Category: Meet the 76%
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PCCFFAP is composed of three classes of employees — Academic Professionals, Full-Time (or job-secure) Instructors, and “Part-Time” (or job-insecure) Instructors. How did people in all three job categories come to be in the same bargaining unit? An interesting story can be told …. To find out, go to: PCCFFAP History.
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by Melisa Crosby I started as part-timer at PCC fresh out of PSU in the summer of 1990 after a wonderful spring term spent student teaching in the long-defunct Refugee ESL Program housed at the old Ross Island Center. I worked there for a number of years, gaining valuable experience working with students from…
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by Cody Luff I am sitting on an academic time bomb. One that has been ticking since I accepted a temporary position as a full-time faculty member at the Sylvania campus. I have been an adjunct for six years, rolling up and down the I-5 corridor with three bags in my backseat. One for my…
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by Chris Brooks I earned my PhD in history in 2010. During graduate school my cohort maintained a sense of gallows humor about our job prospects; the already abysmal statistics about tenure track (TT) placements grew even worse as the financial crisis took hold, and the fact that we at an excellent university that was…
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Meet the 76%! We asked PCC job-insecure faculty to answer three questions for adjunct awareness week.. Here are their answers. Introducing: Heather Mayer What do love about teaching at PCC? As someone who was born and raised in Portland, I know how important PCC is to our community. I love that we serve a diverse…
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In 2013-2014, 76.5% of the instructors employed at Portland Community College were part-time instructors who are paid poorly—less than half the annual pay of nearly all full-time instructors—with little or no job security, limited access to benefits, and a general feeling of being second-class employees. We are not paid for committee work, office hours, or…
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by Jessica Martin As I haul a Costco-sized bag of chocolate truffles to help celebrate my son’s elementary school teachers and staff this week, I’m reminded that I, a college educator, never actually considered myself a part of teacher appreciation week. For some reason, I associated this week with preschool and K-12 education. My notion…
Michele Marden for FFAP Executive VP 