For years, I have been sharing with my fellow Adjuncts a tip my tax preparer taught me long ago. When we travel from school to school on the same day, as freeway flyers, this mileage has been a deduction as a Business Expense, if you itemized deductions. Under President Trump’s Tax Reform, this deduction, among […]
Update on teaching after retiring from STRS
Remember when “some” of us retired from STRS but still intended to keep on teaching? We found out in SDAFA sponsored workshops that STRS allowed it. For those of us working at SDCCD, we reminded anyone wanting to do it that they had to write all over the District form “Will continue teaching”???? The District […]
The Guardian reports on desperate measures by Adjuncts
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2018/nov/27/professors-are-selling-their-plasma-to-pay-bills-lets-hold-colleges-feet-to-the-fire Professors are selling their plasma to pay bills. Let’s hold colleges’ feet to the fire If you like your coffee fair trade, why not your children’s school ‘fair labor’? Here’s a simple but effective proposal A 2015 survey by Pacific Standard found that 62% of adjuncts made less than $20,000 a year. Illustration: Rosie […]
Adjunct Project Reveals Wide Range in Pay
The Chronical of Higher Education published a study “Adjunct Project Reveals Wide Range in Pay” Thanks to the Facebook page, Con Job: Stories of Adjunct and Contingent Faculty, I found out about it and am sharing it here: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Adjunct-Project-Shows-Wide/136439?fbclid=IwAR3ilezoGJYfAzuqgWGkhm2ucljTNV_KAWbv2GQAKwiB1g6n3JH9Vxew3nY
WEP / GPO and Senator Feinstein
I had written Senator Feinstein about WEP and specificlaly how hard it was on Adjuncts when are pensions are much smaller than our full time counterparts. This is her reply to me: U S Senator Dianne Feinstein responding to your message Nov 19 2018 Dear Ms. Allbee : Thank you for writing to me to […]
SDCCD Salary Schedule Increases for 2019
AFT Guild President Jim Mahler today sent out the announcement below regarding economic issues for next year along with the attached salary schedules. Of note is that Adjunct Faculty will receive 0.84% increases and Contract Faculty will receive 0.50% increases. That’s right, folks, 4/5’s of a percent for Adjuncts and 1/2 of a percent for Contract. […]