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Save the Date! Please join us on July 19, 2014 at 6 p.m. More information will be posted soon. Stay tuned!
Join with colleagues to stand up for professional working
conditions to ensure optimal student learning conditions!
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.
SFPTFPA 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.
Useful Links, Books and Information
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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.
Florida Specific: http://www.deltacostproject.org/sites/default/files/products/deltacost_2010_stateprofile_FL.pdf
Telling Facts About Adjuncts:
http://www.bestcollegesonline.com/blog/2012/09/17/25-telling-facts-about-adjunct-faculty-today
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
National Summit at the NFM Foundation page
http://www.nfmfoundation.org/Summit-Resources.html
Help Distribute our Flyer! Download PDF here.
How to reach us
By email If you would like to get involved in the work of the SFPTFPA, please send us an email at kimglaffont@gmail.com.