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President: Mitra Moassessi

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March 2009, Volume 23, Issue 1 - El Chorro Summit Creates New State-wide Organization PDF Print E-mail
Originally published in the Advocate in September 1998.

SAN LUIS OBISPO—A historic event took place on the Central Coast this month. Leaders of part-time faculty from community colleges across the state gathered in El Chorro Regional Park August 7-9 to discuss the formation of a new statewide organization that would address part-time faculty issues in the California Com-munity College system. This will be the first statewide faculty organization created by and for part-time instructors, who outnumber by three to one their full-time colleagues on community college campuses .

The three-day meeting, dubbed the ―El Chorro Summit,‖ was well attended. Faculty from over thirty community colleges participated in the planning and staging of this event. A steering committee and media committee were established, and representatives were elected to attend statewide faculty leadership councils. Plans were also laid to establish a statewide newspaper, web-page, internet listserv, speakers bureau, and a system for rating community colleges based on comparisons of part-time faculty hiring, training, retention, pro-motion, working conditions, benefits, and wages.

The mission of the newly formed organization is to promote professional equity within the California Community College system. Both part-time and full-time faculty are required to meet the same minimum qualifications for employment and to share the same professional responsibility for providing students with the highest quality instruction. Therefore, all faculty should participate in departmental functions,

share organizational responsibilities and re-wards, and have the same support services, office space, choice of educational materials, and opportunities for professional development and promotion. At the present time, these conditions do not uniformly exist in the community colleges of California. The slow progress in achieving these goals has been partly responsible for forming this organization to uniquely address these issues of professional equity.

CPFA just celebrated it’s 10th Anniversary with a convention held at SMC; it has become the most important advocacy organization devoted exclusively to part-timers in the state.
  		 

 

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