Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees approves bond measure, parcel tax for March 3 elections
Kathleen Quinn, Staff Reporter
December 5, 2019
The Foothill-DeAnza Board of Trustees unanimously supported a bond measure and parcel tax after students and faculty showed strong support for housing. Several students brought signs with statements such as “Housing is a basic human right” and “parcel and bond and justice, yes, yes, yes,” urgi...
DASB Senator stipends likely to be paid through financial scholarships
Alex Woolner, Staff Reporter
December 3, 2019
The DASB Senate will continue to pursue a proposal to pay their senators, now in the form of scholarships. De Anza student trustee Genevieve Kolar said a realistic form of payment would provide scholarships to student senators, a method the Associated Students of Foothill College currently follows. ASFC...
Students continue fight for housing
Andrew Jaramillo, Staff Reporter
November 14, 2019
Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees President Pearl Cheng welcomed students and faculty who spoke about the ongoing issues of student homelessness and the future of the Flint Center at the Nov. 4 meeting. Cheng said that the Board of Trustees is on students’ sides in advocating for student...
DASB Senate pushes affordable on-campus housing
Kathleen Quinn, Staff Reporter
October 15, 2019
Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees member Patrick Aherns and student trustee Genevieve Kolar presented the potential future of the Flint Center, including use as affordable housing at the DASB Senate meeting on Oct. 2. The Board of Trustees made the final decision on June 10 to demolish the Flint C...
Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees votes to demolish Flint Center, rebuild new facility
Ethan Bennett, News Editor
June 16, 2019
The Flint Center will be torn down but the future of the site is up for grabs. At an emotion-packed Foothill-De Anza board of trustees meeting on June 10, community members and students from both colleges debated the site’s future. But the discussion was about more than just a building. Speakers from around the...
Shared governance meetings require DASB senator participation, guidance
Ella Shih, Staff Reporter
June 12, 2019
Acting DASB Vice President and president-elect Shelly Michael said DASB senators have a responsibility to attend shared governance meetings. At the May 13 academic senate meeting, Foothill-De Anza Student Trustee Genevieve Kolar and Inter Club Council Chairperson Rex Zhang presented a document titl...
Utah researcher discusses project, students ask for mentorship at Academic Senate
Ella Shih, Staff Reporter
May 22, 2019
The De Anza College academic senate presented information on higher education organization and student governance success on May 13. Sean Crossland, director of the Thayne Center for Service and Learning at Salt Lake Community College, presented his research project, “On Becoming a People’s C...
Editorial: DASB senator pay undeserved and irresponsible
Editorial board
May 17, 2019
The student government leader’s resolution to pay DASB senators for their work shows just how self-indulgent and out of touch they are with De Anza College’s financial reality. During their May 15 meeting, DASB senators voted unanimously to endorse a resolution requesting to provide a quarterly ...
DASB senators vote to pay themselves top rate among local colleges
Ethan Bennett and Julia Kolman, Editors
May 17, 2019
The DASB senate endorsed the student leader compensation resolution to request to pay senators $930 and executive officers $1,200 per quarter. The endorsed resolution will be presented to the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees. DASB President Lawrence Su and Student Trustee Genevieve Kol...
DASB senate endorses student leader compensation resolution
Mehek Kapur, Staff Reporter
May 16, 2019
DASB senate passed a resolution to request payments for student senators at their May 15 meeting. The May 8 resolution proposed payments of $720 for senators and $1,200 for executives quarterly. The endorsed resolution proposes maximum payments of $930 for senators and $1,200 for executives per qu...
