ARCHIVES
2008
April 2008
March 2008
Negotiations Flashback...and Beyond | Postmortem of a Proposition | DPAC, GASB, the Board, and Us -- A Drama in Three Acts | ...but what have you done for me lately? | Thanks!
2007
October 2007
The Community College Initiative...what it takes to win | "Outside Experts...or "Hired Guns"? | AAUP Summer Institute
August 2007
College Budget Outlook Best in Years | Editorial: A Santa Monica Moment | Budget Quiz | Negotiations Update
May 2007 The Greening of SMC | College Examines Budget Priorities
Mar 2007
GASB Q & A | To GASBE or not to GASBE? | AAUP - CA Annual Meeting
2006
Nov 2006, Volume 17, Issue 3
Vote on November 7 | Who Controls Your Classroom? | "FLEX" Doesn't Mean "Optional" | Photos from Recent Events
Oct 2006, Volume 17, Issue 2
Contract Ratified | SMCFA- PAC Beachparty Fundraiser
Sept 2006, Volume 17, Issue 1
What does the District's Latest Proposal Mean to You? | Negotiations Update | SMRR Convention |CCCI Update
May 2006, Volume 16, Issue 6
What is "Work-To-Contract"? | Work-To-Contract FAQs
April 2006, Volume 16, Issue 5
Fair Contract Now! Faculty Leaders Address the Trustees | Another Faculty Leader Addresses the Trustees | How SMC is Run Like Wal-Mart | Facts and More Facts | District Tries to Spin Good News | Faculty Picket at 2714
February 2006 , Volume 16, Issue 4
A Fair Offer? | The Phantom Four Million | Sacramento Report
2005
December 2005, Volume 16, Issue 3
Welcome Home, Dr. Tsang | Faculty Slam District Offer | The Incredible Shrinking Full-Time Faculty | Book Review: Agent Provocateur
October 2005, Volume 16, Issue 2 - SPECIAL EDITION
Negotiations Update | Facts to Consider
September 2005, Volume 16, Issue 1
Playing Dice with the Future of SMC | College Rolls Snake Eyes | Enrollment and the 60% Law | Sacramento Report | Welcome to the Flogosphere
May 2005, Volume 15, Issue 5
An Unattractive Nuisance | Academic Senate Update | SMC Trustees Pick Search Consultant | CCCI Spring Conference | Collegewide Benefits Committee Update | Know Your Contract | Negotiations Update | Quote of the Week | What's Going On?
March 2005, Volume 15, Issue 4
The Drop in Enrollment: Deja Vu All Over | Collegewide Benefits Committee | Negotiations Update | Protect Your Pensions! | Major Issues Confronting Community College Faculty | Trustees Begin Search For New SMC President | Know Your Contract
2004
December 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3
Power = Money | Money = Power | Report from the Anaheim Mariott | Holiday Party a Success
October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 2
Endorsements 2004 Election | A Chronic Problem | The Nefarious Mission, Part 2 | CPR Rejects Elimination of CCCBOG | Budget: Then and Now
September 2004, Volume 15, Issue 1
Help is On the Way | Veteran's Day Holiday Changed at SMC | Is the Faculty Too Productive? | Califormia Community College Independents [CCCI]: Report. | The Nefarious Mission, Part 1 | Santa Monica College President's Contract Renewed | FA Wins Arbitration for Terminated Faculty | SMC-PAC Fundraiser Beach Party
April 2004, Volume 14, Issue 6
Budget Talks | Teach-In II | "Behold, the Rivers are Running Backwards!" | March in March II | Looting the Part-time Equity Funds | Fundraiser Invitation
March 2004, Volume 14, Issue 5
Are Some Districts More Equal than Others? | Budget Workshop or Shell Game? | "Fringe Benefits" Survey | SMC Sexual Harassment Policy | Ed Asner to Speak at SMC Teach-in/Rally for Sacramento March | Santa Monica College Board of Trustees Hold Budget Workshop
December, 2004, Volume 14, Issue 4
Closing Ranks | Teach-in For Peace | The Fundraiser | 2003 FACCC Conference | CCCI Semi-Annual Meeting: A Report | Calling for the Return of Community in Our College | Equalization Blues | I Want You to Get Involved
2003
November, 2003 Volume 14, Issue 3 Playing Dice with the Future of SMC | Infrequently Asked Questions | AAUP Addresses Contingent Faculty Issues | Doing the Right Thing | Dialog with a New Trustee? | Letters to the Editor | College Growth and Faculty headcount: Behind the Numbers
September, 2003 Volume 14, Issue 2
District Is Hiding $3 Million: Lay Offs Unnecessary
September, 2003 Volume 14, Issue 1
Eleven Questions for the Trustees | College Penalized for not Hiring New Full-Time Faculty | He Who Holds the Heifer | Where's the Money | Associate Faculty | The Road to Perdition | Programs, Pay Cuts And Loose Talk | Perpetrator as Victim | CSEA to Admin: Work with Us!
