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Fall 2008	Budget Wars Also in this issue: Ballot to Budget: Part II Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After: My Transition from Part-time to Full-time A Demonstration of Advocacy: COLA Index Preserved The Nature of Our Paradox Retirement Woes Dissolving Onward to 2010:Making Faculty Central to the Cause Change Offers Its Hand:Part-Time Parity and “Regularization and much more!
Spring 2008	How California's Community Colleges are Going Green Also in this issue: Mercy, Mercy Me: Things STILL Ain't What They Used To Be by Suzanne Crawford De Anza's Kirsch Center: An Award-Winning Building That Captures a Teaching Moment by Rich Hansen Swirling: Nomads in Search of Affordability and Convenience by Rachel Winston Going Green by Fran Pavley and much more!
Winter 2008	Proposition 92: How We Can Win by John McDowell Our Fifteen Minutes of Fame by Lantz Simpson, Becky Curtis, Dennis Frisch and Martin Goldstein Also in this issue: The Web and Intellectual Authority by Carlos Guerrero The People and Promise of California, a book review by Sandra Tarling Powazek A Mashup of One's Own: Intellectual Property in an Information Age by Joni Jordan 2007 FACCC EI Conference in Review and much more!
Fall 2007 *Recipient of the 2007 LACP Inspire Awards - Silver Award - details *Recipient of the 2008 Hermes Creative Awards - Gold Award - details	Celebrating the Stars of California's Community Colleges Featuring "Pearls" from the 2007 Writers' Retreat Also in this issue: Get a Life: Teaching as a 24/7 Profession by Joni Jordan Interview with the Incoming FACCC President Bill Hewitt History of the CC by Carlos R. Guerrero Value Centered Living by Rachel Winston Q&A on the Community College Initiative In Search of the Good Life by Manuel Lopez Pied Pipers of the Professorate by John McFarland Readers Write on Celebrating the CCCs and much more!
Summer 2007	FACCC Education Institute Presents: 2007 Conference --GET INTO GEAR Also in this issue: Gone with the Windbag by John McFarland Conversation with Assemblymember Jean Fuller Lost in Cyberspace: How Do I Get Out? by Nishi Shah-Williams Basic Skills: We CAN Work Together by Barbara Illowsky, PhD and Richard Mahon, PhD "I, Me, Mine" on Steroids -- Are Today's College Students and Young People More Narcissistic? by Suzanne Crawford and much more!
Spring 2007 Recipient of the Gold Award in the 2007 MarCom Awards Competition - details*	Basic Skills: the Promise of Access for California Community College Students by Rachel Winston Basic Skills and the New Millennium: a Post-"3Rs" Brave New World? by Suzanne Crawford Also in this issue: Readers Write on Basic Skills in the Classroom A Day in the Life: Cuba -- an Inside Look at Education by Richard Hansen The Power of One: the Untold Story of AB 2941 Quadre Theologica by John McFarland and much more!
Winter 2007 Recipient of the Gold Award in the 2007 Hermes Creative Awards details*	Crossing the Digital Divide: Understanding and Engaging 21st Century Students by Rachel Winston Not LOL@Nu Wrtng: Lamenting Text Lingo by Suzanne Crawford Also in this issue: Readers Write on MySpace vs. Your Space The New Standards for Math & English: Good? Bad? Who Knows? by Suzanne Crawford For Whom Are Admissions Possible by John McFarland 2006 Conference in Review and much more!
Fall 2006 Recipient of the Gold Award in the 2006 MarCom Creative Awards Competition - details*	Immigrant Students: Gaining Visibility by Richard Hansen and Laura Casas-Frier Also in this issue: Readers Write on Immigration and Its Impact on California's Community Colleges Empowering Students with dis-Abilities by Suzanne Crawford The "Reality" Gap by Lance Blount A Day in the Life: Tales of Full- and Part-Time Faculty and much more!
Spring/Summer 2006	Addressing the CalSTRS Unfunded Actuarial Obligation: What You Need to Know by Carolyn Widener, vice president of the Teachers' Retirement Board (TRB) and chair of the TRB Benefits and Services Committee Also in this issue: Sixty to Eighty, A Cautionary Tale by Rich Hansen Podcasting & Vodcasting in Academia by Rachel Winston Leadership Crisis: Training a New Generation by Rachel Winston The Sixty Percent Law: Keep It, Abolish It, or Change It? by Suzanne Crawford Walking the Line: How Academic Freedom Affects Teaching & Learning by Joni Jordan and Much More!
Winter 2006* Recipient of an Award of Distinction in The 2006 Communicator Print Media Awards Competition - details Winner in the 2006 APEX Awards Competition - details	Community Colleges Must Take the Initiative: Measure Being Touted for the November 2006 Ballot Is the Solution by John McDowell, Political Director, LA College Faculty Guild & Member, FACCC Board of Governors Also in this issue: Gone With the Wind? A Look at Edu-fashion by Joni Jordan Proposition Community Colleges: What's Going On? by Jonathan Lightman Keeping Tabs on Your Retirement: An Update for Part-Time Faculty by Cliff Liehe Eye on Compton Community College: An Accreditation Update & Alert by Wanda Morris Student Learning Outcomes: Enhancers of Learning or Spoilers of Magic? by Suzanne Crawford and much more!
Fall 2005	Mobilizing Student Power for Community Colleges by John McDowell, Political Director, LA College Faculty Guild & Member, FACCC Board of Governors Also in this issue: CalSTRS Update: Moving Ahead on AB 1586 Benefit Recalculations The Student Novel Gets a Sex Change, John McFarland On Sane and Insane Elections, Jonathan Lightman The Years Under AB 1725: Two Past Presidents Reflect on Their Experiences & the Meaning of Faculty Activisim, or "FACCCtivism" and much more!
Summer 2005 Recipient of the Gold Award in the 2005 MarCom Creative Awards Competition - details*	Defining Effective District Leadership by Cy Gulassa Also in this issue: Outside Experts or Hired Guns? Mona Field Part-Time Faculty Still on the Ropes, a book review by Preston Rose Who's Looking Out for You? Jonathan Lightman and much more!
Spring 2005	The Coming Pension War by Carolyn Widener Also in this issue: Et tu, Bureaucracy? Money, Monsters & Fear, Oh My! Interview with Asm. Alberto Torrico Turf or Surf: The Rising Tide of Online Education STRS & FACCC: Solving the Puzzle of Part-Time Faculty Retirement and much more!
Winter 2005* Recipient of Award of Distinction* by The Communicator Awards - 2005 Print Media Competition Details *Recipient of 2005 Apex Award for "Most Improved" - Details	Working Together to Keep Faculty Health Benefits Off Life Support by Susan Aminoff Also in this issue: 2004 FACCC Conference in Review Unequal Benefits for Retirees: an Ethical Dilemma Distance Learning...Wait! Hold That Thought! Half Full or Half Empty, a Closer Look at Part-Time Faculty Health Benefits Making the Most of College, Students Speak Their Minds, a book review and much more!
Fall 2004	CPR Looms at Cliff's Edge by Jane Hallinger *California Performance Review: What's Behind the Noise?* by Jonathan Lightman Also in this issue: Political Survivor Hot August Nights The Hustle of Higher Ed The Secrets of College Success Small Group Instruction in Higher Education, a book review Tales of Shahrazad for the Twenty-First Century, a book review and much more!
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