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Posted on May 5, 2020 by AFT 2121

Special Facilities Committee Meeting

Tuesday, May 5th, 9:00 am to discuss Real Estate Asset Report

This meeting was originally scheduled for Monday, May 4th and was Zoom Bombed.

Anyone concerned about CCSF leveraging its real estate should join.
Zoom link: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/s/95297793660

Solidarity Gathering in the New Normal

AFT 2121 invites faculty, staff, and students to gather on Zoom Thursday 5/14 at 5pm to share music, poetry, art, and stories from our COVID -19 reality. (Watch for Zoom Link soon!)

We will offer each other kindness, inspiration, and joy as we hold space for the suffering beyond our control. Since we could all use some cheering up, we encourage creativity in your visual Zoom presence: costumes, backgrounds, or visual art.

Mark your calendar for Delegate Assembly Meeting
Tuesday, May 12, 3-5pm

Agenda and Zoom link on its way!

Summer & Fall Schedules, Impact Bargaining

Administration has failed to respond to some of our questions, or even schedule a next meeting with us. However, we have made a bit of progress.

CCSF is planning to offer training over the summer to help faculty learn Canvas so that they can teach remotely if need be in the fall. Details are not yet final, but they’re working to offer multiple sessions of an 8-hour workshop.

Faculty have been worried that the move to Canvas would result in the cancellation of some non-credit classes. But Tom Boegel said on Friday that remote classes can still be taught outside Canvas as long as we can consider them “correspondence” classes. We will work to clarify what qualifies as a correspondence class.

Administration has also signaled their intent to plan some face-to-face classes and student services for fall. We may have to move some or even all of them online. But planning a face-to-face schedule will help enrollment and give us something to work from.

District data on class cuts and cuts to faculty staggering
To inform impact negotiations, AFT requested information about class cuts and their impact on faculty jobs. The results are staggering.

Class cuts
Over the two year period, Fall 2018 through Spring 2020:

Credit sections declined from 2860 to 2294, or 20%
Noncredit sections declined from 720 to 504, or 30%.

Job losses for faculty
Over the two year period, Fall 2018 through Spring 2020:

The number of PT faculty fell from 879 to 689, or by 190, or 22%.
The number of FT faculty fell from 591 to 520, or by 71, or 12%.
Aggregate, full-time equivalent faculty, or FTEF, declined by
- 9% for FT faculty inload assignments
- 62% for FT overload assignments
- 26% for PT assignments

Overall salaries
These dramatic cuts in classes offered and faculty jobs has also led to a significant decline in the portion of the salary budget going to faculty at CCSF. If we look at the six year period, FY 2013/14 through FY 2018/19, the percentage of CCSF salary dollars paid to faculty decreased from 64% to 60%, which amounts to a difference of $5.6 million in FY 2018/19 alone.

Our Perspective
What our community needs is more classes, not more cuts. Community colleges, including CCSF, can play a major role in economic recovery by educating and training students and employing more faculty. We should all fight for more investment in education especially in this severe economic downturn. The real solution for CCSF’s economic woes, as well as California’s, is to grow community college enrollment by increasing revenue at the state and local level.

AFT LOCAL 2121 AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS TO AFAM AND LALS

In support of students who are enrolled in the African-American Studies Department and the Latin-American and Latinx Studies Department, AFT 2121 Executive Board approved the award of $1,000 each to two students from each department.

AFT2121’s Affirmative Action Task Force Committee collaborated with AFAM and LSLA faculty, to form a scholarship subcommittee consisting of Dr. Patricia Nunley, Dr. Ramona Coates and Dr. Edgar Torres and Yvonne Webb. Friday, May 1. 2020, they announced that scholarship applications were available and due by May 8, 2020.

Application requirements include:

(1) Write a reflective essay to the following prompt and attach/send with the application
African American and Latinx individuals continue to be disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As future leaders who are members of these people groups, you possess unique knowledge that predictably can offer solutions on how to effectively respond to this global crisis. Using your lived experiences, academic knowledge, and the current related data, please write an academic reflective paper on how you would address this phenomenon. The page limit is 1-3 pages, typed double-spaced, and 12-point font-size.

(2) Commitment to attend AFT Local 2121 meetings
Attend 1 to 3 AFT 2121 union meetings (e.g. Affirmative Action Task Force, Executive Board or District Assembly Meeting) during Fall 2020.

(3) Submit your application May 8, 2020
Send your application and reflective essay to:
Dr. Edgar Torres
Chair African American and Latin Amerian and Latinx Studies Departments
Email address: etorres@ccsf.edu