Part-time Faculty News
There are some new things to be aware of regarding appealing unemployment denials for part-time faculty. The state has recently made an online portal available. This portal makes it much easier to access and upload documents (and eliminates the need for faxing or postal mailing docs to the court) relating …
CFT, one of CCFT’s affiliates does workshops for PT faculty applying for unemployment. Here is a recorded version of workshop. When we can resume face to face, we can schedule CFT to do a live one at Cuesta if there is enough interest. This is an hour and 20 min …
PT Faculty can get compensated for their work on Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) such as entering them into eLumen. Here’s a link to the form. Thank-you to CCFT secretary Julie Rose Hoffman for making this available as a fillable PDF! This compensation is outlined in the contract in article 4.19 …
CoR = Council of Reps CCFT = Cuesta College Federation of Teachers PT = Part Time CCFT CoR meets the 4th Thursday of each month (except holidays) from 3:00-5:00 pm. The first semester we implemented payment of the PT CoR reps was for Fall 2018, and those payments were made …
Check out this article posted on the CFT web site. This is a great resource: Part-timer Pandemic Relief
AFT offers student debt clinics for affiliate members. To learn more about how AFT can help manage or even reduce yours or a family member’s student debt, start by visiting the following website: AFT Student Debt Clinics CCFT has hosted a Student Debt Clinic in the past, and with enough …
The Union has seen an increase in the number of investigations by the District against faculty. The link to the Memo below details your rights if you find yourself in such a situation. WHEN YOU CAN DEMAND A UNION REP AT A MEETING
CFA Lecturer Members, All part-time lecturers with contingent contracts are legally entitled to Unemployment Insurance benefits every term break (winter, spring and summer). You are eligible even if you have signed an appointment letter for the next quarter or year. According to the law, you do NOT have “reasonable assurance …
PT Faculty CCFT has demanded that the District bargain over the impact of eLumen BEFORE its implementation. This software requires that every CRN in every course being assessed submit data for each student. This will require PT faculty to compile SLO data for their courses, for which they are not …
