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CFA Bargaining Team

August 12, 2010
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CFA Bargaining Team 2010

The Bargaining Team is responsible for conducting all collective bargaining negotiations on behalf of CFA with the Trustees of the CSU.  Members are listed below.

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Andy Merrifield
Political Science

July 19, 2010
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Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield has been a member of the political science department at Sonoma State for twenty-five years.

Merrifield serves as Associate Vice President, North, of the California Faculty Association.

His areas of speciality are the American presidency, budgetary politics, state and local government and political methodology.

Merrifield joined CFA soon after joining the faculty. Before teaching at Sonoma he was active in SEIU and CTA, the former in local government and thelatter at a community college. He also worked as the sole staff member for an independent union in local government.

At Sonoma Merrifield served as the PAC/Leg person on the executive board, then chapter vice president; he is now in his fourthterm as chapter president. He currently serves on the CFA bargaining committee.

CFA Board of Directors-Associate Vice President, North
Member, CFA Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy Committee
CFA Chapter President, Sonoma
Co-Chair, CFA Presidents' Council
Vice Chair, CFA Bargaining Team
(707) 664-3946 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Caroline Bordinaro
Library Science

July 20, 2010
Member, CFA Librarians' Committee
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
CFA Chapter Assembly Delegate, Dominguez Hills
(310) 243-2084 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Leslie Bryan
Theatre Arts

July 27, 2010
CFA Board of Directors-Associate Vice President-Lecturers, South
Member, CFA Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy Committee
CFA Chapter Lecturers' Representative, San Bernardino
Co-Chair, CFA African American Caucus
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
(909) 537-5877 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Cecil Canton
Criminal Justice

July 19, 2010
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Cecil Canton

Dr. Cecil E. Canton is a tenured professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at CSU Sacramento. He is the California Faculty Association Associate Vice President and Chair of the Council for Affirmative Action.

Dr. Canton is the co-author/editor of The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), a book dealing with the issues of diversity, identity and authenticity in higher education.

Professor Canton is a member of the Membership Advisory Committee and the Higher Education Sub-Committee of the National Education Association (NEA).

Prof. Canton was the recipient of the CFA 2005 Mario Savio Equal Rights Award in recognition of his leadership in the promotion of Equal Rights in the California State University.

CFA Board of Directors-Associate Vice President, Affirmative Action
CFA Chapter Chair, Affirmative Action Committee, Sacramento
Chair, CFA Council for Affirmative Action
Member, CFA Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy Committee
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
916-278-4344 Phone
Email contact form
Person

George Diehr
Business Administration

July 20, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
Member, CFA Health & Retirement Benefits Committee
(858) 792-1560 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Fred Hanover
Athletics

August 3, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
Chair, CFA Coaches Caucus
760-750-7110 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Chris Haynes
Geography

July 19, 2010
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CFA Board of Directors-Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy
Chair, CFA Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy Committee
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
(707) 826-3915 Phone
Email contact form
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Larry Hendel

July 20, 2010
CFA Northern California Organizing Director
Staff Contact, CFA Presidents' Council
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
510-507-2603 Phone
Email contact form
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Elizabeth Hoffman
English

July 19, 2010
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Elizabeth Hoffman
CFA Chapter Lecturers' Representative-Alternate, Long Beach
310-293-0755 Phone
Email contact form
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Jonathan Karpf
Anthropology

July 19, 2010
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Jonathan Karpf has been a Lecturer at San José State University since 1987. He is a biological anthropologist whose main interests are human genetics and evolution, alcoholism, the behavior, systematics, and ecology of primates, Mesoamerican prehistory, and social justice in Guatemala.

He serves on the CFA Board of Directors as Associate Vice President-Lecturers, North.

CFA Board of Directors-Associate Vice President-Lecturers, North
CFA Chapter Lecturers' Representative, San Jose
Member, CFA Health & Retirement Benefits Committee
Member, CFA Representation Committee
408-398-9449 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Mark Karplus
Chemistry/Biochemistry

July 27, 2010
Member, CFA Bylaws and Policy Committee
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
CFA Chapter Lecturers' Representative, East Bay
CFA Chapter Faculty Rights Co-Chair, East Bay
(510) 885-3449 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Susan Meisenhelder
English

August 3, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
Email contact form
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Edward Purcell
CFA Bargaining Consultant

August 3, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
760-325-9366 Phone
Email contact form
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Hank Reichman
History

August 3, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
(510) 885-3207 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Kathy Sheffield

July 20, 2010
CFA Interim Director of Representation
CFA Representation Specialist
Maritime Academy (Faculty Rights)
Staff Contact, CFA African American Caucus
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
510-421-0555 Phone
Email contact form
Person

Aimee Shreck

July 20, 2010
CFA Research Specialist
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
Staff Contact, CFA Green Committee
916-441-4848 Phone
916-441-3513 Fax
Email contact form
Person

Lillian Taiz
History

July 19, 2010
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Lillian Taiz

Lillian Taiz is a professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles, specializing in 19th century American social and cultural history. She is the author of "Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in the United States, 1880-1930".

Taiz serves as President of the California Faculty Association.

As a product of the California's community college, CSU, and UC systems, Taiz considers herself a "poster child" for all that California's Master Plan for Public Higher Education can offer the working people of this state.

CFA Board of Directors-President
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
(916) 441-4848 Phone
Email contact form
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Jeffrey Tan
Counseling Center-Psychological

July 19, 2010
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
CFA Chapter Counselors' Representative, San Bernardino
(909) 537-5040 Phone
Email contact form
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John Travis
Political Science

July 23, 2010
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John Travis

John Travis is a long-time professor of Political Science at Humboldt State University. His teaching and research areas are international relations, Latin American politics, and California government and politics.

He has been faculty union member since joining Humboldt’s faculty, first as a member of the United Professors of California, and later as a member of the California Faculty Association. He has served in many positions in CFA's Humboldt chapter, including chapter president. He also was a member of the CFA Board of Directors and Chair of the CFA Bargaining Team before his term as president of CFA from 2003 to 2007.

Member, CFA Bargaining Team
707-445-2156 Phone
Email contact form
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Kevin Wehr
Sociology

July 7, 2010
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Kevin Wehr
CFA Board of Directors - Representation
Chair, CFA Representation Committee
CFA Chapter President, Sacramento
Member, CFA Bargaining Team
916-541-2125 Phone
Email contact form

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