President’s Report • Tim Shively • FA President In his infamous essay and now best-selling book On Bullshit, Princeton Philosophy Professor Emeritus Harry Frankfurt questions why the titular phenomena is so prevalent in our society and proceeds to systematically delineate its various parts of speech, usage, etymology and sociohistorical contexts. One of the more instructive sections of his text involves the distinction between “lying” on the one hand and “bullshitting”...Read More
One of the functions of a union is to negotiate matters related to compensation and working conditions for all unit members. The FA unit members are all faculty working in the district and the outcomes from those negotiations are recorded in the Agreement (the contract agreed to by both FA and the District) and its associated appendices and MOUs. However,there are a variety of contexts in which the faculty in...Read More
