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Tag: part-time faculty

  • CPFA Sponsors AB 2277: Raising the Part-Time Faculty Workload Cap

    AB 2277 will increase the maximum number of instructional hours that a part-time California Community College faculty member may teach at any one community college district and allow students to build stronger relationships with existing […]

    2024-02-28e-Newsletter, Educational Reform

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  • On Seeking Broad, Systemic Change

    Since 1998, the California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) has been a leader in calling out the injustices facing part-time faculty working within California’s community college system: no job security, no due process, scant seniority rights, […]

    2023-12-09Chair's Report, CPFA Journal, Publications

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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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  • A New Parity Bill Hits the California Legislature

    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 […]

    2021-05-17CPFA Journal, Legislation

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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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    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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  • CPFA Co-Sponsors Part-time Faculty Teaching Load Bill

    PRESS RELEASE The California Part Time Faculty Association (CPFA) announces that it will be co-sponsoring the new “Part-time Faculty Teaching Load” bill, AB 897 along with the California Federation of Teachers (CFT). Introduced to state legislators […]

    2019-03-18Legislation, Newsworthy, Press Releases

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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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  • 80% Workload for Part-Time Faculty: NEW CFT Resolution

    Report (with some personal commentary) on The CFT 80% Resolution By John Govsky, Co-Chair CFT Part-Time Faculty Committee  The California Federation of Teachers (CFT), at its 2018 convention, passed a resolution stating that the CFT […]

    2018-03-28California Community Colleges, Educational Reform, Newsworthy

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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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  • Why Overloads Are a Bad Deal for All Faculty

    BY JEFF BAKER (Re-posted with permission of the author) Originally published July 27, 2016, ACADEME BLOG, The blog of Academe magazine The word overload can have more than one meaning to higher education faculty. It can mean […]

    2017-09-13Academic Solidarity

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  • The Academic Labor System of Faculty Apartheid

    This excerpt has been posted on the CPFA website with the express permission of its author.     CPFA’s Must-Read Book Spotlight. Buy the book on Amazon.  Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System by […]

    2017-05-21Book Spotlight

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  • CPFA Thanks Assembly Member Jose Medina

      On Wednesday, April 26th, CPFA Chair, John Martin, presented Assembly Member Medina with a Certificate of Appreciation on behalf of all California’s part-time faculty in the California Community Colleges System (CCC System) and thanked him […]

    2017-04-27Newsworthy, Press Releases

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  • SB 1379 and Job Security for Part-time Faculty

    The Honorable Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 Phone: (916) 445-2841   September 8, 2016 Re: SB 1379 and Job Security for Part-time Faculty Dear Governor Brown: As Chair of […]

    2016-09-08Letters to the Capitol

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