Agenda

Friday, March 10, 2006
Caucus Meetings: Teacher Ed; African American; LGBT; Latino/a; Asian Pacific Islander; Women’s; Caucus Leaders.
Live Music with James Ford
Dinner with keynote Gloria Romero
Dance Party with DJ Amani Smith

Saturday, March 11, 2006
Workshops
Lunch with Legislative Panel (Jaime Regalado, Moderator)
Workshops
Plenary – Justice Delayed is Justice Denied with
Gerry Daley

Workshops

Post Prop. 209
(Jordan Halgas, CSU Sacramento)
This workshop will discuss the requirements of Prop 209—what is prohibited and what is not. It will also offer practical advice regarding how to legally recruit diverse faculty in a post-Prop 209 world.

Family Friendly: Part 1: Family Friendly Laws and Contract Provisions: How it all works (Nina Fendel, CFA Staff)
This session will cover state and federal laws governing family leave and related subjects, and explore how current contract language enhances these statutory rights. Several sample cases involving faculty needing to take different types of leaves will be covered in order to illustrate how the provisions all work together.

California's Budget Crisis: What Has It Meant for Low-Income Californians? (Jean Ross, Executive Director, California Budget Project)
This workshop will highlight the impacts of recent state budgets on low and middle-class Californians, especially in the areas of social services and healthcare. Additionally, information will be provided on how the state budget has affected funding for the CSU and higher education, in general.

African-American Caucus Workshop
(Linda Bynoe, CSU Monterey Bay & Leslie Grier, CSU Fullerton)
Linda Bynoe and Leslie K. Grier will provide an overview of two surveys directed towards African American faculty: one for tenured/tenure-track faculty and one for lecturers. The purposes of the surveys are to better understand the issues and challenges faced by African American faculty of the CSU; and to subsequently brainstorm ways to redress said issues, challenges and/or inequities. Survey results include quantitative and qualitative data.

Changing Demographics in CA
(Ali Modarres from the Pat Brown Institute)
Ali Modarres will present some material on CA but most of his work is on southern CA and he has campus specific stuff for CSULA. He will talk about changing demographics in CA and he would touch on immigration since that plays a big role. He will also speak to the impact of these changes on services like education, etc. where these have worked well and where not well and what needs to be considered as we move forward.

Unity and Organization: Latina/o Faculty and the Future of the CSU
(John Halcón, CSU San Marcos & Lillian Vega-Castañeda, CSU Channel Islands )
There appears to be a downward trend in Latina/Latinos in the CSU. This presentation will address the question of Latina/o faculty in the CSU, their academic needs, and the role that CFA can play in supporting our faculty. We will also address the need of extant faculty to join and participate actively with the CFA on their respective campuses and across the State.

Family Friendly: Part 2: Creating a family-friendly Agenda for CFA
(Nina Fendel, CFA Staff)
This session will allow participants to discuss the unmet needs of CSU faculty with regard to family leave and related provisions, and to explore how CFA, as the bargaining representative, can meet those needs through organizing, bargaining and statutory improvements.

LGBT Safe Zones
(Birch Moonwomon, CSU Sonoma & Joanne Schmidt, CSU Bakersfield)
It is the goal of the CFA LGBT Caucus to have safe zones on every CSU campus. Safe zones are not only for students, but also provide a safe environment for faculty. This workshop is a MUST for all faculty concerned with the invisible diversity issue.

Speaking Out and Being Heard
(Cecil E. Canton, CSU, Sacramento; Jose Cintron, CSU, Sacramento; Lila Jacobs, CSU, Sacramento)
This workshop will examine the experience of not feeling heard. The experience of not feeling heard or not being heard, particularly for under-represented faculty, is a common one. Issues concerning background, power relationships and point of view all contribute to this perspective. This workshop will explore strategies for becoming a more effective communicator and a more persuasive person.

The Changing Faces of CSU Faculty and Students
(Aimee Shreck, CFA Staff)
See recent trends in diversity among CSU faculty and students. Data will be presented on focus racial/ethnic, gender, and age diversity in the CSU. Learn about some helpful sources of data and get an update on the African American Caucus survey project.

Teacher Ed. Workshop: Payne, Poverty and Power Relations: Challenges for Teachers
(Roberta Ahlquist, San Jose State University, Jean Sims, Sonoma State University, Rosalinda Quintanar, San Jose State, Ann Berlak, SFSU, Virginia Lea, Sonoma State, Theresa Montano, CSU Northridge, Linda Bynoe, CSU Monterey Bay)
Ruby Payne's " A Framework for Understanding Poverty" has rapidly become a leading source for educational reform used by teachers and administrators globally. Payne's Deficit Theory framework pathologizes poverty void of any sociopolitical perspective and excluding race, ethnicity, gender and language. Payne's work prevents teachers from seeing themselves as potential oppressors or beneficiaries of a pre-existing inequitable educational system.

The presenters maintain that Payne's ideas promote racist and classist assumptions about how poor students learn. This session will uncover the classist, racist, and bias inherent in her work, the idea that Payne's work diminishes the importance of teacher beliefs and attitudes, or recognition of institutional bias.

Evident in Payne's literature is her support for the repressive policies of No Child Left Behind.

We will present ideas about what teachers educators can do to challenge these beliefs.

Delegates to the CAA Workshop
(Cecil Canton, CSU Sacramento and Dorothy Chen-Maynard, CSU San Bernardino)
The CFA is establishing a Council on Affirmative Action composed of elected representatives from each campus. The council will monitor the hiring and Retention Promotion and Tenure process represent those historically underrepresented in the CSU system, and develop new CFA leaders. This workshop will provide an opportunity for those elected/appointed as a council delegate (and for those seeking this position) to discuss the role of the council and how to build campus affirmative action committees.

Organizing to Win
(Kim Gerón, CSU East Bay & Lil Taiz, Los Angeles State University)
In 2006, CFA is confronting 3 major challenges: negotiations to win a fair contract, the fight to achieve a fully funded CSU budget with a moratorium on student fees, and the need to elect a higher education governor. This workshop will focus on how to mobilize our colleagues and our allies around these issues on campus and in our communities. We will also discuss how to build job actions this spring to demonstrate our determination to win.