Depts Taking Action to Defend & Grow City College–Now It’s Your Turn

Library and English were two departments decimated by Chancellor Martin & the current Trustees layoffs last semester. 6 tenured or tenure-track English faculty, and 2 tenured or tenure-track Library faculty were fired last May in a historic violation of tenure rights that entailed the lay off of 18 part-time English faculty & 15 part-time librarians. English lost nearly 40% of its faculty, and the result? They’ve been turning away students by the hundreds this semester–this is a travesty.

In response, Library and English joined Social Sciences in taking action this past weekend–they organized their colleagues to show up and distribute literature for Prop O & your Trustee candidates Vick Chung, Anita Martinez, Susan Solomon, and Adolfo Velasquez.  

Now it’s your turn. If you want a dept & college that is capable of truly serving our students, if you want higher salaries, job security, & tenure rights, then it’s time to do your part to bring visibility to your fight for more revenue & better leadership at City College. Let’s stop playing defense, & start playing offense. We have 20 short days to make an impact before voters receive their ballots in the mail, so the time to blanket the city in your message is now.

Email Alan D’Souza to schedule your Department Campaign Day now: adsouza@aft2121.org & view this site for the days to claim & opportunities to engage: https://bit.ly/ccsfWINS

Fall Evaluations Agreement

Our bargaining team has settled an evaluation agreement for Fall 2022 – and just in time. The agreement keeps some of our important wins for remote classes, protects our safety during this continuing COVID epidemic. Highlights below, and you can read the full agreement here.

• Committees can be one or two members to evaluate PT faculty, and two or three members to evaluate FT faculty. Where possible, committees should be made up of members working in the same modality as the evaluatee.

• Committee members who are working only online/remote cannot be forced to observe in-person.

• All evaluatees can choose self-evaluation, if their previous eval was peer or peer-management with an overall satisfactory rating.

• Evaluations of classroom instructors shall use student surveys, with some exceptions such as low-level ESL.

• Evaluatees choose which classes are surveyed. They can choose to limit that to one class, or they can request more than one class be surveyed. The exception is for tenure review evaluations, where all classes should be surveyed.

• When in-person or IOTL classes are surveyed, use the student surveys in our contract.

• When remote classes are surveyed, use the shorter surveys from our COVID agreement.

• Evaluation criteria return to our regular pre-COVID contract criteria as listed in our contract, with one exception. For faculty who are working exclusively in remote mode, committees shall give one overall ranking per section rather than rank each line.