by CCFT | Nov 26, 2016 | Elections, November 2016 Faculty Voice, Struggle in the Courts
by David LauSo Much Trouble in the WorldMuch ink has spilled over the “shock” of Donald Trump’s election victory. How could it be that a country undergoing a demographic transformation, full of “enlightened” professionals, a country that had just elected and then...
by CCFT | Oct 16, 2016 | Elections, Oct. 2016 Faculty Voice, Struggle in the Courts
by David Lau ACCJC Back On Campus at CCSF Stuck in an interminable accreditation crisis, City College of San Francisco faces yet another battle with ACCJC that could result in revocation and College closure. Monday October 10, the rogue commission was back on campus....
by CCFT | Sep 10, 2016 | September 2016 faculty voice, Struggle in the Courts
David Lau Vergara v. CTA Is Over Back in April, a California Appeals Court overturned the Vergara decision from 2014, in which a lower court had fundamentally thrown out the tenure protections of the K-12 Public Education system in the state. Now this past summer, the...
by CCFT | May 5, 2016 | Accreditation, May 2016, Struggle in the Courts
by David Lau, CCFT Communications Director ACCJC on Life Support ACCJC, the troubled accreditor of Cabrillo College and the entire California Community College system, faced a difficult few weeks in March. A majority of California Community College Presidents voted...
by CCFT | Mar 9, 2016 | Elections, Legislation, March 2016 Faculty Voice, Struggle in the Courts
David Lau CCFT Flex Week Events CCFT flex week events saw sizable turnout this January. Things kicked off the day after Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with Tuesday’s part-timer luncheon and its some fifty attendees. The CCFT luncheon saw a terrific turnout on a...
by CCFT | Sep 18, 2015 | Faculty Voice, Oct. 2015 Faculty Voice, Struggle in the Courts
David Lau A new court case sits before the ideologically conservative Roberts Court, one that may define the future of the public sector unions. Friedrichs v. CTA could overturn the precedent-setting case Abood v. Detroit School Board, which upheld the union shop in...
