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Keynote Presentations

First General Session: Thursday, April 27 8:30 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Brian Murphy, President, DeAnza College
Brian Murphy is the President of DeAnza College. He is also the Distinguished Urban Fellow at the San Francisco Urban Institute (SFUI) at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and an Associate Professor of Political Science at SFSU. Murphy has served SFUI’s Executive Director, SFSU’s Director of External Affairs, and as Senior Advisor to the California State University’s chancellor with special responsibility for strategic planning.

Murphy earned a B.A. from Williams College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, all in political Science. He has taught political theory and American government at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara University, and San Francisco State University. He has written in the areas of democratic theory, planning, and political economy.

Murphy served as the Chief Consultant to the California State Legislature’s Review of the Master Plan for Higher Education, and was the principal consultant for the Legislature’s community college reform process in the late 1980s. He also served as Research Director for Caribbean Research at the Data Center in Oakland, and was a founding member of Faculty for Human Rights in El Salvador and Central America.

A resident of San Francisco, Murphy serves on San Francisco’s Human Services Commission, Workforce Investment Board, was a Board Member of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, and earlier served on the Board of Directors of the Friends of Candlestick Point Park. He is married and the father of two sons.

Second General Session: Thursday, April 27 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m.

Panel Discussion: Should we go there? The 80% Question
The “60% Law” (Ed Code § 87482.5) currently restricts the load of temporary part-time faculty in community colleges to 60%. Legislation is now in the pipeline to change the 60% limitation to 80% and apply this limitation to individual colleges rather than to districts. Will this legislation simply reduce the miles traveled by freeway-fliers in a search of a living wage, or is it a threat to tenure and the hiring of full-time faculty? Join us for a panel discussion and rebuttal as representatives from both sides of the issue present and argue their case.