by Chris Cumo and P.D. Lesko

Since 2001, thanks to the Part-Time Faculty Equity Pay Law, legislators in California have, yearly, earmarked $57 million dollars in tax money to go toward pay increases for the state’s 35,740 part-time faculty. Prior to the passage of the Part-Time Faculty Equity Pay Law, a typical part-timer teaching four courses per semester earned an average annual salary of $20,000.

According to data recently released by the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office in Sacramento and analyzed by California Community College Legislative Analyst Chris Storer, in the 2001-2002 fiscal year, college officials dispersed only $47.6 million of the $57 million to faculty. Of that $47.6 million that officials did distribute to faculty, not all ended up in the paychecks of part-time faculty. Full-time faculty have pocketed millions of dollars of the equity pay the state’s legislators and taxpayers were led to believe would go toward bolstering the pay of the state’s temporary faculty.

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