On May 2, the Foothill-De Anza Board of Trustees voted to eliminate 24 classified positions due to budget constraints.
On June 6, the Board voted to rescind 12 of those layoffs. La Voz examines the impact that some of these losses will have on the De Anza College campus and students.
Chong Le
EOPS Service Coordinator
9 years at De Anza
The extended oppurtunity programs and services provide college support services for low-income and educationally disadvantaged students. Le does outreach for EOPS, "informing High School students about the support program that’s available to them and [bringing] them to the college." He worries that enrollment will drop once he leaves.
"Statistics show that students with EOPS get the most help, and their retention rate is high."
Blanche Monary
Employment Training Advisor
10 years at De Anza
Monary works in the Employment Planning and Resource Center, helping students get jobs and internships. She provides students with market information and assists them in creating resumes.
"I have contacts with the employers," she says. "I actually place them [in the positions]."
Students can go to the career center for some of the services that Monary offers, but she says, "They don’t get the students jobs like I do."
Dorie Anderson
Testing Proctor
12 years at De Anza
Anderson runs the Instructional Testing Center, where students take make-up or alternate tests. The testing center proctors approximately 1500 exams every quarter. After her position is eliminated, "There won’t be any make-up or alternate tests available," Anderson says. It will be up to the instructors [to make testing arrangements for students], which will be hard for part-time instructors."
Janice Winkel
Media Relations/ Edit Coordinator
17 years at De Anza
Winkel says "basically I’ve been a writer and editor." She deals with the media on a daily basis, fielding calls and writing all the press releases for De Anza College. She says her most important job is editing the quarterly course catalog. Winkel also edits internal brochures and newsletters, including the President’s Report and Local Talk. She fears, "Some of what I do is going away for good."
