SDAFA | Adjuncts Helping Adjuncts
We hope you will be able to join us at our next SDAFA meeting to be held: Friday, September 13 from 12 noon to 3:00 pm (Light lunch included!) San Diego City College in room MS-123. Lunch will be served at 12 noon with the discussion and program following immediately after. SDAFA will be holding an open discussion of part-time faculty issues in the Academic […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Flex event 559 (2)(6) Adjuncts: Plan for the future now! Wednesday 08/14/19 03:30 pm – 05:30 pm (2.00 HRS) On-Campus at Mesa G-101 Presenters: • Carlynne Allbee Adjuncts and their plans for the future (it will eventually arrive) To help Adjuncts understand what possibilities exist in their future including: STRS – Should we leave it […]
DeVos sued over student loan forgiveness program that denies 99 percent of applicants By Michael Stratford,Politico July 11, 2019 https://www.yahoo.com/news/devos-sued-over-student-loan-152348531.html One of the nation’s largest teachers unions filed suit Thursday against Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, accusing her agency of mismanaging a major program intended to provide student loan forgiveness to public service workers. The American […]