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Contract Negotiations: The Next Challenge We Face

The weeks leading up to last Thursday’s vote to ratify, or not, the amended Academic Senate bylaws passed by the Senate at its meeting on April 27th have been fraught […]
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NCCFT President Frank Frisenda’s Statement at the Bylaws Ratification Meeting

Hi. My name is Frank Frisenda and I am the President of the NCCFT. If you feel confident that you understand this issue, then vote accordingly. It is unfortunate that […]
BOT Watch: The Board Passes a Budget May 9, 2017

The Board of Trustees opened the meeting by approving the minutes from April 18 and then moved directly into what became a lengthy and somewhat complicated discussion of the budget for […]
Taking One Step Forward, Not Two Steps Back

On May 5th, we sent an email to the NCCFT Executive Board informing them that contract negotiations have begun. Under normal circumstances, we would have allowed your department representatives to […]
Report from Detroit: The AFT Higher Education Conference

The NCCFT Executive Committee is back from the AFT’s Higher Education Organizing Conference in Detroit, where we had a chance to listen to some meaningful and motivating talks on the state […]
BOT Watch: The NCC Board of Trustees Meeting – April 18, 2017

(This post has been edited to correct errors in the summary of the Speakers List.) At the beginning of the meeting, the Board approved promotions to Associate and Full Professor. […]
Voting Yes on the GRTF’s Proposal Will Not End the Process

As we said in our previous post, the changes to the Senate bylaws being proposed by the Governance Review Task Force (GRTF) will significantly alter the way shared governance is […]
The NCCFT’s Statement on The Governance Review Task Force’s Proposed Revisions to the Senate Bylaws

In an email dated April 7th, the Academic Senate Executive Committee (ASEC) distributed to the entire campus the Governance Review Task Force’s (GRTF) draft revision of Articles I-III of the […]