May, 2003, Volume 13, Issue 6
The Madison School Massacre | Board To Faculty: Guilty! | It's the Bookstore, Stupid! | Students Vow to Save Programs | April 24: CSEA rejects District proposal to lay off 52 classified staff and institute 10% reduction in hours | FACCC Election Results | Why Won't the District Cut a Deal?
April, 2003, Volume 13, Issue 5
New Budget Strategy is Needed | Save Non-credit ESL | "Keep the Doors Open!"| Why Eliminate Vocational Programs? | Early Retirement Incentives | They need your Vote
January, 2003, Volume 13, Issue 4
An Opportunity for Cooperation | Rally and March on Sacramento | Will they Rename Santa Monica College Ghost Town College? | A Community College Faculty Dilemma | Should you Retire and Make More Money?
2002
December, 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3
Is It Sexual Harassment or a Witch Hunt? | How Many Students Make a Class at SMC? | Governor Davis Calls Special Session
November, 2002, Volume 13, Issue 2
Candidates Forum and the November Election | Privatization: A Disturbing New Trend in Education | Negotiation Update | Let Me Count the Ways: The payroll...Blues | Congratulations Teri Bernstein!!! | Classified negotiations Update | Santa Monica College Faculty & Classified Staff Support Greenstein & Winslow for SMC Board of Trustees
September, 2002, Volume 13, Issue 1
Board Candidates Forum is Set | What Was the College Reorganization Really about? | When Do I Get My Salary Increase? | CSEA Prepares for negotiations With the District | Are you Working Full Time for only $12,423 a Year? | What? Another Payroll Problem?
May, 2002, Volume 12, Issue 5
It's Job Security, Stupid! Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Associate Faculty Status | Informal Faculty Evaluations, Why Not? | Faculty Opinion: A Forum for All Points of View | Part-Time Faculty is a Faculty Concern! | Laws Affecting your Benefits | Food For Thought: SMC's Full-time Faculty Per Each Administrator
April, 2002, volume 12, Issue 4
"Lobby Day: Restore the Funding!" | What Happens if You are Called In? | Governor Davis' 2002-2003 Budget Proposal: A Virtual Decimation of Student Support Services | Professional Development : State to Cut Funds for 2002-2003 | CPFA Annual Plenary
ASPP Report
February 2002, Volume 12, Issue 3
FA Backs Measure U | What! Faculty Have Rights? | Governor's January Budget: Half-full or Half-empty? | Should You Retire and make More Money? --Take Two | FACCC Lobby Day | A Note on Load | Do You Understand What's On Your Pay Stub?
2001
December 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2
"The Era of Good Feeling" | Compressed Steps? What Does it All Mean? | FACCC Membership Dues Are Tax Deductible | Summary of Table Agreement: October 29, 2001 | Faculty Opinion: A Forum for All Points of View | Should You Retire and Make More Money?
September 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1
Faculty Groups Join In Campaign to Fight Davis' Veto | The State of Negotiations | Campaign 2002 | Lawsuit Set for Mediation | Campus Equity Week | SMC Faculty Association Retreat | It's Time to Normalize Load | Congratulations! To Fran Chandler and Lantz Simpson | CSEA Update | Responses to Faculty Questions | Faculty Opinion: A Forum for All Points of View
May 2001, Volume 11, Issue 6
Community College Funding Survives May Revise | Contract Negotiations Update | Faculty Association Election Results | Equal Treatment for All Classroom Hours | Faculty Opinion: A Forum For All Points of View | Part-time Issues Task Force Says: Close the Gap! | FACCC Board At Work for You!
