Current Initiatives
2024-2025 Academic Year Accomplishments
- Developed and distributed the Faculty Success: Onboarding and Mentorship – Faculty Perspectives report.
- Assisted in broader university compensation conversations that led to a first-of-its-kind targeted pay raise for employees earning below $103,000.
- Successfully proposed a minor but meaningful Faculty Manual revision, striking the word “Adjunct” from the title of Section E.13.1 to more accurately reflect current processes.
- Presented to the CSU campus community outlining the current status and contributions of CCAF/NTTF, which enhanced broader awareness and engagement around faculty equity and recognition.
2025-2026 Academic Year, CoNTTF expects their work to include the following key areas of focus:
Appointment Types and Faculty Security: CoNTTF will focus on increasing transparency and education around faculty appointment types, promotion stability, and empowering eligible faculty to pursue long-term contracts.
Faculty Success and Institutional Culture: CoNTTF will continue efforts to strengthen onboarding, mentorship, and career development by sharing tools and reports that promote inclusive and supportive academic environments.
Workload Equity: CoNTTF will work with campus partners to advance fair workload distribution policies and push for implementation of equitable practices across teaching, service, and research.
Compensation and Pay Equity: CoNTTF will prioritize advocacy for transparent, consistent compensation practices and long-term solutions to pay inequities across ranks and departments.
Budget Model Redesign Implications: CoNTTF will evaluate how the new budget model impacts CCAF/NTTF roles and advocate for decisions that protect faculty stability.
Strategic Relationships: CoNTTF will strengthen partnerships with CSU leadership to ensure CCAF/NTTF voices remain central in policy and budget discussions.
Appointment Security and Future Models: CoNTTF will explore expanded long-term appointment models, including teaching tenure, to better align with the contributions and needs of CCAF/NTTF.
Engagement and Community Building: CoNTTF will increase opportunities for CCAF/NTTF engagement through recognition programs, educational events, and community-building efforts.
Note: Full focus area descriptions are available in our 2024-2025 Annual Report.
Conversations are expected to include a proposal to expand professional development opportunities for contract, continuing, and adjunct faculty (CCAF), discussion around a proposal for teaching tenure, and proposed Faculty Manual revisions related to contract appointments. If you have any concerns, questions, or suggestions about these priorities, please contact us.
The below graphics represent data from Institutional Research, which creates a more concrete picture of the current circumstances of non–tenure track faculty at CSU:
