FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2000

CONTACT: Linda Cushing, Action 2000 Coalition Chair; 714-526-7220; cushing@allweb.com

Part-time Faculty Equity Week Gets Under Way; Bird Flies North

Following are known appearances of the Freeway Flyer, the hoarse and tattered bird in academic gown and mortarboard, for later this week:

Southern California:

Wednesday April 5:

Los Angeles Valley College (Van Nuys), 9:30-10:30am in the quad

Northern California:

Wednesday April 5:

San Jose City College, 11:30 am

Thursday April 6:

De Anza College (Cupertino), 11:30am

Meanwhile, part-time faculty at Santa Rosa Junior College will honor their Statue to the Unknown Adjunct and meet with local legislators in the staff lounge Thursday April 6, 4-5:30pm.

 

Saturday April 8:

Flight-Weary Bird Will Take Train to Sacramento

The feathery creature has reservations on Amtrak Saturday, leaving San Jose at 7:34am and arriving in Sacramento at 10:49am where it will make an appearance at the CATESOL conference being held at the Hyatt Hotel and Convention Center. If anyone cares to join in the migration from San Jose to Sacramento, please contact Mary Ellen Goodwin (megsplace@earthlink.net) for details.

Part-time Faculty Equity Week is a public education project of the Action 2000 Coalition, calling attention to the fact that the state’s 30,000 part-time community college instructors receive, on average, only 37% of the salary received by full-time instructors for an equivalent teaching load. Part-time faculty will be collecting signatures on petitions addressed to Governor Gray Davis, Chancellor Tom Nussbaum, and state legislators asking for budget increases in support of part-time faculty equity.

"Part-time faculty must be paid equally proportionate to their teaching load. Equal pay for equal work is not just a slogan — it is a minimum standard we must meet," says Ron Reel, Vice President of the Community College Association of the California Teachers Association. Other institutional members of the coalition are CCCI (California Community College Independents), CFT (California Federation of Teachers), CPFA (California Part-time Faculty Association), FACCC (Faculty Association of California Community Colleges), and CWA (Communications Workers of America).