Here are resources from SDAFA’s Open Member Meeting, held online Friday, October 29, 1:00-3:00 pm PST. The topics included:
- Part-time Governance – Opportunities to serve in your college governance. SDAFA board members will share their experiences serving on their campuses and developing the PT voice.
- Healthcare Solutions – Updates for PTers losing SDCCD benefits on Sept 30 – Carlynne Allbee
- CalRTA update on the STRS 180-day rule – The 180-day rule and PTers who want to retire with STRS and still continue teaching – David Milroy
- “Program for Change” – A closer look at the Vancouver Model – Jack Longmate and special guest Frank Cosco spoke on the one-tier equitable faculty model being used at Vancouver Community College. The Program for Change in Higher Education is a plan for developing this model in the U.S.
Link to the Video
Part-time Governance
Here is a sample of ways to get involved:
Your Union
- AFT Guild 1931 SDCCD and Grossmont/Cuyamaca
- Mira Costa College Academic Associate Faculty (MCCAAF)
- Palomar Faculty Federation
- Southwestern College Education Association (SCEA)
Your Faculty Senate
and/or sign up for one of Statewide Academic Senate Committees
Other advocacy organizations
Healthcare Solutions
Last month’s SDAFA meeting focusing on healthcare
California Retired Teachers Association
Program for Change/ Vancouver Model
- Jack Longmates slide presentation
- Good summary from the CPFA
- Frank Cosco’s comparison of a typical 50% assignment between Vancouver and SDCCD: 43K vs 21K
- candidate’s forum questionnaire using the Model for Change
- current strikes in the US, some over two-tiered systems.
Bibliography
Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education
by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen (2021)
Intra-Educational Classism: How the Liberal Middle Classes Dominate the Working Classes in Education
by Benton Fazzolari Ph.D. (2021)
Equality for Contingent Faculty: Overcoming the Two-Tier System
edited by Keith Hoeller (2014)