Part-Timer Index
Fall 2021
Volume 33, Number 1
Locals negotiate vaccine stipends and retention of health benefits
CFT campaign sets sights on healthcare for part-time faculty
Governor vetoes increased workload cap bill AB 375
Borrowers denied loan forgiveness have one year to seek waiver, thanks to AFT legal victory
Spring 2021
Volume 32, Number 2
How Peralta won the first pay parity in California community colleges
Adjuncts and their unions fight on in the face of COVID
CFT seeks 85% adjunct teaching load, statewide path to pay parity
Healthcare, transferable training top adjunct priorities at CFT Convention
Fall 2020
Volume 32, Number 1
Peralta reaches 100 percent pay parity; locals win distance education support
Contingent faculty team up, pass national shared governance policy
Prop 15: It’s not just about closing corporate tax loopholes
Legislative gains and losses for adjuncts in a time of COVID
Spring 2020 – Coronavirus Issue
Volume 31, Number 2
Part-time faculty face travails of remote teaching
Adjunct faculty leaders organize to meet challenges of pandemic
Unemployment Insurance: Your COVID-19 guide to benefits
“An Army of Temps” — AFT’s call to action
Fall 2019
Volume 31, Number 1
Part-timer takes helm at State Center Federation
Archive 1999: State Senator Adam Schiff goes to the head of the class
Governor signs loan forgiveness bill, vetoes paid maternity leave
Campus Equity Week 2019
Spring 2019
Volume 30, Number 2
Delegates reaffirm support for part-time faculty participation in shared governance
AB 897: Raising the cap and reducing freeway flying
Student loan forgiveness: State legislation aims to help part-time faculty
Fall 2018
Volume 30, Number 1
Part-timers are still sticking with their union post-Janus
AFT resolution supports $7,000 per three-credit course for adjuncts
CFT resolution reiterates support for statewide health insurance for part-timers
Spring 2018
Volume 29, Number 1
Convention votes to raise part-time workload cap to 80 percent
Health benefits: The successes and challenges ahead
Membership drives in community colleges mean more adjunct power
Fall 2016
Volume 28, Number 1
FINAL PRINT ISSUE
Historic victory: New law brings reemployment rights for part-time faculty
Campus Equity Week can build adjunct-student solidarity
Falling enrollment, cancelled classes, and part-time faculty
Fall 2015-Winter 2016
Volume 27, Number 1
Do you know what to do during a campus emergency?
Part-time faculty join the union in record numbers
Will you be eligible for unemployment this summer?
Spring 2015
Volume 26, Number 2
Lessons learned: Wronged Peralta part-time instructors rehired
Paying for time but not for space: The need for a “room of one’s own” on campus
New CFT bills create minimum job security standards, strengthen the 75:25 regulation
Fall 2014
Volume 26, Number 1
Rehire rights: Long-time instructor describes pain of losing assignment, outpouring of faculty and student support
Join CFT campaign for office hours pay, full-time positions
CalSTRS offers more assistance with service credit reporting
Two new laws will benefit part-time faculty in California
Spring 2014
Volume 25, Number 2
Mark James Miller: Meet one of the hardest working organizers of part-timers
How does your pay rate compare to others?
Ancillary pay programs: New strategies for part-timer inclusion on campus
Fall 2013
Volume 25, Number 1
The fight for fair accreditation: Dedicated part-timers take on extra student responsibilities
Prop. 30 brings bounty of classes for students, part-timers
Union supports paths to full-time status for adjuncts
CFT undertakes study of part-timer compensation
Fall 2012
Volume 24, Number 1
CFT wins new law to improve CalSTRS service credit reporting for part-timers
Prop. 30 victory helps save part-time teaching jobs
Worldwide group of contingent faculty strategize in Mexico City
Spring 2012
Volume 23, Number 2
Part-Timers embrace political organizing this election year
Tips for surviving cutbacks in the community colleges
Local unions elect to offer part-timers State Disability Insurance
Fall 2011
Volume 23, Number 1
Adjunct faculty issues at the heart of Occupy movement
Joe Berry says unite now with faculty at for-profit colleges
Spring 2011
Volume 22, Number 2
When was the last time your work was evaluated?
How can we mobilize The Silent Majority?
Fall 2010
Volume 22, Number 1
Districts try to coerce adjuncts into doing work for no pay
Part-Time Committee keeps thorny overload issue alive
California legislators pass FACE as statement of intent
Spring 2010
Volume 21, Number 2
Job security continues to top adjunct concerns
Digital media instructor plugged in to students and union
Two decades of CFT lobbying for seniority rights