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De Anza College Latin: De Aja Established 1967 Type Community college President Brian Murphy[1] Academic staff 300 full-time, 635 part-time[1] Students ~22,000[1] Location Cupertino, California, United States Campus 112 acres (45 ha) Mascot Don Affiliations Foothill College Website http://www.deanza.edu/ 
A. Robert De Hart Learning Center
Flint Center, the main auditorium
De Anza College is a 112-acre (45 ha) community college located in Cupertino, California. It was founded in 1967 on the site of the Beaulieu Winery and is named after the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza. Along with the arrival and growth of Apple Computer, the presence of De Anza College contributed significantly to the growth of Cupertino from a small town to an industrial city and an integral part of Silicon Valley. It consistently ranks #1 or #2 in the state for the total number of students who annually transfer to University of California and California State University campuses. [2] [3] The college is one of the largest, single-campus community colleges in the country with a fall enrollment averaging 25,000 students from over 50 different countries. The college is also the home of the California History Center, housed in a mansion called "Le Petit Trianon". The current president of De Anza college is Brian Murphy. The average class size at De Anza is 35, and approximately 2,800 students transfer per year. It also attracts a heavy international student population.De Anza College is part of Silicon Valley's Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which also administers Foothill College in nearby Los Altos Hills, California. The district serves the cities of Cupertino, Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The district headquarters is on the Foothill campus.
Each year, De Anza invites several celebrities and dignitaries for public speaking engagements at its main theater, the Flint Center. De Anza once held the second largest pow-wow in the Bay Area, but the pow-wow organizers moved the event in 2005.
De Anza holds a monthly flea market its parking lot, which has become a community tradition as well as major source of income for the De Anza Associated Student Body. (DASB) With a budget of over 1 million dollars, the DASB has one of the biggest student budgets of any community college in California.
De Anza formerly had their own campus police. They used to wear slacks and polo shirts, and officers were unarmed. The department was not a POST participating agency and in 2001, the campus police departments at De Anza and Foothill College were merged to become the Foothill-De Anza College District Police.
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Notable Buildings on Campus
Euphrat Museum of Art
The mission of the Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College is to stimulate creativity and an interest in art among audiences of all ages.[4] The museum hosts changing art exhibits and accompanying educational programs for local and distant emerging and established artists. School programs are offered, primarily in Cupertino and Sunnyvale, and each year the museum creates public art projects with young area students, De Anza student interns and Euphrat artist/teachers.
The museum is open from Monday to Thursday.
A new facility is planned for the museum, to be located in the new Performing Arts Center that will be built at De Anza College.
Visual and Performing Arts Center
The Visual and Performing Arts Center also known as the VPAC had a grand opening on March 6-8, 2009,[5] and is now open to the students of De Anza College. Not only is the VPAC built with an art exhibit it also provides a 400-seat performance and lecture hall which can be available for rental to both De Anza College organizations and outside community groups.[6]
Kirsch Center
The Kirsch Center opened in 2005 and is the lead demonstration building for innovative ways to be more sustainable. It was the first community college building in the US to receive a LEED platinum rating. As leader of sustainability on campus, the Kirsch center not only offers a new way to embrace sustainability in the future, it also challenges the rest of the nation to follow by example.
A 17-year effort, the Kirsch Center was conceived and is operated by De Anza faculty, staff and students, with the philosophy that this facility is "a building that teaches about energy, resources and stewardship." [7]
Over 100 environmental classes are taught in the Kirsch Center. In addition to high quality classrooms and labs, students can work in self-paced programs at special open study stations throughout the building.
A few examples of what makes this building unique include:
- Solar panel roof
- Advanced natural ventilation
- Raised floor for gentle air distribution and flexibility
- Natural day lighting
- Orientation and layout for energy efficiency and passive solar benefits
- Water conservation and water runoff control
- Radiant heating and cooling
- Native species landscaping [8]
The beautiful, spacious, and carbon easy building is a favorite location for policy makers, school officials, student groups, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to visit and utilize for conferences and for tours. [9]
The building was a 10 million dollar project that was funded by various groups including the DASB student senate, Morgan Family Foundation, and Steve and Michele Kirsch Foundation.
Outdoor Artwork on Campus
- "La Vita E Una Fontana" or "Life is a Fountain" by Salvatore Pecoraro Dec 1, 1991
- "Longevity Turtle" by Elwood Martin Reynolds, donated by Dr. and Mrs. Alvin Rutner
- "Time Graffiti" by David Middlebrook, 1997. donated by Mrs. Rena Frabony DeHart in memory of De Anza College Founding President A. Robert DeHart.
De Anza Associated Student Body
Like many public and private colleges, De Anza College also has its own student government, the De Anza Associated Student Body (DASB) Senate. Unlike many other colleges, however, the DASB handles an annual budget of about $1 million. Some schools, in comparison, handle annual budgets of less than $500,000. The budget is generally allocated to many programs on campus to help the students succeed in their academics, as well as inviting guest speakers from various universities to advise students on strategies they can use to get an edge in their transfer application.
