Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy

Cecil Canton

Dr. Cecil E. Canton is a tenured professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at CSU Sacramento. He is the California Faculty Association Associate Vice President and Chair of the Council for Affirmative Action.

Dr. Canton is the co-author/editor of The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), a book dealing with the issues of diversity, identity and authenticity in higher education.

Professor Canton is a member of the Membership Advisory Committee and the Higher Education Sub-Committee of the National Education Association (NEA).

Prof. Canton was the recipient of the CFA 2005 Mario Savio Equal Rights Award in recognition of his leadership in the promotion of Equal Rights in the California State University.

Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield has been a member of the political science department at Sonoma State for twenty-five years.

Merrifield serves as Associate Vice President, North, of the California Faculty Association.

His areas of speciality are the American presidency, budgetary politics, state and local government and political methodology.

Merrifield joined CFA soon after joining the faculty. Before teaching at Sonoma he was active in SEIU and CTA, the former in local government and thelatter at a community college. He also worked as the sole staff member for an independent union in local government.

At Sonoma Merrifield served as the PAC/Leg person on the executive board, then chapter vice president; he is now in his fourthterm as chapter president. He currently serves on the CFA bargaining committee.