On January 10th, 2022, Governor Newsom delivered welcome news to part-time faculty with a proposal of $200 million in ongoing funding specifically earmarked to provide healthcare to adjunct faculty and their families. Presently, the statewide fund set up to support part-time healthcare provides just $490,000 per year to cover adjunct healthcare for all 72 community [...]

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The High Costs of Declining College Enrollments, by Jim Miller
Jan 31, 2022
Classes start today at San Diego City College, and while I am always happy to meet a new group of students, the unfortunate fact is that there are increasingly fewer of them at our colleges. City College is up a tad in terms of enrollment compared to other colleges in the region but, overall, the [...]
Murderous Inequality is the Central Fact of Our Time, by Jim Miller
Jan 31, 2022
We are beginning to see some glimmers of hope that the Omicron wave is cresting in California and the nation at large. While there will surely be more suffering and chaos in hospitals, schools, and workplaces in the coming weeks, many medical experts are speculating that we may finally be on the brutal road from [...]
San Diego Workers Make Their Voices Heard
Jan 31, 2022
There’s been a lot of talk in the national media and elsewhere recently about the new worker militancy. From #Striketober to #Strikesgiving to #Strikemas, many inside and outside the American labor movement have been celebrating the emergence of an ongoing wave of rebellion in the workplace. Everywhere from hospitals and factories to colleges, workers have [...]