Published in the July 22, 2016 Santa Maria Times. “The past is the best prophet of the future,” wrote English poet Lord Byron, and nothing in our past speaks more poignantly to this than the Nazi Holocaust. But like many other important historical events, it appears to me students coming out of our local K-12 […]
Read More →Published in the May 27, 2016 Santa Maria Times. When Gov. Jerry Brown signed California’s $15-per-hour minimum wage law, he called the landmark legislation a matter of economic justice. The millions of workers who will benefit from this increase will certainly agree. At Allan Hancock College I deal with many students who come from poor […]
Read More →Published in the April 28, 2016 Santa Maria Times. In July 2015 I devoted a column to the Friedrichs vs. CTA case, which was on its way to the Supreme Court and hanging over the heads of public-sector unions like the sword of Damocles. The case revolved around a suit brought by some K-12 teachers […]
Read More →Some nice news: We learned yesterday that we as a bargaining unit have used up all of the Professional Development Conference Funds available to us for fiscal year 2015—2016. This is important because there was a sense in some quarters that we part-timers were not interested in attending conferences and this money set aside for […]
Read More →The Part-Time Faculty Association of Allan Hancock College was awarded a First Place Membership Growth Award at the 2016 California Federation of Teachers Convention. The PFA had a 27 percent increase.
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