CLP Site Profile -- DeAnza Community College, Cupertino/San Jose

 

Partners:

• DeAnza Community College
• Other partners to be identified

Type of Program and Description:

1. Certificate Program in Social Justice and Leadership
2. AA Degree in Community Change Studies

Status:

• The certificate program has been approved
• With support from the President, Dean and a faculty team, the college will be exploring whether to create an AA program in Community Change Studies
• Plans also call for exploring collaboration and articulation agreements with one or more four-year colleges so that DeAnza graduates with these backgrounds can continue developing their knowledge and skills in Community Change Studies during their junior and senior years

Support Services for the Program:

• To be designed

Other Innovations:

• DeAnza's leadership and faculty are strongly committed to promoting student activism, organizing and community engagement
• Because of its large immigrant and second generation student body, DeAnza is developing relationships with academic institutions in Vietnam, China, Mexico and other countries, and those relationships may result in opportunities for student exchange, joint projects and other educational experiences
• DeAnza has a very active recruitment program for people of color, sending recruiters into African American and other heavily minority high schools, using Black, Latino and Asian-American radio programs and other media, etc.

Contact Information:

• Brian Murphy, President, DeAnza Community College
• Edmundo Norte, Director, Office of Diversity and Institute for Community and Civic Engagement, DeAnza Community College