Awards & Honors

2013 CCA WHO Awards Nomination Deadline: March 22nd

ATTENTION Chapter Presidents--Here are all the necessary forms for nominating someone from your chapter. Please pay careful attention to the March 22nd, 2013 deadline in the notification letter from the CCA President and file the nomination form as soon as possible. Here are links to the five files for Chapter and/or State nominations, as well as to a ZIP file that contains all five:

2012 CCA David Milroy Award Goes to Josie Malik

Josie Malik is an outstanding recipient for the David Milroy Part Time Award. She has been involved in education from preschool to community college for the past 25 years. She started working as a part time instructor at San Joaquin Delta College 19 years ago and continues to be active in all levels of CTA. For the past two years she has held the position of VP Adjunct Affairs at the local.

She has been an integral part of the organization. Recently she wrote, received and oversaw a part time participation grant. On the local level, she has been working hard to promote and increase part time membership. She is active on the CCA statewide part time committee and regularly participates in events. She recently attended the part time phone banking campaign for both sessions. Josie also serves as a member of the Faculty Equity and Diversity Committee.

She is a member of the CTA State Council, serving on the special education committee. She is CTA's liaison to the California Associate of School Psychology (CASP). Josie is always willing to serve. She has dedicated her life to not only the betterment of students but also faculty.

2011 CCA W.H.O. Awards and David Milroy Award

who The results are in at the 2011 CCA Spring Conference at Newport Beach! On Saturday night, the recipients of this year's "We Honor Our Own" awards--and the first annual David Milroy award were announced during the annual W.H.O. banquet and gala! Congratulations to Jim Weir, CCA Treasurer, recipient of the first annual David Milroy Part-Time Faculty Award, and to the following W.H.O. Award winners:

Chapter	Recipient
Citrus College Faculty Association	Bruce Langford
CHI-Long Beach	Cindy Frye
CTA-Long Beach	Rachel Hollenberg
Gavilan College Faculty Association	Kaye Bedell
Imperial Valley College	Martha Garcia
Kern Community College	Susie Williams
Mendocino College Part-Time	Paul Kemp
Merced College	Jeff Tassey
Mt. San Antonio College Faculty Association	Eric Kaljumagi
Napa Valley College Faculty	Diane Van Deusen
Palo Verde Community College Association	Bill Ponder
Rio Hondo College Faculty Association	Madeline Shapiro
San Bernardino Community College District	Ralph Rabago
San Joaquin Delta College Teacher Association	Sam Hatch
Shasta College Faculty Association	Ken Nolte
Sierra College Faculty Association	Steve Linthicum
Solano College CTA Chapter	Kristie Iwamoto
South Orange County Community College	Loma Hopkins
Southwestern College Education Association	Veronica Burton
United Faculty (NOCCCD)	Steve Credidio
Victor Valley College Faculty Association	Tracey Davis-Butros

Read all about Fola Odebunmi receiving the first ever Mary Ann Pacheco Award!

David A. Sanchez GLBT Award

First Annual David A Sanchez GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) Award

During the Fall 2010 Conference, CCA was honored to present the first annual David A Sanchez GLBT (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender) Award to Mr. Joseph Franko, Professor at Mt. San Antonio College.

As a student at Iowa State University, Joe started the first gay liberation group at a time and in a place where doing so was neither common place nor safe. For the past 18 years Mr. Franko has been advisor to Lambda, Mt. SAC’s GLBT group on campus. He has come to the aid of students who have needed emergency housing and scholarship funds for students whose parents kicked them out of their homes upon finding out their children were gay.

However, his dedication is not limited to the Mt. SAC campus. Mr. Franko, helped start a gay liberation student group in Hawaii. This group succeeded in getting a bullying law passed to protect GLBT students. Professor Franko is the first openly gay, Presiding Clerk of Pacific Yearly Meeting, a gathering of Quakers from California, Hawaii, and Central America.

Joe started two schools for girls in the Afghanistan refugee camps on the border between Pakistan and Afganistan. The schools currently have 600 girls from ages 6-13. In addition, Joseph Franko was one of the pioneers who brought distance learning to the Mt. SAC campus and helped in starting the Mt. SAC Honors program. Read more ...

CCA Legislator of The Year

Assemblymember Paul Fong (D Cupertino)

Assemblymember Paul Fong (D Cupertino) worked into the wee hours of this morning to secure for us a long overdue State Budget. Mr. Fong grew up in Sunnyvale and was elected as the representative of the 22nd Assembly district in 2008.

Assemblymember Fong is the Chair of the elections and Redistricting Committee, which oversees all issues that relate to voting districts elections. He also serves as a voting member of the Banking and Finance, Higher Education, and Utilities and Commerce Committees.

In addition, Assemblymember Fong serves on the Select Committees on Aerospace, Biotechnology, Community Colleges, Domestic Violence, and Innovation and Bay Area Economy. Assemblymember Fong is a member of the Asian and Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus, the Community College Caucus, and the Environmental Caucus.

Prior to being elected to the State Assembly, Assemblymember Fong served on the Foothill-DeAnza Community College District Board of Trustees. He was also a political science professor at Evergreen Valley College.