The 72nd annual California Federation of Teachers Convention took place from March 21–23, 2014, at the Manhattan Beach Marriot Hotel in Manhattan Beach. This year the Part-Time Faculty Association sent its largest delegation ever: Five delegates, including PFA President Mark Miller, Secretary-Treasurer Rich Baker, and Executive Board members-at-large Danielle Blanchard (Drama Department), Lisa McKinley (Counseling), […]

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Published in the March 28, 2014 Santa Maria Times. In a previous column, I noted that students at Allan Hancock College are often nonplussed when asked to analyze a work of literature or an essay. Writing a summary is not difficult for them, but writing an analysis appears to be a task they haven’t often […]

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