CCA PRIORITIES
The One-Tier Model has Already Been Implemented Successfully
What does a One-Tier System look like?
A One-Tier Model for Community Colleges
“The Vancouver Model” has become a possible blueprint for a one-tiered contract. The Vancouver Community College Faculty Association’s contract offers what many believe is the most comprehensive model of faculty equality in existence today.
Use ctrl+F or cmmd +F to find keywords (e.g.: seniority, pay schedule, sick leaves, etc.) in the contract.
RESEARCH
CCA’s One-tier Task Force has compiled the following articles to help our members and the public better understand the current system and the possible changes that need to be made.
“A Unified Faculty Model: The Remedy for Decades of Failed Education ‘Reform’ in the California Community Colleges”
by Debbie Klein, Department of Social Science, Gavilan College — March 31, 2024
“This paper illustrates that transitioning from a two-tiered to a nontiered—unified faculty—model will better serve the students, colleges, and state of California. [. . .] This model is based on faculty and collegewide unity as opposed to the current structure that has produced a divided faculty, inequitable service to students, and stagnant or diminishing student outcomes.”
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“Undoing Overreliance on Part-time Faculty Could Reverse Decline of California Community Colleges”
by Debbie Klein, EdSource — Department of Social Science, Gavilan College — April 27, 2024
In this brief and accessible EdSource commentary, Debbie Klein summarizes the case for a one-tier faculty model. She argues persuasively that the adjunctification of higher education has correlated with declining student success and poorer workplace quality for faculty, and has only endured because the source of the problem has been hidden from public view.
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“Resisting Decades of ‘Reform’ Movement Disruption in the California Community Colleges”
by Debbie Klein, President, FACCC — Department of Social Science, Gavilan College — Spring 2021
Although this article does not specifically mention a one-tier faculty model, the primary obstacle to a one-tier model has long been inadequate state funding. In this essay, Debbie Klein identifies a coordinated, decades-long attempt to disrupt and defund public education. By situating our efforts at a unified faculty model within this context, the one tier model can be understood as a part of a program of resistance against a program designed to starve colleges of necessary funds and thereby ultimately to privatize higher education.
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Discover the possibilities
Resolving the systemic problems within academia caused by the two-tier system requires complex and creative approaches. Over the past forty years, the issues have been debated with bargaining and legislation attempting to solve some of the myriad inequities that exist. The following have become some of the core historical resources that attempt to educate those who could make changes:
“The Use of Part-Time Faculty in California Community Colleges: Issues and Impact.” Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Spring 1996.
“Part-Time Faculty: A Principled Perspective.” Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Spring 2002.
“Updating ‘Part-Time Faculty: A Principled Perspective.’” Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Feb. 2015.
“Part-time Faculty: Equity, Rights, and Roles in Governance.” Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, 2024.