It seems like every semester comes with its own set of challenges, seemingly more daunting every year. In fact, crisis-all-the-time is our new normal, the zeitgeist of our era. While it would be easy to point to our current national political climate as the central...
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As I pondered the theme for this month’s issue of the Chaparral – marketing – I simply could not escape how our current consumer culture, based on the use of mass marketing campaigns, serves to isolate and alienate workers and the labor movement from American society....
A recent poll released by PDK shows widespread discontent among teachers nationally. According to the annual poll done by this association of teachers, administrators, and other educational professionals, six out of ten teachers report feeling dissatisfied,...
This summer, California Federation of Teachers (CFT) President Jeff Freitas and CFT Community College Council President Jim Mahler testified before the Board of Trustees of California’s online-only community college. In that testimony (and in an accompanying letter),...
As we head toward 2020, there are two tax measures that may be on the November ballot. The first of which, the Schools and Communities First (insert link: https://schoolsandcommunitiesfirst.org) measure, seeks to reform Proposition 13 by allowing the state to...
This is who we are now: a country where the criminal rich brazenly buy their kids’ ways into elite colleges while the sons and daughters of ordinary Americans scrape and claw to gain admission and then struggle to pay for the skyrocketing costs of higher education. ...
