by Jack Longmate At the Higher Ed Labor United (HELU) conference of July 20, 2023, a number of the non-tenure-track (NTT) speakers underscored the importance of collaboration with tenure-track (TT) faculty. Not as avidly expressed […]
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 […]
Secret lives of Bay Area part-time profs: Here’s why they work at Safeway, live out of cars An Excerpt from the Article by Ted Andersen for the SFGATE Updated 5:18 pm, Monday, February 5, 2018 A […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Governor Jerry Brown c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173 Sacramento, CA 95814 October 31, 2014 Re: What Part-time Faculty Need to Promote Student Success—Budget Request Dear Governor Brown, The California Community College System is charged with […]
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 […]
When John Venn formalized the use of Euler diagrams “as a means of representing relations of inclusion and exclusion between classes, or sets,” he may never have imagined the many uses to which it would […]
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