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Firestorm!:

[Thesis]

Gunderson, Luke

Chaffey College in Crisis, 1978-1980

Silverman, Victor

The Claremont Graduate University

2020

258

Ph.D.

The Claremont Graduate University

2020

Chaffey College, located on the eastern edge of the Los Angeles suburb, underwent a series of financial and personnel crises following the passage of Proposition 13 in June 1978. The proposition gutted the property tax revenues that had funded the college to that point and new administrative leaders tried to figure out how to keep the college financially solvent. The college president pursued many strategies that other community colleges in California employed, but his tactics in negotiating faculty salary increases in fall 1979 initiated a conflict with the faculty. Some faculty leaders began to call for unionization in December 1979, just as the administration and trustees floated the idea of large-scale faculty layoffs. The union movement grew as the college president pursued mass layoffs in spring 1980. The layoff decision ignited a firestorm of protest among student leaders, the faculty, and community members. These groups pressured the college's board of trustees to formally recognize the union, which the board conceded in May 1980.

Chaffey College

Chaffey College Teachers Association

Faculty union

History

Layoff

Proposition 13

Gunderson, Luke

Silverman, Victor

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[Thesis]

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