Action 2000 Coalition Equity Week
by Linda Cushing THE ACTION 2000 Coalition, a group of statewide faculty organizations working to promote equal pay for part-time community college instructors, hereby declares April 3 – 7, 2000 to be “Part Time Faculty Equity Week” throughout the State of California. Adjunct faculty comprise nearly two-thirds of all instructors in the community college system, yet they are paid on average only 37 percent of what full-time faculty make when teaching the same class. Decrying the pay disparity between full-time and part-time faculty are the organizational members of the coalition: CFT (California Federation of Teachers), CPFA (California Part-Time Faculty Association), CTA (California Teachers Association), […]