We acknowledge and honor our educators who cultivate and shape our academic community. Their stories inform and inspire, illustrating diverse pathways that led to our campus and beyond. In collecting these stories, we seek to learn with and from those who devote so...
Essay by Matt Escover The only way to correct injustice in pay and working conditions is for all faculty to work together to educate, change attitudes and conditions about the rights, duties, and role of adjunct faculty. I’ve been a member of the migrant part time...
This series of three short videos was produced by Karl Ewald, CCFT Chief Negotiator, and the CCFT negotiation team in response to member’s interest in our compensation agreement for the 2019-22...
by Katie Woolsey CCFT adjunct committee will hold an unemployment filling workshop from 10-noon on Tuesday, May 29th, in room 312. California state law guarantees all part-time, temporary faculty the right to file for unemployment benefits during a...
by John Govsky The CFT, at its 2018 convention, passed a resolution stating that the CFT will work to change the California Education Code to raise the current cap on how much a part-timer can teach in a single community college district. The law currently sets the...
by David Lau There is an intensity and vehemence of purpose in the voice of Julie Olsen Edwards. The daughter of two leftists—Tillie Olsen, the journalist and legend of the short story, was her mother; her father Jack Olsen, a warehouse worker and organizer for the...
