The SDAFA Players performed a theater piece on the plight of adjuncts at City College and Mesa College as part of Campus Equity Week, October 22 and 23, 2019. The piece was originally performed at Palomar college for the last Campus Equity Week in 2017. It is sad to see how relevant the themes are […]
SDCCD CBA: We did it!
Jim Mahler released his tentative Contract Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), and it’s an overall win for adjuncts! No more Chairs and Deans trying to scare us out of applying for job security (PoA); automatic Our PoA wait-time goes down from 8 semesters back to 6 The ability to […]
Adjunct Debt Relief
From Jim Mahler: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to request that you take a few minutes to write a letter of support for Assembly Bill 463 – the CFT-sponsored community college part-time faculty student debt bill. The bill is currently on the governor’s desk. We need as many letters as possible to encourage the governor to […]
You are not the only one with student debt
https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/members-of-congress-are-rich-with-student-debt
“You must find the courage to leave the table where respect is no longer being served.” – Tene Edwards
An open letter to San Diego community colleges: I write these words with an eye toward Southwestern Community College because I have the most experience with that institution. I know, or have been told, of similar problems throughout the county and beyond. These compounded problems have pushed me to leave the community college system and […]
Farewell, Mesa
Editor’s note: The Farewell Letter has become one of the most prevalent genres in 21st Century adjunct literature. The example below contains some of the more common tropes of peripeteia, precarity, and eschatology. We hope it also serves as both a cautionary tale to watch the clock, and as a rallying cry to continue the […]