Advocating for change is one of the cornerstones of The California Part-time Faculty Association’s (CPFA) founding principles. Part of CPFA’s motivating vision is to complement, enhance and reinvigorate the work that is already being done in post-secondary faculty organizations across the state and nationally who share the CPFA mission, as well as to create new alliances with other faculty, academic, labor, or social organizations, statewide or nationally, who share CPFA’s goals. Our hope is that a strategically collaborative approach will pick up momentum as CPFA further expands a united community of part-time advocates on the ground and online, and as CPFA ultimately builds a louder, more powerful voice advocating for the basic rights of part-time faculty in higher education.
Workers’ Rights
Do part-time faculty have rights?
The CPFA’s Executive Committee believes that they do, and seeks to endorse a complete Bill of Rights for all part-time faculty — an unprecedented declaration first proposed by Jack Longmate in Seattle, Washington.
- A third of California community college districts sued by part-time faculty
By Tarini Mehta, originally published in the Sacramento Bee on June 26, 2026 After four years of battling in court, part-time faculty members reached an $18 million settlement with the Long Beach Community College District earlier this year over what they called a failure to compensate them for work done outside the classroom. They spend hours… Read more: A third of California community college districts sued by part-time faculty - L.A. Judge: Community college adjuncts are entitled to pay for grading, planning and office hours
A state Superior Court judge in Los Angeles County has ruled in a lawsuit that part-time professors in the Long Beach Community College District should be paid for work they do outside the classroom such as preparing lectures, grading papers, and meeting with students.
Health Care
- How can California improve the working conditions of community college adjuncts?
Panel says worsening circumstances call for novel solutions By Michael Burke of EdSource.org (Article republished with permission of EdSource) The second class status of part-time faculty at California’s community colleges is a decades-long problem that demands novel solutions. With conditions… Read more: How can California improve the working conditions of community college adjuncts? - Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty
Health care benefits have emerged as a battleground for adjunct instructors, who are critical to the mission of California’s community colleges to educate about 1.5 million of the state’s most vulnerable students. The 72 local districts that govern the… Read more: Health care benefits key battleground for California’s adjunct community college faculty
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