by CCFT | Nov 25, 2016 | November 2016 Faculty Voice, Student Equity
by Marilyn Zanetti-Chavez CARE (Cooperative Agencies and Resources for Education) is a program offered through EOPS (Extended Opportunities Programs and Services) for single parents who are receiving CalWORKs and who meet other eligibility criteria. The primary goal...
by CCFT | Nov 25, 2016 | Negotiations, November 2016 Faculty Voice, President's Report
by Karl Ewald For me, the tail end of any process is usually paired with a healthy dose of reflection. As the negotiations process drew to a close, I spent a lot of time thinking about the processes we use to make decisions. The core of our process involves voting and...
by CCFT | Nov 25, 2016 | Elections, November 2016 Faculty Voice
Tobin W. Keller & Sadie Reynolds While the shocking presidential election results have sent the world into a tailspin, California’s statewide elections handed us several victories, among them the passage of Prop 55. On October 19, CCFT held a YES on Prop 55 rally...
by CCFT | Oct 16, 2016 | Legislation, Oct. 2016 Faculty Voice, Part-timers
by David Lau Assembly Bills Give Adjuncts Right to Negotiate New Protections Governor Brown has signed two bills, AB 1690 and 1379. Together they will give adjunct instructors new rights to negotiate seniority, including mandating workloads between 60%-67%. Adjunct...
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 | Oct 16, 2016 | Contract Development, Negotiations, Oct. 2016 Faculty Voice
CCFT and the District remain in negotiations regarding salary and have agreed to extend the current Contract Agreement through December 15, 2016. As mentioned in the September update, CCFT and the District have already settled on most items (see below); the...
by CCFT | Oct 16, 2016 | Elections, Oct. 2016 Faculty Voice, President's Report
by Karl Ewald I don’t think I’ve ever felt a semester move by so quickly. I suppose in saying that I should emphasize that I mean this in a positive sense! I attribute much of this to the many facets of my new role in CCFT. Each day reveals another aspect of the...
by CCFT | Oct 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
YES on Proposition 55 Rally! Join the CCFT on Wednesday, October 19, from 11am-12:30 pm, in the upper quad, below the 100 building, for a lively YES on Prop. 55 rally. With support from the Cabrillo College Student Senate and other student clubs as well as educators...
by CCFT | Sep 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
Tobin W. Keller As the newly nominated Full-Time Vice President of the CCFT I felt an urgency to learn as much as I could about our faculty union and teachers unions in general. So I decided to attend the CFT Summer School, June 20–24 at the Kellogg West Conference...
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...
