FACCC is advocating for the following priorities on behalf of our faculty members who are ensuring California's Community Colleges continue to provide high-quality and accessible education during this public health crisis:
Budget Priorities
Protect funding for California Community Colleges while prioritizing access so no student is turned away during an economic recession.
Increase the proposed Cost-of-living-adjustment (COLA) to 3.84 percent to align with the K-12 proposed COLA.
Increase funding for part-time faculty health benefits and compensation during and after the public health crisis.
Remove the performance-based funding element of the Student Centered Funding Formula.
Reallocate Calbright funding to increase investment in the CVC/OEI and boost online education funding for existing colleges.
Reject the proposal to make the COLA contingent on the creation or implementation of a policy proposal.
FACCC joined the other faculty groups, including members of the Council of Faculty Organizations (CoFO), for our 2021-22 budget lobbying.
AB 1326 (Arambula)would require county human services agencies to designate a staff liaison as a point of contact for community college counselors.
Co-Sponsoring
AB 375 (Medina)would increase the percentage of hours part-time faculty may teach to up to 85% of the hours per week as a full-time employee with comparable duties.
AB 1269 (Garcia)would require the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office to conduct a study to collect and report part-time faculty parity data from each community college district, report the data, and identify specific policy and fiscal recommendations that would enable the California Community Colleges to achieve a compensation schedule that achieves pay equity for part-time faculty by January 1, 2027.
AB 1432 (Low)would make the California Online Community College Act inoperative at the end of the 2022–23 academic year thereby eliminating Calbright.
