RAMPAGE March 4, 2015 Vol. CXXVI I S S U E 3
Student-Run Newspaper of Fresno City College
RAMS CRASH OUT
Coach Ed Madec, as the Men’s basketball team loses to Foothill College, 72-64, at the Fresno City College Gymnasium on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015. Photo/Ram Reyes
PLIGHT OF ADJUNCT EQUITY TASK FORCE SCRAMBLES TO ALLOCATE FUNDS FACULTY EXPOSED BY PATRICK FORREST
News Editor pforrest@therampageonline.com
“Even though we have the same educational background and academic achievements, we get paid significantly less.”
-Kellen Prandini
Part time Anthropology intstructor
Fresno City College faculty -- parttime and full-time alike, participated in the first annual National Adjunct Walkout Day outside of the Business Education building, Feb. 25 to raise awareness about the disparity in the treatment of full and part-time faculty employed by the State Center Community College District.. Throughout the day, multiple faculty members gathered at a booth outside of the Business Education Building and handed out information to all of those that would stop. The teachers union, State Center Federation of Teachers, organized the event. “Part time instructors don’t get the same perks as the full time instructors, said Sheila Martin, business instructor who is employed fulltime. “But they make less than half or what the full timers make. Yet they have to have the same qualifications, the same backgrounds and the same
l SEE NATIONAL WALKOUT DAY ON PAGE 2
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BY CRESENCIO RODRIGUEZ DELGADO Editor-In-Chief crodrigezdelgado@therampageonline.com
News of additional funds being added to the $1.3 million that Fresno City College received last year from the $79 million allocated for college equity is creating pressure for the task force charged with deciding how best to apportion the original grant. FCC Vice-President of Student Services, Chris Villa announced the new funding during the first meeting by the task force in the Old Administration Building on Feb. 27. “We are going to get more,” Villa said. “On top of the $1.3 million we got this year.” If the additional funds are approved on July 1, the college will receive a greater allocation for the year ahead, Villa said. But members of the task force are facing “a good problem” -- pressure and severe time constraints to apportion the money and spend it wisely. “We are under a lot of pressure
“We are under a lot of pressure to do this, and we want to do it right.”
-Chris Villa
Vice President of Student Services
l SEE EQUITY PLAN ON PAGE 5
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