Part-Time Faculty Jobs to Remain Secure During Accreditation Appeal at California Community College
On November 21, 2005, administration, students, and faculty at Compton Community College in Compton, California learned that the June, 2005 decision of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) to pull CCC’s accreditation had been upheld by the organization’s Accrediting Commission. Compton officials filed a second appeal this past December. The future of Compton’s 89 part-time faculty hangs in the balance. Should these part-timers start stockpiling rice and potatoes and scrambling for new jobs while waiting for the axe to fall at CCC? No, says a college spokesperson, who preferred not to be named, but whose remarks were confirmed […]