Conference 2026 — CPFA: Moving Forward
Join us on Zoom May 16, 2026 for CPFA's Annual Conference, CPFA: Moving Forward. Register now online. It's open and free to all part-time faculty and allies.
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WARNING! Districts Skirt Lawsuits With New Collective Bargaining Agreements
By John Martin, CPFA Chair As many of you may know, several lawsuits have been ongoing since October 2022. At that time, a total of 20 community college districts were put on notice by individual […]
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ASCCC Passed Resolution for a United Faculty (One-tier Model)
By Annette Owens, CPFA Greater L.A. Regional Representative This spring, the Academic Senate for California Community Colleges (ASCCC) officially joined the alphabet soup of organizations who are on record supporting the United Faculty (aka: One Tier, […]
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Recent Rulings in Two Lawsuits Regarding Part-time Pay
Judges recently issued positive rulings in two class action lawsuits, one against Long Beach Community College District and the other against 20 Community College Districts and the California Community Colleges Board of Governors. The cases allege that part-time faculty are illegally required to do unpaid work outside the classroom such as grading, class preparation, and communicating with students.
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L.A. Judge: Community college adjuncts are entitled to pay for grading, planning and office hours
A state Superior Court judge in Los Angeles County has ruled in a lawsuit that part-time professors in the Long Beach Community College District should be paid for work they do outside the classroom such as preparing lectures, grading papers, and meeting with students.
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The One-Tier Concept for Advancing Student Success and Achieving Faculty Equality
By Cynthia Mahabir, Laney College | Originally published in FACCCTS, Fall 2024 The Problem There’s a fundamental weakness in our California Community College system that impairs student success. Fortunately, there’s also a prospective solution. At […]
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CPFA Wants to Amplify Your Voice on Part-Time Faculty Issues
CPFA is seeking creative and impactful submissions that relate to part-time labor issues. We’re looking for diverse voices and formats to spark conversation and inspire action.
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Faculty Apartheid in Higher Education
Nearly seventy years ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that separate can never be equal and struck down racial segregation in our nation’s K-12 public schools (Brown v. Board of Education). Yet in the past fifty years, higher education has instituted a separate but unequal system of faculty employment based on tenure-status. . . .
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Adjuncts sue California community college system, eight local districts over unpaid work hours
‘It’s been a long time brewing,’ one of the plaintiffs said over the suit which alleges violations of state law. By Thomas Peele an Investigative Reporter at EdSourceReposted with Permission of EdSource Seven part-time community college […]
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CPFA News & Forum
The CPFA Blog is full of articles and analyses written by and for part-time faculty, which focus on education in California, part-time faculty issues, unions and associations that have broad national appeal.
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CPFA Journal
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CPFA Membership
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The California Part-time Faculty Association (CPFA) has been serving nearly 40,000 part-time faculty employed in the California Community Colleges (CCC) System since 1998.