Hello FACCCtivists, Your advocacy is needed. Please respond to this call for action and forward this email to your networks. FACCC-sponsored AB 310 (Medina), which would require the provision of paid part-time faculty office hours to be reported on local community college districts’ websites, is currently sitting in the suspense file of the Senate […]
Open Letter to SDCCD Faculty
[SDAFA response to discussion on the SDCCD district email list] Fellow faculty members, We’ve had quite a beginning to this conversation about our next contract. Unfortunately, some have suggested that adjuncts don’t have enough “skin in the game” and a divisive tone has emerged that pits adjuncts against full-time faculty. There is a […]
SDAFA Statement on Janus
SDAFA wholeheartedly supports the democratic process and true union spirit of all of the community college unions of San Diego county which include the AFT Guild 1931, the Mira Costa College Academic Associate Faculty, the Palomar Faculty Federation, and the Southwestern College Education Association. Two years ago, SDAFA discussed the potential impact of the Friedrichs vs […]
Advocacy Needed on Part-Time Faculty Measures on Office Hours and Parental Leave
This is from the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC) FACCC-sponsored AB 310 (Medina) and FACCC co-sponsored AB 2012 (Medina) will both be heard in the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 25. AB 310 would require community college districts to post the provision of paid part-time faculty office hours on their websites while AB […]
research survey and good bibliography
Please take a few moments to help Steve with his dissertation, and check out his first chapter for a great recent bibliography of sources on adjuncts: I am pursuing a PhD in education at Northcentral University in San Diego. I received my AA at Pasadena Community College, and my masters at CSUN. I am collecting […]
Democratize the Bargaining Committee
SDAFA presented the following resolution at the AFT Guid Meeting on October 5, 2017: Resolution to Adjust the AFT Guild Bargaining Committee for the SDCCD Faculty CBA to Be More Representative of and Open to the Membership Whereas the motto of the AFT Guild is “An Open, Active, Vital, Membership-Driven Organization”; Whereas of the approximately […]