Invisible No More
Invisible No More PART-TIME FACULTY, UNPAID LABOR, AND THE PUSH FOR EQUITY AFTER ROBERTS V. LBCCD By Crystal Huckabee, Ed.D. (c) Part-time faculty are the backbone of California’s community college system. We teach the same […]
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The Metric Trap
THE METRIC TRAP HOW A 50-YEAR-OLD STRATEGY IS KILLING ACADEMIC FREEDOM By Scott Douglas, CPFA Southern Regional Representative The institution of tenure is, as ever, in the crosshairs. But the latest offensive—tying tenure to workload […]
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The Move to a One-tier System Needs Safeguards for Legacy Adjuncts
By Scott Douglas, CPFA SoCal Regional Representative The movement for a one-tier faculty system in California Community Colleges (CCC) is gaining momentum—and rightly so. Its goal is to eliminate the structural inequities between part-time and […]
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On Seeking Broad, Systemic Change
By John Martin, CPFA Chair 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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% […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]