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• There
are approximately 30,000 part-time or "adjunct" instructors,
counselors, and librarians in the California community colleges. That’s
about two out of three faculty members!
• Part-time
faculty are paid much less than full-time faculty for teaching the same
class and the same students. The average pay per class is 37 percent of
what full-time faculty make—37 cents to a full-timer’s dollar.
But part-time faculty are required to meet the same qualifications as
their full-time colleagues!
• Part-timers
receive few—if any—health benefits, and have no job security.
• Part-time
faculty cannot be full-service faculty, as they are not paid for participating
in department and campus-wide decision-making. Most colleges do not even
pay for faculty to hold office hours with students, and don’t provide
instructors with office space–other than their own cars.
Our
teachers and our students deserve better!
Faculty working conditions are student learning conditions!
less pay
for teaching the same class
Adjuncts are required to have equivalent qualification
to those of full-time, tenure-track faculty. Yet they receive one-third
to two-thirds less money for doing identical teaching work. Many part-timers
are paid only for time in the classroom, and receive no compensation for
preparation, grading, even holidays.
little or
no health benefits or job security
While some colleges offer minimal health benefits
and priority re-hiring rights, for the most part adjuncts are underinsured
and have no guarantee of work from semester to semester. Their classes
can be cancelled or changed at the last minute.
"freeway
fliers" and "roads scholars"
Part-time faculty are less available to students because
they are often "freeway flying," driving from one campus to
the next. Office hours are rarely paid for and office space often unavailable,
so adjuncts meet with students on their own time when they can.
negative
impacts on the environment
Part-timers must drive to two, three, even four different
campuses to piece together a living, causing a wasteful use of gasoline
and creating more traffic.
what
do we want?
dignity and equity for all faculty:
• Equal
pay for equal work • Job security •
Health benefits
• More
full-time positions • The opportunity
to be full-service instructors
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