The DASB Senate is compromised of 30 senators that have a passion for improving the De Anza campus. The DASB Senate manifests new, creative, innovative ideas which take the college to another level. The goal of the DASB Senate is to bring the students together, improve student life, involve students on campus, and represent the De Anza population.
The DASB Senate meeting meets every Wednesdays at 3:30pm except for the first Wednesday of the month which is at 4:30pm. It is located on the lower level of the Hinson Campus Center in Student Council Chambers. However, there are no Senate meetings on the first week of regular quarter or dead week (the week before finals), finals week, or during quarter breaks. The DASB Senate has six different internal committees plus several ad-hoc committees.
Internal Committees:
Finance Committee: The goal of the Finance Committee is to establish policies and procedures for budget development, budget approval and expending of all money under the control of the DASB. The committee processes budget requests, ensure programs are following budget stipulations, keep track of DASB funds and accounts, and allocated funds for the upcoming year.
Student Rights and Services Committee: The DASB Student Rights and Services Committee promotes the rights of all De Anza Students. Works with faculty, staff and administration toward a common goal of meeting the needs of the students. Ensures that the college and all its staff and faculty members provide all services entitled to students.
Administration Committee: It reviews the DASB Senate Bylaws and DASB Codes, drafts and reviews proposed amendments, and presents recommendations to the DASB Senate for approval. It reviews proposed amendments to the DASB Constitution, DASB Senate Bylaws, or other DASB Codes. It hires a DASB Senate Parliamentarian at its own discretion with the approval of a majority vote of the DASB Senate.
Marketing Committee: Manages and oversees the DASB Marketing Committee Account and DASB Newsletter Account expenditure, in the best interest of the DASB membership. It serves as a liaison between the De Anza College students, DASB Senate, and the De Anza College community. It publicizes DASB Senate events and services.
Diversity and Events Committee: To create and promote and understanding and awareness of diversity on the De Anza Campus. It expands multiculturalism and education through events and activities, create new multicultural programs, and advocate for as many populations that make up the diversity of De Anza College.
Environmental Sustainability Committee: The DASB Environmental Sustainability Committee promotes awareness of the environmental sustainability to the students and the community; oversees events that promote or support environmental sustainability; plans, coordinates, schedules, and provides DASB programs and events that promote or support environmental sustainability.
Every spring quarter De Anza holds elections where candidates can run for senate positions for the upcoming year. This election takes place during the month of May where students at De Anza can apply for a position in DASB Senate. During this time the candidates are challenged to compete with other candidates while trying to get the most votes to get elected for office. This includes marketing yourself with slogans, posters, flyers, classroom presentation, and etc. In other words, this is to demonstrate each candidates their abilities to prove that they can handle the responsibilities of not just only as a DASB Senate member, but to the entire De Anza students population.
De Anza Flea Market
DASB also operates The De Anza Flea Market held on every first Saturday of a month. The De Anza Flea Market began as a small effort by the students of De Anza College to raise money for the student body over 30 years ago and has grown into an established community event attracting vendors and patrons from throughout the state. The De Anza Flea Market is still a student enterprise with the De Anza Associated Student Body paying for all of the expenses and gaining approximately $300,000 annually for a variety of programs, services and events at De Anza College. The De Anza Flea Market contains about 825 vendor stalls and usually sells out very quickly. If the weather is good the Flea Market will typically draw approximately 15,000 to 20,000 shoppers.
Programs
Puente Project
The Puente Project is a program offered at De Anza that helps underserved students transfer to 4-year institutions. "Puente" means "bridge" in Spanish, which symbolizes the bridge the program builds for the students to reach higher education. Puente is made up of three key components: English, individualized counseling, and individual mentoring. Puente students transfer from De Anza at a much higher rate than non-Puente Latino students—61% of De Anza’s Puente students transfer within six years.[10] The program co-coordinators are Alicia Cortez, along with Becky Roberts as the English instructor.
Averted shooting
On January 29, 2001, San José police arrested De Anza College student Al DeGuzman who planned a Columbine style school shooting at the school. At his home, police found bags filled with homemade explosives including Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs. They also discovered numerous guns, including a semi-automatic rifle and a cut-down 12-gauge pump-action shotgun. There were also plans for a noon attack at De Anza College.
Kelly Bennett, an employee at a Longs Drugs store in San Jose, developed pictures of DeGuzman posing with his guns and homemade bombs. She and a coworker called police, who arrived at the drugstore and waited for DeGuzman. He was arrested when he returned for his photos.
De Anza evacuated over 10,000 students the next day in fear that DeGuzman may have planted bombs at the college, though no bombs were ever found. In the following weeks, Kelly Bennett was praised and credited with averting a tragedy. She appeared on local news, Good Morning America, and The Today Show.