April 2001, Volume 11, Issue 5
Santa Monica Faculty Show of Force at Lobby Day | CSEA Report | Negotiations Update | Faculty Opinion: A forum for All Points of View | The Academic Senate and the Board of Trustees Meet
February 2001, Volume 11, Issue 4
Contract Negotiations Set To Begin | FACCC Joins The 50% Lawsuit Fight | COCAL Conference A Smashing Success | Power = Money | Part-Time Task Force: How To Spend $62 Million | Probationary Faculty: Know Your Rights (see bottom of page) | Faculty Association Builds PAC and Grows Coalitions | Leadership Lobby Day: Here's Your Chance To Meet And Talk To Law Makers About SMC | Political Action Committee Bylaws Up For Revisions | Board Retreat Discusses Bond Issue | Association Wins Arbitration
2000
December 2000,Volume 11, Issue 3
The 50% Law: Task Force to Address Compliance Issues | District Files for Exemption |Community College Faculty Honor Robert M. Hertzberg | $8.6 Billion CalSTRS Retirement Agreement | Academic Senate Opposes Elimination of Reassigned Time to Solve District's 50% Problem | Mixed Results in the Board of Trustees Election
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
Assembly Approves Refiling 50% Lawsuit | State Auditor Vindicates Faculty Association | Higher Education summit Highlights FACCC Conference | Assembly Endorses Klepa and Quinones | Chancellor's Task Force Meets to Consider Changes to 50% Law |
CSEA (California School Employees Association) Chapter 36 Report | Phone Banking | Negotiations Update: Surveys Are Out! |
Fundraiser Is a Success | Legal Fund Established
September 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
50% Law Problems? | CCCI Conference | Have You Seen It? | FACCC Retreat | Chancellor's Ruling on 50% Law A Mixed Bag | Meet Your Colleagues | Website Gets a Face-Lift | Faculty Ass'n PAC Revs Up | Summary of New Contract Provisions | Trustees Candidates Interviews | Kudos to Fran and Teri: Association Stronger than Ever
1999
November 1999
November 99
October 1999
Main Menu | District Fails to Do Its Homework | Miller, Gelvin and Vanda Do The Right Thing
April 1999
Main Menu | Pizza, Posters and Picketing... | Seven Days in May | Election Results | Thank you and Welcome Mitra | Rumor Mill Correction | Why don't we have a contract yet? | SSMI Results in Call for Additional Fall Classes | A Sad Good-Bye | Signs Point to...
February 1999
Main Menu | Special Deals | Call for Action: Social Security | District Sends Ten to FACC | Perspective|Tech Liaison Compensation | Negotiations Update | Lawsuit: 50% Update | Activity Hour Task Force | Call for Open Letters
1998
June 1998
Main Menu | President Column | "Weingarten" rule | Mark your Calendar | FA Gives a Hand to Classified Employees | Faculty Debate (Anderson vs. Chandler) | 1998-99 Representative Assembly | Boardnotes
October1998
Main Menu | Settle For More | Summer of Discontent for Community Colleges |District Acted Unilaterally in Abolishing Activity Hour: PERB Charge Filed | Faculty/Staff/Student Comments on the District's Unilateral Elimination of the Activity Hour | Board Notes by Bernstein
November 1998
Main Menu | Negotiations: Background and Update | President's column | Pizza, Pens, and Postage| Administration Misrepresentations Cause Faculty Misunderstandings | Unanimous Vote for Impasse | Midstream thanks from Teri Bernstein, Fran Chandler and Alan Buckley | Vice President Ill
November 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
Main Menu | Unfair Labor Practice Charges | The 50% Law: A Summary of the problem and how to fix it | PERB Unfair Labor practice Charge against District Dropped| "Mutual Respect" or "We Get To Do What We Want"? | Shhhh! Can you keep a secret?
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