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Here’s the link to register for a FREE ASCCC HyFlex Friday March 11 webinar, 12 pm-1pm!! Please join us, everyone! Learn what HyFlex (teaching BOTH in person AND online synchronously from a tech-enabled classroom)is and best practices from experienced HyFlex trainers, best practices, and time for some q&a. If you have any questions ahead of time, please post them here on the comments below!

ASCCC Online Education Committee Lunch Hour Virtual Connect & Chat: HYFLEX | ASCCC Friday, March 11, 2022 - 12:00pm Register for Online Education Committee Lunch Hour Virtual Connect & Chat: HYFLEX: March 11, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. What is a Hyflex course? What is involved in teaching Hyflex? In this Zoom webinar, we will have experienced Hyflex instructor/trainer answer the...

This was fun to gift/buy for all 32 De Anza faculty tenure candidates ahead of the Zoom Tenure Celebration today.....

Relying on Community Values: How One School Leader Advocates for Vulnerable Families Carissa Purnell’s work at the Family Resource Centers in Salinas, Calif., is a lifeline for families, many of them migrant farm workers.

Jill Biden to make history as 1st first lady to hold paid job outside the White House Biden has said she plans to continue her teaching career as first lady.

Amanda Gorman, 22, recited her poem “The Hill We Climb” at today’s inauguration, becoming the youngest inaugural poet ever in the United States. Read her full poem below:

Mr. President, Dr. Biden, Madam VP, Mr. Emhoff, Americans and the world:

When day comes we ask ourselves
Where can we find light in this never-ending shade?
The loss we carry,
A sea we must wade.
We braved the belly of the beast;
We’ve learned that quiet isn’t always peace.
And the norms and notions of what just is
Isn’t always justice. And yet the dawn is ours before we knew it.
Somehow we do it;
Somehow we’ve weathered and witnessed
A nation that isn’t broken but simply unfinished.
We, the successors of a country and a time
Where a skinny black girl descended from slaves
And raised by a single mother can dream of becoming president,
Only to find herself reciting for one. And yes we are far from polished, far from pristine,
But that doesn’t mean we aren’t striving to form a union that is perfect.
We are striving to forge a union with purpose,
To compose a country committed to all cultures, colors, characters and conditions of man.
And so we lift our gaze not to what stands between us,
But what stands before us.
We close the divide, because we know to put our future first.
We must first put our differences aside,
We lay down our arms
So we can reach out our arms to one another.
We seek harm to none and harmony for all.
Let the globe, if nothing else, say this is true: That even as we grieved, we grew,
That even as we hurt, we hoped,
That even as we tired, we tried,
That we’ll forever be tied together, victorious—
Not because we will never again know defeat
But because we will never again sow division.
Scripture tells us to envision
That everyone shall sit under their own vine and fig tree,
And no one shall make them afraid.
If we’re to live up to our own time,
then victory won’t lie in the blade but in all the bridges we’ve made.
That is the promised glade,
The hill we climb if only we dare it.
Because being American is more than a pride we inherit,
It’s the past we step into and how we repair it.
We’ve seen a force that would shatter our nation rather than share it,
Would destroy our country if it meant delaying democracy.
And this effort very nearly succeeded,
But while democracy can be periodically delayed
It can never be permanently defeated.
In this truth, in this faith we trust,
For while we have our eyes on the future, history has its eyes on us.
This is the era of just redemption.
We feared at its inception.
We did not feel prepared to be the heirs of such a terrifying hour,
But within it we found the power
To author a new chapter,
To offer hope and laughter,
To ourselves sow. While once we asked:
How could we possibly prevail over catastrophe?
Now we assert: How could catastrophe possibly prevail over us? We will not march back to what was,
But move to what shall be,
A country that is bruised but whole,
Benevolent but bold,
Fierce and free.
We will not be turned around or interrupted by intimidation
Because we know our inaction and inertia will be the inheritance of the next generation.
Our blunders become their burdens
But one thing is certain:
If we merge mercy with might and might with right,
Then love becomes our legacy
And change our children’s birthright.
So let us leave behind a country better than the one we were left.
With every breath of my bronze pounded chest,
We will raise this wounded world into a wondrous one.
We will rise from the golden hills of the West.
We will rise from the windswept Northeast where our forefathers first realized revolution.
We will rise from the lakeland cities of the Midwestern states.
We will rise from the sunbaked south.
We will rebuild, reconcile and recover
In every known nook of our nation,
In every corner called our country,
Our people, diverse and beautiful,
Will emerge battered and beautiful.
When day comes we step out of the shade,
Aflame and unafraid.
The new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it,
If only we’re brave enough to be it.

I took the time to go behind the paywall to copy and paste the entire article because it is important for all of us to read:

Author: Theresa Vargas is a local columnist for The Washington Post. Before coming to The Post, she worked at Newsday in New York. She has degrees from Stanford University and Columbia University School of Journalism.

When I was about 6, my grandma decided to take my older sister, several of my cousins and me to work with her.

For other kids, that might have meant heading into some office building. For us, it meant spending the night in a house bigger than any of us had ever stepped inside before.

To this day, I vividly remember aspects of that house: rooms decorated with museum-worthy paintings, a patio crowded with more toys than anyone I knew owned, and so many bathrooms it seemed no one would ever have to knock on a door and plead with the person on the other side to hurry up.

My Mexican American grandma, who worked as a housekeeper there for decades, was responsible for cleaning all of that: the floors of those art-adorned rooms, the sliding glass doors leading to that patio, those many toilets.

