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Vol. XXIII, No. I

CPFA E-JOURNAL, SPRING 2021

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By Carol Whaley

The Transition to Online Teaching in the Age of Covid-19

Earlier this year, CPFA conducted a survey of part-time faculty in the California Community College system to assess how the transition to online teaching has been handled during the Covid-19 pandemic. We received 48 responses from part-time faculty in 26 different districts from across the state. When the pandemic hit in Spring 2020, the entire world of education was rocked...Read More!

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By P. D. Lesko

Some People in Higher Ed Are Delighted Adjuncts are Losing Their Jobs

For many years, I have made myself unpopular among higher education union leaders for pointing out blatantly unequal union representation of their adjunct faculty members. When a union that represents full-time and part-time faculty bargains a contract that allows full-time faculty members to take away courses assigned to their part-time faculty union members and call it "overload," that's unequal representation...Read More!

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Chair's Report by John Martin

I am sure I am not alone in feeling that the early events of the new year seem to have revealed that we are living in a different world! There was the mob violence at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 6th, Biden being sworn into office on the 20th and multiple vaccines suddenly being available for nearly all adults to get. For better or for worse, we certainly appear to be living in a starkly altered reality from the one we were in just 12 months ago... Read more!

How Many Contingents Have Lost Their Jobs from the Pandemic?

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 every other question involving contingent faculty. No one knows. Since we don't count to either administrators or union leaders, we are not counted... Read more!

A New Parity Bill Hits the California Legislature

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 Teacher’s Association...
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Update from Washington State - A Fight for PTers

A bill in the Washington state legislature that Keith Hoeller and I have been opposing, E2SSB 5194, proposes the creation of 200 new full-time positions (it initially proposed 1,000) in the 34 Washington State community and technical colleges...
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