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PART-TIME OFFICE LOBBY INCLUDES A KEYPAD - Page the professor you are meeting with and they will buzz you in or even speak to you. Don’t know your professors’ extention? A helpful guide is located right below the keypad, updated quarterly.
De Anza College students will no longer have to meet with their part-time instructors outside or in the cafeteria. Over the summer, offices for De Anza’s part time faculty were built under the Baldwin Winery.
“Due to the lack of office space . . . students are the ones who have been harmed the most,” wrote part-time instructor Mary Ellen Goodwin in the 2007 De Anza Academic Senate newsletter. Four years later, the plans for the offices have come to fruition.
The par-time offices will hold an application process every quarter and while construction has finished, the application process to allow staffers into the building is currently underway. The offices are not constructed in a typical office design; they consist of cubicle walls within a large room.
These offices will benefit students, who will now have an office where they can congregate with their instructors, but also the par-time staff. “In the past, office hours for part time [faculty] were voluntary,” said Goodwin. “Some full time staff shared their offices, and some divisions had space for part time staff, but it is good that we finally have a place to call our