San Diego Adjunct Faculty Association
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Dr. Carroll, Vice Chancellors Dowd, Surbrook, and Bulger, There is much concern among part-time faculty over the email we received on Monday informing us that we will not be receiving our first pay warrant of the semester until March 10. Please see the emails below between myself and others and members of the AFT Guild […]
The SDAFA Players performed a theater piece on the plight of adjuncts at City College and Mesa College as part of Campus Equity Week, October 22 and 23, 2019. The piece was originally performed at Palomar college for the last Campus Equity Week in 2017. It is sad to see how relevant the themes are […]
Jim Mahler released his tentative Contract Bargaining Agreement (CBA) for the San Diego Community College District (SDCCD), and it’s an overall win for adjuncts! No more Chairs and Deans trying to scare us out of applying for job security (PoA); automatic Our PoA wait-time goes down from 8 semesters back to 6 The ability to […]
From Jim Mahler: Dear Colleagues, I am writing to request that you take a few minutes to write a letter of support for Assembly Bill 463 – the CFT-sponsored community college part-time faculty student debt bill. The bill is currently on the governor’s desk. We need as many letters as possible to encourage the governor to […]
We hope you will be able to join us at our next SDAFA meeting to be held: Friday, September 13 from 12 noon to 3:00 pm (Light lunch included!) San Diego City College in room MS-123. Lunch will be served at 12 noon with the discussion and program following immediately after. SDAFA will be holding an open discussion of part-time faculty issues in the Academic […]
Editor’s note: The Farewell Letter has become one of the most prevalent genres in 21st Century adjunct literature. The example below contains some of the more common tropes of peripeteia, precarity, and eschatology. We hope it also serves as both a cautionary tale to watch the clock, and as a rallying cry to continue the […]