No Confidence Vote

Negotiating Updates:

• 2012 Tentative Agreement
• One-time 2% stipend proposal (Accepted by faculty vote, April 6, 2012)
• Adjunct Parity Pay Memorandum of Understanding
• Adjunct advancement for librarians, counselors, and instructional specialists Memorandum of Understanding

Student Success Task Force Information & Advocacy Positions:

• View PBS video
• http://www.gavfaculty.com/GCFAAdvocacy.html

Legislative Alert:

Legislators are proposing bills which would drastically change the mission of Community Colleges without public input, limiting enrollment and offerings and running things out of the capitol rather than through local and acccountable Boards of Trustees.

Here are links to more information.

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_20183618/leah-halper-community-college-reforms-will-hurt-those

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/stop-the-student-success-task-force/#

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZUrKxwsjE

If you'd like to write legislators, here is info, especially a very helpful Bill Analysis to tell you what they're planning: http://www.gavfaculty.com/GCFAAdvocacy.html

Here are key emails of key legislators:

Letters should be addressed to Senators Carol Liu (chair of Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education) and Alan Lowenthal (chair Senate Education) and Assembly Members Marty Block (chair of Assembly Higher Education) and Susan Bonilla (chair of Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education) and cc the members of the committees:

Subcommittee No. 1 on Education

Members
Senator Liu (Chair),   Senator Huff and Senator Wright

Senate Education

Senator Alan Lowenthal (Chair)
Senator Sharon Runner (Vice Chair)
Senator Elaine Alquist
Senator Sam Blakeslee
Senator Loni Hancock
Senator Robert Huff
Senator Carol Liu
Senator Curren Price
Senator Joe Simitian
Senator Juan Vargas

http://ahed.assembly.ca.gov/membersstaff

http://abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sub2educationfinance

Contact information for each member of the Hartnell College Board of Trustees:

Pat Donohue:   donohue.pat@gmail.com
Demetrio Pruneda:
Elia Gonzalez-Castro:  elia85@aol.com
Candi DePauw:  CANDI@razzolink.com
Bill Freeman:  wwjf1961@aol.com
Ray Montemayor: raymontemayor@gmail.com
Erica Padilla-Chavez: ericapadillachavez@sbcglobal.net

If you haven't already sent us your contact information (cell phone number, home phone number, mailing address and home email), please do so now: hartnellfaculty@yahoo.com