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college in the nation to develop its own Sustainability Management Plan to guide continual improvement. The college’s Environmental Studies Department, housed in the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies, has provided inspiration for the campus as the rst “green” demonstration building in the California community colleges. e department has developed an extensive sustainability curriculum leading to certi cates and degrees in four program areas. e Cheeseman Environmental Study Area contains several diversi ed ecosystems and is located next to the Kirsch Center for Environmental Studies.
De Anza College is committed to sustainable building materials and methods. Nine of its buildings have been certi ed as meeting national LEED building standards for environmental sustainability: the Kirsch Center and Media and Learning Center, LEED platinum; Baldwin Winery and the Visual & Performing Arts Center (VPAC), LEED silver; East Cottage, Multicultural Center, Registration & Student Services Building, Science Center and Seminar Building, LEED certi ed.
Among the comprehensive athletic facilities are a 5,000-seat stadium, aquatics complex, gymnasiums, and fields and courts. Specialized facilities include the De Anza Planetarium, which houses the only In nium S Star projector outside Japan, and the Flint Center, a 2,570- seat performing arts auditorium. ese buildings, as well as the VPAC, with its 400-seat performance and lecture hall and the Euphrat Museum of Art, the California History Center and other buildings across campus, are spaces for the extensive program of cultural and educational activities that contribute to the enrichment of the students and community.
De Anza’s state-of-the-art facilities have been made possible by community support of two bond measures: Measure E for $248 million was approved by Foothill- De Anza Community College District voters in 1999, and Measure C for $490.8 million was approved in 2006. In addition to construction, bond proceeds have funded extensive building renovations; upgrades of critical electrical and mechanical systems; installation of energy-producing solar ar- rays; and restoration of two historic campus landmarks: the old stone Baldwin Winery building, which now houses Financial Aid,
and the estate’s once-crumbling Trianon building, home to the college’s California History Center. Facilities are available for community rental.
COMMUNITY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Community and civic engagement is a focus of the college. e Institute for Community and Civic Engagement (ICCE) was launched in 2006 to work with students on civic and leadership skills and provide them with opportunities to be agents of social, economic and political change in their communities. In 2015, the ICCE was renamed the Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action (VIDA) in honor of the late state Sen. John Vasconcellos.
VIDA o ers a range of opportunities for students, including a certi cate in Leadership and Social Change. VIDA facilitates service learning for more than 2,000 students annually and maintains active relationships with more than 25 community partners that work with students in their service learning placements. Classes that include at least 12 hours of mandatory service are designated with an "S" and totaled on student transcripts. VIDA sponsors several initiatives and conferences where De Anza hosts hundreds of historically underrepresented high school students in learning about college and becoming active in the community. VIDA is working to promote a national initiative, e Democracy Commitment, to engage community college students in civic learning and democratic practice.
De Anza students also have extensive opportunities to become engaged through the active leadership of the De Anza Associated Student Body (DASB), which in addition to on-campus and community
activities mobilizes in statewide advocacy e orts for public higher education.
EQUITY, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION
De Anza College de nes student equity not as providing each student with the same support, but rather connecting with students, in their unique range of circumstances, and supporting them in their individual journeys to academic success.
To achieve this goal, the O ce of Equity, Social Justice and Multicultural Education partners with college leadership, faculty, classi ed professionals and the Equity Action Council to provide ongoing resources, measurements and focused attention on enhancing student success. De Anza College is committed to increasing transfer rates and the awarding of degrees and certi cates; improving access, course completion, course retention and persistence; and equalizing student success rates by gender, race, ethnicity and disability. e college works to address achievement and opportunity gaps by providing developmental opportunities and educational forums across the campus, and through the Equity O ce, enhancing the ability of faculty, classi ed professionals and administrators to provide culturally responsive support and guidance for students and each other, with the goal of creating a fully inclusive community. Using the philosophy and approach of social justice and multicultural education, student equity is achieved through rigorous ongoing accountable processes that will work toward ensuring equality of outcomes in all measurements of student access and achievement.
More information on the Equity O ce is available on page 11.
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