Interesting reads
FA Newsletters:
- Spring 2013 Newsletter (ONLINE EDITION) includes summary of Spring 2013 – faculty standing up!, Sticking points and District’s Last, Best and Final Offer, Statement from Calendar Committee and statistics that support winter success rates; statement by Lana Fields, Message to part-timers, Behind the Scenes in the FA Office
- Fall 2012 Newsletter includes Negotiations Update of Nov. 7, state-wide faculty salary comparisons, unabridged faculty responses to survey
- FA Letter to Faculty, Students, Staff about Calendar (9/5/12)
- Summer 2012 includes Emergency All-Campus Meeting, Updated Summary of Basic Budget Issues, Associated Students Resolution on Winter Intersession
- April-May 2012 includes PCC Class Cuts Mean Less Access for Students and Loss of Faculty Jobs, Fired Retirees Are Fighting Back, Welcome to PCC…Now Sign Away Your Privacy Rights, Part-Time Update
- February-March 2012 includes Our Leadership Moment in a Time of Crisis, letters from faculty to Board of Trustees and responses
- November-December 2011 includes Part Time Faculty Concerns About Elimination of Winter Intersession, PCC Admin Fumbles on Large Group Instruction, Cash Flow & Sweeps
- September-October 2011 includes Troublesome Questions Regarding College Realignment, Budget Basics, CALSTRS Pension News
Articles recommended by the FA:
AAUP Sees MOOC’s as Spawning New Threats to Professors’ Intellectual Property, Chronicle of Higher Ed, June 13, 2013
Long Beach City College Student Rep Declares War on BOTs…, OC Weekly, May 9, 2013
CCSF Faculty Unions File Complaint , May, 2013
The Neo-Liberal Assault on Academia, April 2013
Long Beach City College Students Seek Recall of 4 LBCC Trustees, Contra Costa Times, April, 24, 2013
Students Ready to Fight Bill that would Create Higher-Fe Classes, LA Times, April, 20, 2013
Chronicle of Higher Education “Seeking to Mend Relations, Pasadena City President Offers Coffee to Faculty Critics ” – April 12, 2013
California Adviser Placed on Leave Pending Investigation – April 3, 2013
Opinion: A Crisis at Pasadena City College – SGVTribune.com – April 3, 2013
PCC’s Vote of No Confidence press clips – March 2013
Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) Gone Wild – Investigative Report from City College of San Francisco, February 25, 2013
CCSF Students Occupy Conlan Hall in protest to accreditation process, Golden Gate Xpress, Feb. 21, 2013
Brown Seeks to Reshape California’s Community Colleges, LA Times, Jan. 20, 2013
Adjunct Project Shows Wide Range in Pay, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 4, 2013
Carnegie, the Founder of the Credit Hour, Seeks Its Makeover, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Dec. 5, 2012
New National Tally of College Completion Tries to Count All Students, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 15, 2012 (Summary: completion rates indicate that CCs are doing much better than what is traditionally measured.)
Adjuncts Build Strength in Numbers – the new majority generates a shift in academic culture, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 7, 2012
Local Community College Presidents Earn Hundreds of Thousands in Salary, Benefits, Pasadena Star News, Oct 6, 2012
Students, Faculty Protest Long Beach City College Cuts, Contra Costa Times.com, Sep 25, 2012
Rejecting Test Scores as a Core Value, LA Times, Sep 21, 2012
City College of SF’s Woes Help Trigger a Shared Governance Tussle in CA, Inside Higher Ed, Sep 21, 2012
Quebec’s Striking Students Have Won, Business Insider, Sep 22, 2012
Court Strikes Down Wisconsin Collective Bargaining Law NPR, Sep 14, 2012
Chicago Public Teachers Stage Historic Strike in Clash with Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Education Reforms Democracy Now, Sep 10, 2012
How to Climb Down From Top-Down Leadership, Academe, American Association of University Professors
Shared Governance in the California Community Colleges, Academe, July-Aug 2002 American Association of University Professors
Faculty-to Faculty Recommended Reading:
Letter to the Editor: PCC President, board, making poor decisions, Pasadena Star News, May 25, 2013
Letter to the Editor: A PCC teacher responds to the controversy, Pasadena Star News, May 14, 2013
Opinion: A Crisis at Pasadena City College, SGV Tribune.com, April 3, 2013
Heads Rolling Down at PCC, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, June 21, 2012
Austerity Education: The Real Agenda of Pathways, Professional Staff Congress of City University of New York, Oct. 2012
Students are not Commodities, Education is not a Business,(Part II) Courier, Oct. 24, 2012
Budget Crisis an Excuse for Draconian Changes, (Part I) Courier, Oct 17, 2012
Shared Governance a Casualty of Rushed Decision on Winter, Courier, Sep 5, 2012
Almost with a Smile, West Accepts Bus Sked Compromise. Residents Don’t The Front Page Online, March 8, 2011
Billions to Spend – How a $5.7 billion program to rebuild L.A. community colleges went astray LA Times, Feb 25, 2011
Salkin’s Advice to the City on West L.A. City College: Sue The Front Page Online, July 26, 2010
West L.A. College College President Mark Rocha Joins the Exodus Culver City Crossroads, June 10, 2010
Are they listening? Past letters / speeches to the PCC Board:
Letter to Mark Rocha in response to his letter to faculty; also see: “Personal Letter to My Faculty Colleagues” April, 9, 2013 from Mark Rocha
12 Letters read at the Board of Trustees Meeting (4/3/2013)
Email re: adjunct faculty to Board of Trustees (11/13/12)
Public comment from FA – Negotiations Summary and Impasse Reached (10/3/2012)
Foreign Languages Division letter about mid-year Winter semester cut (9/18/2012)
FA Letter to Board to postpone vote on new calendar (8/28/2012)
PCCFA Letter to Board of Trustees to save the Winter intersession (August 28, 2012)
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