News @ De Anza

De Anza has been awarded $1.55 million in state funding over the next five years for a new cohort program to support historically underrepresented students who want to transfer in STEM majors.

With help from a three-year, $1.2 million state grant, De Anza's Child Development and Education Department is expanding an innovative apprenticeship program that offers students the opportunity to get paid while they work and take classes in their field.

The latest installment in De Anza's Video Help Series (VHS) takes a light approach to showing students how to use the new course registration interface that's now available for spring quarter.

Three members of the De Anza College community will be honored this month with Excellence Awards from the national League for Innovation in the Community College. The recipients were selected for their outstanding service to the college.

De Anza is pleased to welcome two important authors who will be speaking with campus audiences next week: Attorney and activist Steve Phillips will speak about anti-racist organizing and Pulitzer finalist Tommy Orange will discuss his novel with a Puente Learning Community class.

A new video celebrates the creation of "Stronger Together" - a mural honoring De Anza's student veterans that was painted last fall outside the Veteran Services office in the Seminar Building on the west side of campus.

Everyone is welcome to drop by their new Village Space for a Valentine's Day open house on Tuesday, Feb. 14. Village Spaces are physical locations on campus where students can hang out or meet with other students, faculty and staff in their Village.

The Black Faculty, Staff and Administrators Network (BFSA) invites the De Anza College community to a special event this Thursday honoring the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. ... Plus: Funding to train future community leaders, this year's Excellence Award winners and a new mural honoring student veterans.

De Anza College will host the Jan. 26 kickoff for the 2023 Silicon Valley Reads campaign, with an on-campus author event and Euphrat exhiibition tied to the theme of "Journey to New Beginnings."

Backed by a three-year, $354,000 grant from the state, De Anza has begun making a concerted effort to provide support for students who have been incarerated or had other experience with the criminal justice system.