 Flint Center, the main auditorium 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. Image File history File links Flintcenter. ...
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In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a junior college, is an educational institution providing post-secondary education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and associates degrees. ...
Location Location of Cupertino within Santa Clara County, California. ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Juan Bautista de Anza Bezerra Nieto (July 1736 - December 19, 1788) was a Novo-Spanish explorer working for the Spanish empire. ...
This article is about the year 1776. ...
Apple Computer, Inc. ...
A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. Like many large cities, San Joses downtown is expansive and encompasses much more area than shown in this view. ...
The University of California (UC) is a public university system within the State of California. ...
The California State University (CSU) is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California. ...
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 De Anza 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, which also is the home of the San Jose Spiders of the NWBL. 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. The National Womens Basketball League or NWBL is an organization governing basketball leagues for women in the United States. ...
A Hupa man, 1923 The scope of this indigenous peoples of the Americas article encompasses the definitions of indigenous peoples and the Americas as established in their respective articles. ...
This article is about a Native American gathering. ...
USGS Satellite photo of the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ...
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. Foothill College is a community college located in Los Altos Hills, California and is part of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. ...
The 60-acre Packard orchard (now owned by the David and Lucile Salter Packard Foundation) View of Silicon Valley from the Hills, with Mission and Monument Peaks in the background Los Altos Hills is a town located in Santa Clara County, California. ...
See also: Student Liberation Front The Student Liberation Front (SLF), a secret group founded predominantly to cause mischief and humor, was first noticed during the late 1980s and early 1990s, generally at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay Area. ...
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