Advocating for fair wages, benefits,

and working conditions to ensure optimal student learning.

 

About Us

 

The South Florida Part-time Faculty Professional Association advocates for the interests of part-time faculty members in institutions of higher learning in South Florida. We provide part-time faculty members, including graduate students and full-time non-tenure track faculty members, with a real and virtual meeting place where members can gather to offer support, share information and work together on strategies to improve higher education by improving the working conditions of the majority of its faculty. We also provide guidance and resources to help such efforts. The Association works to improve higher education in South Florida by advancing and protecting the rights of all current and future part-time faculty members.To that end, our focus for the immediate future is to provide a means by which part-time faculty can communicate with each other and strategize on how best to bring about reform.

 

SFPTFA acknowledges the assistance from NFM in answering our inquiries and providing helpful informational resources. We also gratefully acknowledge permission granted by the Ohio Part-time Faculty Association (OPTFA) in providing a model for website setup.

 

See our SFPTFA Facebook page also at https://www.facebook.com/South-Florida-Part-Time-Faculty-Association-302214843236572/

 

Books to Read:

Regarding changing composition of faculty and implications, unions, etc.: Kezar, A. (Ed.). (2012). Embracing non-tenure track faculty: Changing campuses for the new faculty majority.

 

Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education by Joe Berry. Published in 2005 by Monthly Review Press.

 

Please take a look at Joe's website: http://www.reclaimingtheivorytower.org

 

Equality: Overcoming the Two-Tier System. Hoeller, Keith (Ed.). (2014).  Published  byVanderbilt University Press (TN).

See http://cpfa.org/keith-koeller-editor-has-an-important-new-book-recently-publishe-take-note/

 

National Summit at the NFM Foundation page

http://www.nfmfoundation.org/Summit-Resources.html

 

SEIU Faculty Forward page

http://seiufacultyforward.org/

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Adjuncts in Florida

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"Hillsborough community college adjunct faculty overwhelmingly vote to join SEIU" by Jonathan Huskey. Nov. 23, 2016:
SEIU/Faculty Forward  website. See

http://seiufacultyforward.org/2016/11/hillsborough-community-college-adjunct-faculty-overwhelmingly-vote-to-join-seiu/

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"Adjunct professors at HCC hope union vote brings higher pay" by Claire McNeil.  Tampa Bay Times. Dec. 12, 2016

See http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/adjunct-professors-at-hillsborough-community-college-hope-union-vote/2305913

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"Adjunct professors to vote on joining a union" by Anastasia Dawson.  Tampa Bay Times.  May 17, 2016.
See http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/college/adjunct-professors-at-hcc-to-vote-on-joining-a-union/2277751

 

"Adjuncts say they are the underclass."

See http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Adjunct-Professors-Say-They-are-in-Academic-Underclass-290840921.html

Feb. 5, 2015: NewsChannel 6/NBC television report on MDC and BC adjuncts

 

Stockfish, J. "USF rally showcases reliance on low-paid, part-time faculty." Tampa Tribune. Feb. 25, 2015 

http://tbo.com/news/education/usf-rally-showcases-reliance-on-low-paid-part-time-faculty-20150225/

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Faculty Forward Florida Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/facultyforwardfl/

Faculty Forward Network Jacksonville Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/FFNJax/

 

Useful Links, Books and Information

 

Precaricorps: Agents for Higher Ed at http://precaricorps.org/programs/
Learn about New Faculty Majority:

The National Coalition for Adjunct and Contingent Faculty: http://www.newfacultymajority.info/equity/

The CUNY Adjunct Project:

http://cunyadjunctproject.org/

 

Adjunct Action Town Hall:

http://adjunctaction.org/town-hall/

 

Florida State University’s LeRoy Collins Institute (LCI)

http://collinsinstitute.fsu.edu/content/press-release-tougher-choices-shaping-floridas-future

 

Regarding the changing composition of higher education faculty: http://www.thechangingfaculty.org

 

Regarding the costs and finances in higher education: http://www.deltacostproject.org

This website is amazing and has data that can be downloaded as well as several reports.

 

Telling Facts About Adjuncts:

http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/09/17/25-telling-facts-about-adjunct-faculty-today

 

Survey on adjunct working conditions by Coalition on the Adjunct Workforce:

http://academicworkforce.org/CAW_portrait_2012.pdf    

 

What they are doing in Colorado:
https://sites.google.com/site/coloradoadjunctswiki/home/equal-pay-bill-2014/hb-14-1154-update-and-history