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Faced with rising costs while teaching during the pandemic, Foothill-De Anza faculty vote to withhold extra work until they get a raise

Yvonne Phan, Reporter | April 22, 2022

Beginning Monday, April 25, Foothill-De Anza faculty and counselors will begin a work-to-contract job action, limiting their job responsibilities to only what is in their job description and potentially...

March 17 - Over 100 stakeholders, many of whom displaying "Democracy Means Everyone" Zoom backgrounds, watch College Council discuss and debate shared governance at De Anza College.

De Anza President Lloyd Holmes must decide on whether to change college’s planning and budget processes

Kevin Nguyen, Reporter | March 23, 2022

“When I got here, people were saying over and over again that our shared governance model is terrible.” That is what Lloyd Holmes inherited when he was hired as De Anza College president in 2020,...

De Anza students, staff and faculty can get tested on Wednesdays between 12:30 and 4:30 p.m. in Parking Lot A.

De Anza finally offers free on-campus PCR tests to all students and faculty

Michael Davis, Editor Emeritus | March 14, 2022

De Anza College has started free on-campus testing for all current students and faculty in Parking Lot A from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. every Wednesday. The site went live shortly before the Feb. 28 town hall...

De Anza College administrators hoped for a return to in-person by spring, but have opted to take an incremental approach instead.

De Anza College scales back plans to return in-person and announces new booster requirements

Maida Suta, Impulse and Opinions Editor | March 10, 2022

In December 2021, De Anza College announced that it aimed to be primarily in-person by spring. However, the omicron variant that surged at the beginning of the current quarter threw a wrench in those plans.  On...

La Voz News placed and/or won in ten award categories at a journalism conference for college student media publications nationwide.

De Anza journalism students win awards at statewide conference

Cecilia Deck, Faculty Advisor | March 8, 2022

De Anza journalism students were awarded for their work on La Voz News in 2021, and for live contests held at a live college journalism conference in Long Beach from March 3-5. Six De Anza students...

The current five-person Foothill-De Anza Community College board of trustees discussing adopting a newly redistricted map on Feb. 14.

Foothill-De Anza adopts a new redistricted map, with Cupertino and Sunnyvale up for elections first in November

Kevin Nguyen and Georgina Munoz-Villanueva | February 15, 2022

Feb. 14 -- After three years of laying the groundwork for such a change, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District’s board of trustees adopted a new map which will see its governing territory divided...

The Foothill-De Anza district employed the services of Redistricting Partners to help them facilitate community outreach and design new maps for redistricting.

Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees leans toward existing city boundaries ahead of final vote on new district map

Georgina Munoz-Villanueva, Reporter | January 17, 2022

After their latest public hearing, the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees is divided between two final draft maps that aim to redesign the current distribution of the areas within the college district,...

Dec. 13 - The Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees reviewed three draft maps ahead of their move away from at-large elections. The Board will need to ratify a new map with five distinct areas by February 2022.

Board of Trustees votes to advance two draft maps ahead of redistricting in 2022

Kevin Nguyen and Georgina Munoz-Villanueva | December 15, 2021

On Dec. 13, the Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board of Trustees voted 4-1 in favor of advancing two out of three draft maps presented to the public with an eye towards consolidating that...

Enrollment has been on the decline not only this past year since the pandemic started, but also over the past nine years. The pandemic has had an effect however, affecting the number of students enrolled fully online this past year by an increase of 99%.

Internal data shows that De Anza College has seen a steady decline in enrollment for the past nine years

Ayah Ali-Ahmad, Freelance | December 12, 2021

From the years 2013 to 2021, De Anza College has seen shifts in various enrollment trends. Over the past nine years, the school has seen overall enrollment steadily decline by 20% while full-time online...

This gender neutral bathroom is located in the L4 building on campus. It is locked and requires a passcode to enter.

De Anza set to install three more gender-neutral restrooms on campus

Rory Conlon, Reporter | December 8, 2021

De Anza College’s director of college operations, Jennifer Mahato, is working to open up three more gender-neutral, also referred to as “all-gender” and “gender-inclusive,” restrooms on-campus...

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