The Part-Timer promotes the interests of part-time faculty working in the California community colleges. It contains news about the movement to establish better conditions of employment for adjunct faculty, both in California and North America.
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“When we’re attacked, we don’t fall back, we move forward,” is a phrase synonymous with AFT, and nowhere was this clearer than CFT’s legislative agenda for part-time faculty.
This year brings with it the challenges of a national administration that is, to put it mildly, anti-public education, anti-academic freedom, and anti-union.
On September 11th of 2024, Cerritos College Faculty Federation members, accompanied by CFT President Jeff Freitas and led by local president Lynn Wang, filled their Board of Trustees’ boardroom to both celebrate and call for the Cerritos Board’s approval of a new contract providing part-time faculty working over 40% of a full-time load full-time faculty equivalent healthcare.
Since the passage of the CFT resolution to Develop a strategic plan to end the two-tier system in the community colleges in March of 2022, the One-Faculty Taskforce has spent many hours of discussion and planning to establish both a notion of what a One-Faculty Model should ultimately look like and making big steps towards educating, promoting, and achieving it.
