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DASB meets to approve budgets, forms new committee

Ashley Gonzalez, Staff Reporter | February 21, 2019

The 2019-20 DASB budget was approved at the Feb. 13 senate meeting and a previous proposal to form an ad-hoc shared governance committee was resolved “Finance committee has spent over 16 hours over...

Flint Center to close temporarily

Elsa Castro and Ashley Gonzalez | February 20, 2019

Structural safety concerns in the Flint Center will result in a year long closure of the building, suspending all programing from June 2019 until June 2020. “The year-long suspension of scheduling is...

‘Coffee with a Cop and Chancellor’ provides opportunity for conversation

Amy Gallagher, Staff Reporter | February 12, 2019

Students and staff gathered in De Anza College main dinning hall to grab a cup of coffee and have a casual conversation with Chancellor Judy Miner, Chief of Police Danny Acosta and other police officers...

Severe budget cut recommendations for various De Anza College programs

Julia Kolman, Staff Writer | February 6, 2019

Student senators announced the 2019-2020 budget recommendations during the Jan. 30 DASB meeting. Carolyn Nguyen, president, and Ian Robertsson, chair of finance, reported the finance committee’s funding...

Student Success Center coordinator to retire

Elsa Castro, Staff Reporter | January 31, 2019

After serving the Foothill-De Anza community for over 30 years, Stephanie Pham, Academic Skills Center program coordinator of the Student Success Center, will retire at the end of this year. Pham’s...

DASB votes to support paper towel removal plan

Yami Sun, Staff Reporter | January 28, 2019

A resolution that would eliminate paper towels from De Anza bathrooms was approved at the Jan. 23 DASB meeting. Environmental sustainability committee’s “Save Paper Towels” project aims to reduce...

Fewer resources available for future De Anza students

Stephanie Lam and Shiri Marwaha | January 13, 2019

Students will see an absence of classified staff in the Student Success Center after a consensus vote was passed, eliminating six classified positions during a joint College Council, Administrative Services,...

Danny Acosta appointed new Chief of Police

Jocelyn Hernandez, Staff Reporter | December 17, 2018

Son of immigrant parents, Daniel Acosta, newly appointed Chief of Police at Foothill-De Anza Community, hopes to build a better relationship between the police department and the community it serves. Born...

Academic senate votes to support smoke ban

Michael Nijmeh, Staff reporter | December 5, 2018

De Anza College’s academic senate approved a proposal to support a 100 percent smoke-free campus policy, voting 14-0 with two abstentions on Monday, Nov 26. Currently De Anza College’s smoking policy...

Students engage in outreach campaign for midterm elections

Damon Ong, Staff reporter | December 5, 2018

To increase political involvement in school for the recent midterm elections, outreach campaigns by the political science department and the VIDA office engaged students’ involvement to spread voter...