De Anza College is a public community college in Cupertino, California, United States. It is part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District, which also administers Foothill College in nearby Los Altos Hills, California. The college is named after the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza.
Academics
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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.
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 "bridging" of students to higher educations due to the program. 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.
thumb|right|A. Robert De Hart Learning Center
thumb|right|250px|Flint Center, the main auditorium
Career Technical Education
The school provides applied technology programs including automotive technology and design and manufacturing. The school also provides environmental studies, such as energy management, resource management, pollution prevention, and wildlife science.
Vasconcellos Institute of Democracy in Action
Formerly called the Institute of Community and Civic Engagement, the Vasconcellos Institute of Democracy in Action (VIDA) is the community service learning and civic engagement office. VIDA coordinates Community Learning Partnership's work at De Anza.
Established as the ICCE in fall 2005, It was initiated by then new president, Brian Murphy and was led by faculty members Jackie Reza and Cynthia Kaufman. In 2015 the ICCE was renamed VIDA in tribute to John Vasconcellos.
Buildings on campus
The Flint Center for the Performing Arts
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The Flint Center is De Anza's main theater, seating about 2,400 people, and hosts concerts, Broadway shows, dance and speaking events. Each year, De Anza invites several celebrities and dignitaries for public speaking engagements. Construction began in 1968 and the building was dedicated in 1971 as the Calvin C. Flint Center for the Performing Arts, named after the District Superintendent and first Chancellor, The Flint Center also has classrooms and was home to the Film and TV department in its early years.
Steve Jobs introduced the original Macintosh in a January 1984 press conference in the center (which was recreated in 2015 for the movie Steve Jobs) and the iMac in 1998. In January 1985, Jobs came back to Flint Center to introduce the LaserWriter laser printer and its built-in PostScript technology, which launched the desktop publishing revolution of the 1980s.
The Foothill DeAnza Board has voted to close the Flint Center and tear it down. The last event in the facility was June 22, 2019.
Euphrat Museum of Art
The mission of the Euphrat Museum of Art is to stimulate creativity and an interest in art among audiences of all ages.
Hank Baum wrote in the California Art Review: