Cerritos and Citrus Part-time Faculty Lives Transformed by New Healthcare Coverage
The work to get healthcare for these faculty members was hard. From what started as campaign in 2021 to the passage of legislation in 2022, many districts questioned whether the funding would remain–it did and still does fortunately.
Having just rolled out this spring, 90 part-time faculty have already started taking advantage of the plan, and it is starting to transform their lives.
CFT Faces Legislative Headwinds but Pushes Forward
“When we’re attacked, we don’t fall back, we move forward,” is a phrase synonymous with AFT, and nowhere was this clearer than CFT’s legislative agenda for part-time faculty.
This year brings with it the challenges of a national administration that is, to put it mildly, anti-public education, anti-academic freedom, and anti-union.
CFT One-Faculty Task Force Moving from Words to Larger Actions
CFT took a tremendous step forward with an inaugural CFT Statewide One-Faculty Workshop held online on July 1st with over 100 members, both part and full-time faculty from over 19 different locals.
The CFT Part-Timer promotes the interests of part-time faculty working in the California community colleges. It contains news about the movement to establish better conditions of employment for adjunct faculty, both in California and North America. Browse stories by date here or by index here.
Part-Timer is published twice during the academic year, in the fall and in the spring. The newsletter is emailed to part-time faculty. We welcome unsolicited articles, letters, and story ideas.
