and over 300 courses from the Spring semester were intended to be cut. The majority of said courses were being taught by adjunct faculty. This caused alarm for both faculty and students, because the cuts would increase class sizes, despite small class sizes being a large draw for students who chose the college. The decreased number of courses offered would also potentially reduce the amount of selection and availability for students to take courses they needed to graduate. Non-adjunct faculty were concerned that their increased class sizes would overload them with work and that their curriculum would have to change to accommodate a lecture size class, as opposed to the more intimate class setting they were accustomed to.
During the strike, all classes taught by adjunct faculty were not in session. Eventually the college had adjunct faculty who were not striking and full time faculty substitute for the classes that were going untaught.
On December 17, the CFAC and Columbia College mutually reached a tentative …
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