Adjuncts – are you teaching this semester?

Adjuncts – are you teaching this semester? If not, send an email to your Dean and Department Chair making sure that you are interested in teaching next semester, and summer too if you feel your Department will schedule you for summer. What I have heard in several meetings is that our district, SDCCD, really does […]

SDCCD Salary Schedule Increases for 2019

AFT Guild President Jim Mahler today sent out the announcement below regarding economic issues for next year along with the attached salary schedules.  Of note is that Adjunct Faculty will receive 0.84% increases and Contract Faculty will receive 0.50% increases.  That’s right, folks, 4/5’s of a percent for Adjuncts and 1/2 of a percent for Contract.  […]

Finding a Full Time Job: Part 4 of 4

During the August 2018 Academic Senate for the Community Colleges of California, a reoccurring theme in General Sessions and Break-Out Sessions was Employment, i.e. how an Adjunct can get a full time job at a Community College.   While much of this was repeated, I will organize it the way it makes sense to me.  There […]

SDCCD Adjuncts: Did your class get cut?

Email to fellow Adjuncts:  sent 9/3/18 Hello everyone, Did you have a class cancelled?  I did.  Allow me to share some tips that I have been told: Go to PeopleSoft and turn in a timesheet for the hours you did actually meet with your students.  Be precise.  For example, my class actually meets, per the […]

Finding a Full Time Job: Part 3 of 4

Finding a full time Community College teaching job: From the August 2018 Academic Senate for the Community Colleges of California, this is Part 3 of 4 (From the recollections of Carlynne Allbee): 3) Experience: Applications and hiring committees want to see that you have experience. Look at job listings to see a sample of what […]