Support for faculty in and out of the classroom
Make a direct and immediate difference for students! The Faculty Association provides an opportunity for scholarships and emergency grants to help students in need through the Maricopa Colleges Faculty Foundation.
Help make decisions affecting your profession, your colleagues and students. The Faculty Association actively promotes shared governance and faculty leadership to maintain professional integrity and accountability while empowering faculty in policy and governance.
Protect academic freedom, which is under relentless attack by political enemies, judicial decisions, and legislative instigators. The Faculty Association maintains constant vigilance on these and related matters. It also offers educational workshops on shared governance, academic freedom, peer review, and other
professional values and standards.
Resolve misunderstandings and maintain healthy work relationships. The Faculty Association supports faculty involved in grievance and resolution of controversy processes to help navigate difficult situations.
Make your voice heard. The Faculty Association Political Action Committee (FacPAC) is the only political action committee in Arizona composed of higher education faculty. Through voluntary contributions to the Faculty PAC, in recent years we have made a decisive difference in electing governing board members who support students and understand the faculty’s role in achieving student success.
Know that we support and fight for your concerns. The Faculty Association retains Mike Bielecki of the law firm of Lewis Roca Rothgerber to advocate for the interests of our members in legislative, governmental, and other forums. Mike has been essential to our efforts in fighting the Guns on Campus legislation and the recent attacks on our pension. He has also been instrumental in advising the FacPAC on Governing Board and state legislature elections.
Enjoy the benefit of professional legal council for professional and personal needs. The Faculty Association retains the services of Jim Barton of the Law Offices of Torres Law Group, PLLC to help protect the employment rights of members.
Supplemental Non-MCCCD Legal Benefits for FA Members
We strive to respond to requests within 48 hours. If you do not receive a response, please email personnel@mccfa.org.
Get your important papers in order. Faculty Association members, spouses, and dependent children are entitled to a free Will, Living Will, and Healthcare Power of Attorney.
Enjoy a free legal council. As a Faculty Association member, you, your spouse and dependent children are entitled to a free one-hour consultation with an attorney on any legal matter, whether professional or personal.
Take advantage of reduced fees. You are entitled as a Faculty Association member to a reduced contingency fee of 25%. Additionally anyone referred by an FA member will receive the same discount as a generous thank you.
Save yourself time and money. As a Faculty Association member, you are provided with a referral to a qualified attorney at discounted rates for matters such as bankruptcy, family law, criminal defense, and estate planning.
Faculty needs to stand together: adjuncts should be represented, too, somehow.
To have a say in my working life and to help protect the Maricopa CC professorate for future students and for society in general.
Protection of faculty rights; Faculty advocacy groups; Legal representation
I support a body outside of the institution to look out for the faculty’s best interests.
Ratification voting rights, access to the lawyer, and it’s the right thing to do for shared governance utilizing Association leadership positions.
Our membership is affordable for any budget.
