by CCFT | Dec 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
David Lau Deadline is approaching for an important scholarship fund available to the children of CFT members. The Raoul Telheit scholarship offers $3000 to students pursuing a 4-year course of study and $1000 to students pursuing a 2-year course of study. Selection...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Dec. 2015, Part-timers, Uncategorized
Sadie Reynolds Unemployment Filing Session Did you know that you may qualify for unemployment benefits over winter break? Because our work is contingent on enrollments and departmental need we are legally temporary, part-time workers. While you have the option of...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Budget, Dec. 2015, Negotiations
Dan Rothwell “Catastrophizing” is defined by psychologist John Grohol on the PsychCentral blogging site as “an irrational thought that something is far worse than it actually is.” Such is the case when the budget is presented to the College...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Dec. 2015, Legislation, Non-credit Courses
Maya Bendotoff “For more than one hundred and fifty years, until 2008, California was an undisputed national leader in its commitment to adult education. The state’s investment in adult learners topped $750 million, a sum greater than the combined total of every other...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Dec. 2015, Student Equity
Katie Woolsey Last year CCFT negotiated with the college to create a pilot program for funding adjunct faculty participation in shared governance. The program designated several significant campuswide bodies, such as Faculty Senate and the Student Equity and...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Dec. 2015, Part-timers, Uncategorized
Sadie Reynolds Campus Equity Week 2015: Adjunct Organizing at Cabrillo During the week of October 26th, faculty across the nation participated in Campus Equity Week, a biannual event designed to raise awareness about the national crisis of part-time academic labor in...
by CCFT | Dec 15, 2015 | Budget, Dec. 2015, President's Report
Conrad Scott-Curtis Talk about the Budget The conversation around the budget at Cabrillo is changing. Before the last two Board of Governors’ meetings, the Board engaged in budget study sessions with representatives of the District, representatives of CCFT, and...
by CCFT | Oct 28, 2015 | Contract Development, Faculty Voice, Oct. 2015 Faculty Voice, Part-timers
Karl Ewald Introduction Ultimately, I’d like to propose a strategy for thinking about steady movement toward parity by proposing an “equal raise for equal work” model as a starting point for future discussions. In order to make sense of this proposal, we need...
by CCFT | Oct 28, 2015 | Oct. 2015 Faculty Voice, Part-timers, Uncategorized
Sadie Reynolds During the week of October 26th, faculty across the nation will participate in Campus Equity Week, a biannual national event designed to raise awareness around the issue of part-time academic labor in higher education. The heavy reliance on...
by CCFT | Oct 28, 2015 | Budget, Negotiations, Oct. 2015 Faculty Voice, President's Report
Conrad Scott-Curtis Original Assumptions Projected a Deficit of $13 Million by 2018-19; New Assumptions Project a Deficit of $3 Million by the Same Year; CCFT Encouraged by New Opening in Dialogue; CCFT Request for a Review of a September Document Submitted to...
