by Leonardo Rodriguez January 20, 2020 In a shocking development on this case, first reported by SDAFA on January 26, 2018 (https://www.sdafa.org/city-language-adjuncts/), on January 13, 2020, the Department of Justice issued a “right to sue” letter to Adjunct Spanish Professor Salvador Gonzalez, one of four adjunct professors in the Languages Department who, over the […]
The Adjunct Voice
Winter is coming…
Dr. Carroll, Vice Chancellors Dowd, Surbrook, and Bulger, There is much concern among part-time faculty over the email we received on Monday informing us that we will not be receiving our first pay warrant of the semester until March 10. Please see the emails below between myself and others and members of the AFT Guild […]
Jan 11, 2020 Hiring Event – This is BIG!
Southwestern College will be hiring over 20 full-time tenure-track faculty to begin assignments Fall 2020. Join us for the Faculty Hiring Summit where you can learn about our process and have all of your questions answered as well. Click on this link or if it does not work, go directly to the one for the […]
Invisible Faculty
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 […]