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By
Gloria Heller
Grossmont College provided a refreshing venue for the
latest Part-Time Issues Workshop, co-hosted this time
by both the Faculty Association of California Community
Colleges and the California Part-time Faculty Association.
From SMC, Lantz Simpson, Suzanne Floyd, and I attended
the day-long event, on Saturday, February 24, during which
FACCC and CPFA scheduled a broad-spectrum agenda with
a something-for-every-taste appeal.
Part-timers from all across the Southland listened to
the varied presentations-- and enjoyed lunch sponsored
by Zuk and Associates, who conducted an afternoon workshop
on financial planning. Visiting dignitary Margaret
Quan, Chair of the FACCC Board of Governors Part-Time
Issues Committee, addressed the audience first, setting
the stage for the day. She was followed by Peter Hough
and Tom Barrett from STRS, explaining the Defined Benefit
and Cash Balance Retirement Plans to a roomful of people
who in all likelihood will never vest in STRS or are not
enrolled. According to AB 1122, passed in 1995,
service credit for part-time faculty in STRS was to be
calculated on a true pro rata basis beginning July 1,
1996. STRS states that audits will be conducted
on those districts not calculating part-timers' service
credit correctly. Hough, in fact, claimed that STRS
will begin applying pressure on non-complying districts
within one year. Also in attendance
from "up north" were Lin Fraser, the newly appointed Part-time
Representative for CFT/ CCC, and Mary Ellen Goodwin, CPFA
Director of Administration. Both updated the attendees,
with Mary Ellen also reporting on COCAL IV, the Conference
on Contingent Academic Labor for whose Steering Committee
she served as Chair. Mary Ellen
also announced that
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COCAL
V has begun planning Campus Equity Week for the end of
October 2001; she urged people to check out CPFA's website,
www.cpfa.org for more information on this unprecedented
international event.
Among others reporting on their local activities, union
and otherwise, were: Sandy Baringer, Marutte Hecht, and
Jackie Simon (Palomar), David Milroy (Grossmont and San
Diego), Therese Gray (Coastline), Lynn Woods (Glendale
and Pasadena), and Lantz Simpson (SMC). David Hawkins
of FACCC gave a comprehensive legislative update as well
as wishing us all goodbye; David's resignation, from his
post as FACCC's Director of Government Affairs, came as
a surprise to many in the audience. Although he
is being replaced by Doug Lindsey, who was Scott Wildman's
aide, David will be greatly missed.
It was energizing to network with other part-timers from
our spread-out state just as Spring semester was beginning
here at SMC. This gathering proved again how invaluable
coalition-building is and how much vitality "the new kid
on the block" (CPFA) can contribute.
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