Some details Denise and I discussed by telephone yesterday:

1. The concept of "billionaire" administrators drinking champagne and protesting "improvements" for part time faculty.

• job security
• equal pay for equal work
• benefits
• inclusion in the campus community

2. They could protest equal treatment of students

• Students don't deserve instructors who have office hours
• who have professional development
• who are paid to grade student papers
• who have paid prep time
  
• all of which full time faculty have (and more)

3. They could drink champagne and insist that

• only 1 in 5 students is entitled to meet with an instructor and get help with problems
• it's very OK for a student to meet an instructor next to a trash can, in the hallway, or in the instructor's automobile.
• Students aren't entitled to learn through the class schedule which instructor might not offer them full service from the district
• students don't deserve equality and what they don't know won't hurt them
• student success at community college campuses is dropping due to lousy educational service but everyone should blame part time faculty as lousy instructors . . . not the administration for failing to provide equal service
• if the budget goes bad, cut classes and PT faculty, not administrative budgets.

There's more, I'm sure . . . and I know we can't include all of these details or the message becomes too complex. However, I hope these ideas give Clifford some fodder to work with, and I would love to see him post here and tell us what he thinks!

Pamela