Initial Stories

Below are links to the nine stories created at our two-day strategic planning meeting held May 11 and 12, 2006. The stories are identified by their newspaper headings.

The Steering Committee made an attempt to pull out themes that were consistant across stories. These themes were used to form the Transformation Initiatives (TIs) that will be the college's initial future story.

Preliminary story themes:

1. Focus on attracting under-represented student populations (primarily Latinos and 60+).
2. Focus on remediation/readiness primarily through more mentoring (including linking seniors with traditional college-age students), community outreach (including business and K-12 partnerships), and better coordination within De Anza (counseling, Financial Aid, etc.).
3. Make/continue a commitment to sound environmental practices.
4. Use technology to support 1-3 above, especially by making courses and student services more readily available and flexible. Many talked about an "anytime, anywhere" campus or "24/7" offerings.
5. Develop partnerships with the community to allow us to better accomplish 1-4 above.

All of the documents listed here are in Portable Document Format (PDF). If Adobe Reader is not already installed on your computer, you will need to download and install it to view PDF files.

• De Anza College closes two gaps in education
• De Anza stuns nation with 92% completion rate
• Doogle's CFO donates $20 million to her alma mater, De Anza College
• Fastest growing populations find success at De Anza College together!
• De Anza community overwhelmingly supports parcel tax: a landslide victory for the community
• Yolanda Arroyo, recently elected President of the United States, got her start at De Anza College
• De Anza College basks in glory with passage of state legislation to fund “the real cost of education”
• De Anza College creates successful whole-systems approach to community education
• De Anza College: a learning community without boundaries