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Tag: contingent faculty

  • How Many Contingents Have Lost Their Jobs from the Pandemic?

    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 […]

    2021-05-17CPFA Journal

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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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  • Program for Change

    1. Elements of the VCC-VCCFA Collective Agreement that support fairness for Term Faculty – November 2020 2. Excerpt of data from the VCCFA Seniority Chart – November 2020 3. Publications containing descriptions of the employment model […]

    2020-11-05Events

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    Protecting Part-time Faculty from the Backlash of COVID-19

          Fellow Adjunct-Contingent Faculty and Allies: While we are in the early stages of this pandemic, it is abundantly clear that the COVID-19 outbreak has already created the greatest disruption in American Higher […]

    2020-03-25Academic Solidarity

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  • CPFA Annual Spring Conference April 11, 2020 – CANCELLED

    Official Notice: CPFA’s 2020 Spring Conference has been cancelled due to the emergency closure of its venue, Diablo Valley College, to protect students and faculty from potential coronavirus (COVID-19) exposure. Whether the conference will be […]

    2020-02-01Events, Statewide Symposiums and Conferences

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  • Freeway Fliers, A Documentary Film

    In December of 2014, we blogged about an upcoming documentary in the works: Freeway Fliers: A Documentary about Higher Education’s Best Kept Secret Now you can watch the full documentary film   The film, by […]

    2017-12-05Neoliberalism & Higher Education, Press Releases

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  • CPFA’S BOOK SPOTLIGHT

    Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System Paperback – May 9, 2014 by Keith Hoeller (Editor) Buy it now on Amazon “The picture of our exploitation that emerges is frightening to reflect on. This book […]

    2017-05-01Book Spotlight

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  • CPFA’S BOOK SPOTLIGHT

    The Freeway Flier and the Life of the Mind By Jean Waggoner and Douglas Snow – 2011 Author, Jean Waggoner, was the Keynote Speaker at the CPFA Annual Conference 2012   Overview. “This is a book about faculty […]

    2017-04-26Book Spotlight

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  • National Adjunct Walkout Day Action in Sacramento

    Please join part-time faculty and allies for a day of action at the state Capitol building on Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11 am. The gathering, based on an idea from California Part-Time Faculty Association […]

    2015-02-05Activism in Education

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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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  • Reflections on COCAL XI

    Thanks to the convergence of generous funding from CCCI and the support of De Anza’s VP for Instruction who finds value in the Faculty Association’s members being as up-to-date on bargaining issues as possible, I […]

    2014-12-15Commentary, Events

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  • Interview: National Adjunct Walkout Day

    by Marnie Webster | 1 November 2014 Interest has skyrocketed regarding an anonymous call to action made via Facebook on October 1st. The post states simply that “adjuncts across the country will come together” next […]

    2014-11-07Activism in Education

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  • National Adjunct Walkout Day Is Everyone’s Plan

    28 October 2014 National Adjunct Walkout Day (NAWD) is on the tip of many adjuncts’ tongues, as well it should be. Such an action is long overdue. On Twitter, FaceBook, listservs, and the new NAWD […]

    2014-10-30Activism in Education

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  • Adjunct Faculty Must Lead

    by Dennis Selder The New York Times recently ran a story that finds empirical evidence corroborating the economic struggle most working people experience:  “A Recovery, but Only for Those Who Need It Least.”  The explanation the author gives for […]

    2014-10-09Activism in Education, Leadership

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  • Why Can’t We All Work Together?

    by William Lipkin | 5 July 2014 I became active in the labor movement over 25 years ago at a time when very few people even knew what the word ‘adjunct’ referred to. I immediately […]

    2014-07-06Academic Solidarity, Commentary

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