De Anza College
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De Anza College is a 112 acre (453,000 m²) 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 (who passed through the area in 1776). 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. The course rigor and quality has earned it a nickname "UC De Anza" or "UC Cupertino."
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. The current president of De Anza college is Brian Murphy. The average class size at DeAnza is 30, and approximately 2,800 students transfer per year. It also attracts a heavy international student population.
Each year, De Anza invites several celebrities and dignitaries for public speaking engagements at its main theater, the Flint Center. Each May, the Native American Studies department hosts a pow-wow on campus. The pow-wow is the second largest in the Bay Area each year, following the Stanford University Pow-wow held earlier in the month.
De Anza is part of the De Anza-Foothill Community College District, which also administers Foothill College in nearby Los Altos Hills, California. The district headquarters is on the Foothill campus.
See also: Student Liberation Front
External link
- De Anza official website (http://www.deanza.edu)
- Why De Anza (http://www2.fhda.edu/about/special.html)
- De Anza Pow-wow (http://www.deanzapowwow.org)