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Tell California’s elected leaders – Invest in community colleges
California’s community colleges are critical to our students’ and our communities’ recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, without immediate action from Sacramento, most of our colleges are facing dire fiscal crises, threatening jobs and undermining our ability to meet the needs of our students and our communities.
Send a letter to California’s elected leaders: Time to invest in our community colleges!
Healthcare, transferable training top adjunct priorities at CFT Convention
Delegates resolve to address timely adjunct issues
At this year’s virtual CFT Convention held March 26-27, the Part-Time Faculty Committee sponsored two resolutions reflective of both the longstanding and new problems beginning to emerge in the wake of the pandemic which has impacted adjunct health and training.
Adjuncts at the table to win a New Deal for Higher Education
National campaign calls for sea change in higher ed
While the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified longstanding societal inequities in America, public higher education was already in a state of crisis, from the staggering costs of college, to the lack of access and support for lower income students, Black, indigenous, and people of color, the deteriorating, or clear lack of infrastructure, the reciprocal increase in highly paid administrative positions, and last but not least, decrease in full-time tenure track positions.
Jeff Freitas reelected CFT President, Luukia Smith Secretary Treasurer
Union Election Results
Results of the CFT officer elections were announced on May 1 after mail ballots were tabulated. The biennial election was held by mail due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a Virtual Convention. All newly elected leaders will take office on May 26, 2021.
President
Jeffery Freitas
Secretary Treasurer
Luukia Smith
CFT introduces significant bills in the new legislative session
Legislative Update
The CFT is sponsoring or co-sponsoring numerous bills in the new legislative session. You can find them below with links to the bill language.
MOVING BILLS
Community college part-time faculty reemployment
Assembly Bill 375 (Medina, D, Riverside)
requires that negotiation on reemployment preference for
part-time, temporary faculty assignments be based on the minimum
standards not exceeding 80% to 85% of a full-time equivalent
load, and would prohibit the community college district from
restricting the terms of the negotiated agreement to less than
that range, unless explicitly agreed upon by an individual
part-time, temporary faculty member and the
district. Sponsor
State of the Union
CFT Virtual Convention 2021
By CFT President Jeffery Freitas
Good morning, CFT. I’m thrilled to be here with all of you—my fellow CFT leaders, all my union siblings, CFT and local union staff, and invited guests.