsibilities felt natural. I figured people smarter and more experienced than I am had […]

    2015-11-17Commentary, Follow the Money

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  • Parity in California Community Colleges

    The fall 2015  CPFA Journal  contains a long article that explains the history of pay parity achieved by the 72 California community college districts, from 1985 to 2013 (the last year for which we have […]

    2015-10-15California Community Colleges

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  • Schadenfruede & Adjuncts

    25 February 2014 by Marnie Webster Much has been written about the working conditions of part time professors for good reason: they stink. The more we talk openly about the academy’s hypocritical two tier system, […]

    2014-03-01Academia & Class, Academic Solidarity

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  • What Happened to Inspiration from Government?

    When I was a kid, I remember the rush I got reading Johnny Tremain.  Sure, it’s a great story, but what really grabbed me at the time—made my head want to explode–were the ideas about […]

    2013-11-20Follow the Money

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