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The Advocate, newsletter of the San Mateo Community College Federation of Teachers, AFT Local 1493, is available in .pdf format-- by clicking on the links for the specific issues below. Links to supplemental information related to specific articles in an issue are listed under the link for that issue. (To read .pdf files, see the bottom of this page for details on downloading Adobe Acrobat Reader.)
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May 2013
In this issue:
- Special focus on MOOCs:
- Contract negotiations under way for 2013-2014
- PETF report: SLOs & distance ed. courses
- President's View: Administrators should be evaluated by faculty
- CFT Convention highlights community vs. privatization
- Trustees discuss district elections
- Workload survey: Faculty frustrated with increased, less-rewarding work
- Board may dissolve KCSM-TV & sell airwaves to wireless company
- Retirees planning to see Black Watch at ACT
- AFT 1493 awards first annual scholarships
- AFT 1493 is turning 50!
March 2013
In this issue:
- The Affordable Care Act and SMCCCD faculty
- Workload survey: data analysis begins
- Help improve the contract for part-time faculty
- CSM Academic Senate report
- Keep KCSM-TV in public hands
- Confronting the “New Normal”: Corporatization
- ACCJC’s controversial record under Beno
- Retiree’s group planning three social events
February 2013
The Advocate - 36.4
February 2013
In this issue:
- Faculty participation vital on workload survey
- Part-time faculty focus groups to gather input on part-timers’ concerns
- Opinion: MOOCs are wrong product for community colleges
- Academic calendar set for 2013-14
- Performance Evaluation Task Force update
- AFT 1493 to fund two student scholarships
- Questions growing about ACCJC’s processes & accountability
- Accreditors’ effects on CCSF could be felt statewide
- Letter: Thanks for the AFT 1493 Email list
December 2012
The Advocate - 36.3
December 2012
In this issue:
- AFTers’ campaigning contributes to historic victories in Calif. elections
- Democracy in action in CSM’s Building 10
- “Guerilla” tablers reach Skyline students
- Dems’ supermajority provides historic opportunity to reverse austerity budget
- Introducing Salumeh Eslamieh, Cañada’s new Executive Committe Rep.
- Join AFT’s COPE to help elect faculty-friendly Board members
- KCSM broadcast spectrum may be sold to wireless companies
- Repeal laws that unfairly deny Social Security benefits to teachers
- Advocate survey: faculty are mixed on reading online vs. print
October 2012
The Advocate - 36.2
October 2012
In this issue:
- Part-time faculty looking for “parity” with comparable full-time pay rates
- CFT recommendations for California state ballot propositions
- AFTer’s email prompts criminal investigation
- Lessons of the Chicago teachers’ strike
- Performance Evaluation Task Force begins work
- Introducing new Executive Committee members Lin Bowie and Sarah Powers
- Daughter of CSM instructor wins AFL-CIO college scholarship
September 2012
The Advocate - 36.1
September 2012
In this issue:
- Contract settlement and ratification vote: two huge successes for the union
- Goal: Raise all salaries to top 3 or 4 in Bay 10
- “ACCJC Gone Wild”: In-depth report takes on ACCJC
- Meet Michelle Kern, new CSM Part Timer Rep.
- Prop 32 claims to be “campaign finance reform” but is corporate power grab
- Prop 30 will fund education, with 90% of revenue from wealthy taxpayers
- Are you an AFT 1493 member or an “agency fee payer”?
- Analyzing the impacts of the Pension Reform Act
- Sale of KCSM-TV still in limbo
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