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Miramar College Calls for a Workgroup to Promote Awareness and Support for Adjunct Pay for Ancillary Services

In Spring 2023 the Miramar Academic Senate sponsored the circulation of the “Miramar College Adjunct Check-In & Miramar 2.0 Transition Survey”.  Following a presentation of the survey results, the A.S. voted to approve the formation of an adjunct workgroup to organize and address key issues revealed in the survey data. In the Spring of 2024, […]

boyish Bob Dylan quote "Twenty years of schoolin' And they put you on the day shift. Look out kid. They keep it all hid"

SWC pseudo-moralistic apologetics mixed with statistical data

There’s an old notion from a guy named Paulo Freire about something called “Committing class suicide.” I think Adam Curtis articulates it well.  People who are the sort of the center of society at the moment . . . they would have a lot to lose from real political change because it really would change […]

demonstrators in winter clothes with signs in English and French. One reads: How will I -pay rent? -give my kid Xmas? -pay off student loan? -prep lecture?

Until October 29th, SDAFA members stream “Professor Precarious” free!

In celebration of Fair Employment Week in Canada, SADFA is sponsoring free streaming of the recent documentary In Search of Professor Precarious Oct 18-29 From October 18th to the 29th the movie will be streaming here to watch at your convenience, bring your own popcorn and invite your adjunct friends. Please let us know what […]

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Urge Governor Newsom to increase the workload cap for part-time community college faculty

Please take a moment to sign the CFT letter urging Governor Newsom to sign AB 375, which would formally increase the workload cap available to part-time faculty from 67% up to 85% of a full-time faculty workload in California’s community colleges. Under the current law, too many part-time faculty members are forced to work in […]