Some critics believe that DeGuzman had no intention of following through with the plan and that he intentionally photographed himself with his arsenal as a cry for help because of years of depression. He was sentenced to serve time in prison, but shortly after took his own life by hanging himself in his cell. [3]
Rape investigation
2007 De Anza rape investigation was a police inquiry into allegations of sexual assault of a 17-year-old student arising from an off-campus party on March 4, 2007 by eight members of the 2007 De Anza College baseball team. On June 4, 2007, Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr stated that no charges would be filed. This decision was questioned by many, and the Office of the Attorney General was invited by the prosecutor to perform an independent investigation of the available evidence. May 2, 2008, the Attorney General's office determined that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone present with a crime.
Internship
Other than De Anza College containing elite students, they also offer off site internships. One of the well known internships they have available to its students is at the NASA Ames Research Center. One of the positive things this internship contains is it is a paid internship as well as being 10 minutes away from the campus. The application process is quite simple; click on the link given below to proceed in becoming an intern at the NASA Ames Research Center which is located in Moffet Field located in Mountain View, CA.
This link http://internships.fhda.edu [11]is the direct website that contains the application that is needed in order to apply for the internships during the school year.
Notable Alumni
- Mervyn Fernandez, former professional football player
- Ron Gonzales, former mayor of San Jose.
- Teri Hatcher, actress
- Joe Murray, Emmy-winning creator of Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo
- Jeff Sevy, former NFL lineman
- Jhonen Vasquez, cartoonist
- Len Wiseman, film director
- Christina Kim, LPGA golf pro
- Bill Pecota, former Major League Baseball player
- Alexander Lee Eusebio, former member of popular South-Korean boy band, U-KISS
Certificates and A.A./A.S. degrees offered[12]
- Accounting/ Bookkeeping and Taxation
- Administration of Justice
- Administrative assistant/Office technology
- Animation History and Criticism
- Animation production
- Art
- Art History
- Auto Desk
- Automotive Chassis and Powertrain
- Automotive Chassis Technology
- Automotive Engine Performance
- Automotive Machining and Engine Repair
- Automotive Powertrain Technology
- Automotive Smog Technician
- Automotive Technician
- Automotive Technology
- Biodiversity Specialist
- Biological sciences
- Bookkeeping
- Business Administration
- Business Office clerk
- Business programming
- Business Software applications
- CAD/CAM mastercam
- Ceramics
- Child Development
- Computer Aided Design
- Computer Animation
- Computer Investigation and Security
- Computer Information Systems
- Computer Aided Numerical Control
- Corrections/Probation
- Database Design for Developers(Oracle)
- Early Childhood Mental Health
- Early Intervention/Special Education Assistant
- Energy Management and Climate Policy
- English
- Enterprise Security Professional
- Entrepreneurship
- Environmental Compliance and Pollution Prevention
- Environmental Stewardship
- Environmental Studies
- Film Production
- Film/Television Production: Animation Emphasis
- Film/Television Production: Screenwriting
- Film/Television Production: Television emphasis
- Global studies
- Graphic and Interactive Design
- Health Technologies
- Help Desk
- Home/Small Business Computer security
- Insurance and Coding
- Interactive Design
- Intercultural Studies
- Internet Literacy and research
- Journalism
- Lab Assisting
- Law enforcement
- Leadership and Social change
- Liberal arts
- Management
- Manufacturing and Computer-aided Numerical Control
- Manufacturing Systems Technician
- Marketing Management
- Massage Therapy
- Medical Assisting
- Medical File Clerk
- Medical Laboratory Technology
- Medical Reception
- Medical Records Clerk
- Medical Secretary
- Medical Transcription
- Museum Studies
- Music
- Network Administration
- Network Basics
- Network Programming
- Nursing Programs
- Painting
- Paralegal Studies
- Phlebotomy Technician
- Photographic Arts
- Private Security
- Product Model Making
- Programming Engineer
- Professional Photography
- Programming
- Programming in C and C++
- Programming in JAVA
- Programming in PERL
- Project Management Practitioner
- Real Estate
- Sculpture
- Solid Works
- Speech Communication
- System Support Services
- Systems Programming
- Taxation
- Technical Support/System Support Services
- Technical Writing
- Television Production
- UNIX/LINUX Operating System
- Visual Basic Programming
- Web Development
- Wildlife Corridor Technician
References
- ^ a b c De Anza College: Fast Facts
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/euphrat/abouttheeuphrat.html About Euphrat
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/vtour-gallery/vpac.html
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/rentals-vpac/
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/kirschcenter/
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/kirschcenter/goals-features.html
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/kirschcenter/programs.html
- ^ http://www.deanza.edu/puente/
- ^ http://internships.fhda.edu
- ^ http://daccatalog10.flipmymag.com/
External links
- De Anza official Web site
- De Anza Awards and Achievements
- La Voz - De Anza student newspaper
- Why De Anza
- DASB Student Government
- Euphrat Museum of Art
- Planetarium at De Anza College
- Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies
- Cheeseman Environmental Study Area
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