The PFA will be holding its semi-annual membership meeting on Thursday, April 10th from 3:00 to 6:00 pm at the PFA office. Food and refreshments provided by Woody’s Butcher Block will be served. Please join us. Click here for further details.
Read More →Read The New York Times article about Mary-Faith Cerasoli, and adjunct professor, who is now homeless.
Read More →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), […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →Published in the February 28, 2014 Santa Maria Times. The Flood,” a student insisted, “is what killed off the dinosaurs. They lived alongside Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden 6,000 years ago, when Earth was created. Evolution is only a theory.” She was a member of one of my English 101 classes at […]
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