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Online courses to help students graduate faster, remain full-time

Saman Mashayekhi, Staff Reporter | November 13, 2019

Members of the Foothill and De Anza Academic Senate discussed the exchange cross enrollment link program offered by the California Virtual Campus and their concerns at the joint meeting on Monday,...

State considers covering full cost of community college

Jonathan Cabrera, Staff Reporter | November 13, 2019

SB 291 covers the true cost of community colleges, which is not only tuition and materials, but also food, transportation and housing costs for students. Senate Bill 291 is currently being reviewed...

De Anza Housing Resources Unknown to Students

Annalise Freimarck, Campus Beat Editor | November 11, 2019

De Anza offers housing resources, yet most homeless students don’t use them. According to the 2018 Food, Housing and Transportation Security survey, 18% of De Anza College students have experienced...

Academic Senate discusses curriculum and changes for majors

Alex Woolner, Staff Reporter | November 2, 2019

The De Anza College Academic Senate is considering curriculum review changes and a new way to organize majors. One change discussed at the Oct. 28 meeting was re-organizing majors into a new Guided...

Approved staff pay raise to be negotiated

Saman Mashayekhi, Staff Reporter | October 31, 2019

The Foothill-De Anza faculty association unanimously ratified a two-year salary proposal for both full-time and part-time faculty. The district and faculty agreed to raise the 5% to 6% raise in 2019-20...

Presidential search committee includes part-time representative

Bhuvaneshwari Natarajan, Staff Reporter | October 23, 2019

The De Anza College Academic Senate voted in members for the college president search at the Oct. 21 meeting. Ishmael Tarikh was voted as the part-time representative, Tim Shively as the faculty association...

Academic renewal, the little-known hack that can save your GPA

Kathleen Quinn, Staff Reporter | October 22, 2019

Academic renewal is a way for students who have been with the college for over two years to wipe out Ds and Fs from the calculation of their GPA. Ian Balene, 20, criminal justice, said he believes the...

Zero-cost textbooks prove accessible to more students

Joshua Aplaon, Staff Reporter | October 17, 2019

Some professors at De Anza have implemented zero-cost resources and textbooks in their curriculum through Open Educational Resources. The driving force of using OERs is to alleviate students’...

De Anza to search for new mascot

Annalise Freimarck, Campus Beat Editor | October 15, 2019

After 10 years of debate, the DASB Senate, working alongside administration, will officially change De Anza College’s mascot from the controversial Don. The idea to change the mascot was first proposed...

DASB Senate pushes affordable on-campus housing

Kathleen Quinn, Staff Reporter | October 15, 2019

Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees member Patrick Ahrens and student trustee Genevieve Kolar presented the potential future of the Flint Center, including use as affordable housing at the DASB Senate meeting...

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