California Federation of Teachers

Will a Lawsuit Save the Jobs of 1,464 PTers at City College of San Francisco?

by Nanette Asimov AdjunctNation reported in July 2013 that at the City College of San Francisco, 1,464 part-time faculty jobs are on the line. One month later, we also reported on the Department of Education’s harsh criticism of the accreditation report that led to the threatened...

California Set to Institutionalize Jim Crow For Adjuncts

By P.D. Lesko Separate but equal. It seemed like a workable solution in the 1890s, when the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on Plessy vs. Ferguson. You have yours and.

Screwing the New Faculty Majority in the Same Old Ways

Did you participate in the New Faculty Majority Day? Did you read about it? The idea for a day when faculty off the tenure-track across the United States come out.

Community College Jobs: Ph.D. Holders Need Not Apply

by Chris Cumo With a Ph.D. in Victorian Literature from CUNY, Christina Boufis set her sights on a research university. But expectations fell when the job search stalled, and she settled for “making a living as an overextended adjunct,” which included a stint at a community college. Two...

Hearing is Believing: Televised hearings shine a bright light on California’s 29,000 part-time faculty

by D.J. Brasket AN HISTORIC EVENT took place in California on January 12, 2000 as a Joint Legislative Audit Committee held a four-hour hearing in at the State Capitol to.

Hearing is Believing: Televised hearings shine a bright light on California's 29,000 part-time faculty