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Tag: contingent faculty treatment of

  • 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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  • Adjunct / Part-Time / Contingent: Changing Our Name Doesn’t Change Our Working Conditions

    By Bobbi-Lee Smart, Ed.D. My dissertation research on the “Involuntary Adjunct” focused on the perceptions of the impact of adjuncts on community college campuses in Southern California. I specifically wanted to understand the reality of […]

    2020-11-17CPFA Journal

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    Highlights from the 2019 CPFA Conference

        The Exploitation of Part-Time Professors It’s a well-known secret that public higher education in California and across the country is increasingly built on the backs of a large army of underpaid, exploited part-time […]

    2019-05-31Events, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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  • ACTION NEEDED: Due Process Bill in Jeopardy!

    Colleagues! We need you to send emails to state Senators ASAP telling them to support CCCI’s-sponsored bill AB 1651, authored by Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes. The bill will be voted on by the full Senate […]

    2017-08-18Activism in Education, Letters to the Capitol, Newsworthy

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  • Freeway Fliers Documentary Being Made

    Freeway Fliers: A Documentary about Higher Education’s Best Kept Secret is an upcoming film by Brad Rettele, Professor X and Professor Y, the latter two being anonymous adjuncts involved in the project. The film promises […]

    2014-12-17Newsworthy

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  • Maslow a la Adjunct

    by Marnie Webster   Twitter: @minimuswebster

    2014-04-11Academia & Class, Public Disinvestment in Education

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  • What?

    by Dennis Selder On February 6th, the PBS Newshour, ran a show “Is academia suffering from ‘adjunctivitis’? Low-paid adjunct professors struggle to make ends meet.”   In it are the familiar cast of characters—the full-timer who […]

    2014-02-08Commentary, Follow the Money, Neoliberalism & Higher Education

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  • Lessons from the Death of a Part-Time Faculty Member

    After listening to educators’ responses to the account of  Margaret Mary Vojtko’s life as a destitute contingent faculty member at Duquesne University, I find myself both saddened and angered.  The anger comes from the reaction […]

    2013-11-09Follow the Money

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