The Palomar Faculty Federation serves all part-time and full-time faculty, and by way of
attending to faculty rights and concerns, we aim to improve the learning environment for
students, as faculty teaching conditions are student learning conditions.
With a self-understanding of serving such a broad and large constituency and being comprised
of both part time and full time faculty, we need to be aware of the diversity of the people we
represent, of their differing cultures, experiences, needs, and outlooks on the world. We have
not always attended to these matters as much as we should have. We are still working on
diversifying the e-board and become the kind of faculty organization by which all faculty feel
represented. These matters have always been urgent, but their urgency has become even
clearer after another year of tragedies and protests, and the Black Lives Matter movement has
powerfully driven home the message that we need a societal transformation, a transformation
of which we wish to be a part. We will attend with open eyes, mind, and heart, to ending
systemic and institutional discrimination of any kind and look within ourselves, and encourage
others to look within themselves, to confront various discriminatory belief systems that may
have clouded our views. We ask all faculty to join us in working towards a college that strives to
achieve more economic justice, more inclusion, and more cooperation.
As a first concrete step, several PFF e-board members are taking African American history
classes for faculty and staff to further educate ourselves, and the PFF was instrumental in
implementing such classes, and we are advocating for further in-depth educational
opportunities to gain the knowledge necessary to end systems of discrimination. As educators,
we dedicate ourselves to lifelong learning, and recognize that taking a class is just a start for all
of us to better educate ourselves on the challenges that various individuals and groups face in
society, and how even though we may even represent diversity in one aspect, we may hold a
position of privilege in others.
We encourage faculty to join us in this effort, and help us, through running for seats on the e-
board, to represent faculty in all its diversity, not least so we can better serve our diverse
students.