I have no idea, and she is no longer alive for me to ask, whether she took us on that overnight trip just to keep her company while her employer was away or for some larger purpose, but it was a pivotal moment in my life. It was the first time I realized that a divide existed between the wealthy and the working-hard-to-get-by.

I also knew — at some level then, and at a deeper level in college, when I threw myself into studying the cycle of poverty — that the reasons for that went beyond individual capabilities and work ethic.

My grandma was brilliant. She surrounded herself with books and newspapers and could speak with authority in two languages about history and current events. But she was forced to drop out of school in eighth grade by her family’s financial circumstances. Because of that, she started working at an early age and continued to do so long after her hair turned white and her posture grew bent.

On Jan. 6, I found myself thinking a lot about her for two reasons: What would have been her 100th birthday was days away, and as soon as I saw those rabid rioters storm through the U.S. Capitol, I knew who was going to have to clean up their mess.

We all knew.

The photos taken of the custodial staff in the hours after the Capitol came under siege are some of the most powerful images from that day. They show people carting away trash, sweeping floors and mopping who-knows-what from stairways, so that lawmakers could get back to work and affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

But even before those pictures were published, and people started sharing them widely across social media, we all knew the trash, blood and f***s left behind by that mostly White mob of Trump supporters would fall to Brown and Black workers to clear away.

We knew because they are the people who disproportionately fill those types of jobs in this country.

Right now, the people who cleaned the Capitol that night are getting a lot of attention — and rightfully so.

A woman who used to teach in Montgomery County and now has a huge Instagram following as “America’s Government Teacher” recently asked people to send thank-you notes to the custodial staff.

“In order to resume our democracy after death, after bloodshed, after destruction and tears. . . . The Capitol building first needed to be cleaned,” Sharon McMahon posted on her page. “It needed to be cleaned by the brave men and women who did the work no one should have to do. They did it despite having just lived through a workplace shooting. They did it without recognition. As a government teacher, this stirred my heart. As an American, it brought tears to my eyes. Democracy was undeterred, thanks in part to the service and sacrifice of the people who cleaned the United States Capitol.”

She told people where they could send notes — to either the Architect of the Capitol, which employs the workers, or to the AFSCME Local 626 union, which represents them — and encouraged them to share photos using the hashtag .

A look at some that have been posted so far shows handmade cards colored by children and thoughtful words penned by adults.

They are poignant and powerful.

“No one should have to do the work you did — but in doing so you allowed us to all pick up the pieces and move forward,” reads one. “For that, I offer my deepest gratitude. We are all so thankful.”

One that features a drawing of the sun shining over the Capitol and a smiling figure in the corner reads: “I’m sorry you had to clean it when you did not make the mess. My name is Charlotte. I’m almost 8. I’m going to be 8 on the 20th, the day of inauguration.”

People in a usually thankless job are getting thanked — and that is an especially bright ray of light to come from that dark day.

We could leave the race and ethnicity of the people on the receiving end of that gratitude completely out of the conversation.

But from the moment people started sharing those photos, race and ethnicity entered the conversation. In one social media post after another, people noted the contrast between who had forced their way into the building and who restored it.

We also know that among those who breached the Capitol were white nationalists and white supremacists who believe they are better, and deserve better, than the people of color around them.

We can’t change what happened that day, but going forward, we have a choice: We can denounce what they believe with words or with concrete actions that push against the societal, financial and educational inequities that keep the disparities they embrace in place.

Issues that affect those custodial staff members and their families come before the public and lawmakers all the time. They come in calls for better wages, pushes for judicial reform, pleas for resources aimed at keeping children from low-income neighborhoods from falling behind and out of school. They come in public health experts warning about the disproportionate number of Latinos and Black people who have been dying from covid-19.

There is no shame in cleaning for a living. My grandma’s job kept her table topped with enough food to feed generations of my family. But there is shame in knowing before we see the photos what the cleaning crew will look like and feeling okay with keeping it that way.

When we talk about racial and ethnic representation and gaps, we often look at high-paying jobs and start counting. Those are important figures. It matters how many Black doctors work in hospitals. It matters how many Latino judges serve in court systems. But it also matters who is clustered in low-wage jobs and how far those figures stray from the general population.

The workers at the Capitol cleaned up a disgraceful mess that day. They deserve our thanks. They also deserve for us to not look away from the messes that remain.

Perspective | People are sending thank you cards to the Capitol’s cleaning crew. They deserve our gratitude. They deserve more. One of the cards comes from a girl who will turn 8 on Inauguration Day.

Happy Finals & Winter Break! We made it!

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42 Of The Wildest, Funniest, And Most Heartwarming Online School Moments That Happened In 2020 Don't forget to mute, people!

Perspective | The Wall Street Journal column about Jill Biden is worse than you thought Columnist Joseph Epstein suggested Dr. Jill Biden should drop her honorific. She should use it forever.

Last night was an incredible Taste of History event featuring artists, poets, campus and local community faculty, administrators, and advocates being together, sharing work and inspirations, and building a beautiful healing community to reclaim our humanity:
Watch recording of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRrrUlrzVBQ&feature=youtu.be

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Excited to share this new event series that a few of us have collaborated on....really appreciate all the faculty and campus collaborators, organizers, and sponsors, as well as De Anza Office of Communications for creating the excellent logo and website!

Arts & Activism Join us for a series of screenings, talks and exhibitions focused on the power of art to illuminate and inspire important forces for change in our community and beyond.

Please inform all your De Anza students!:

Are you ready for Mentors@De Anza's first Transfer Panel on Saturday, September 26th from 12:30 - 2:30 PM (PST)? Here is everything you need to know to be part of the event.

12:30 - 1:30 PM (PST) will be the General Q&A with an opening speech by our President Lloyd Holmes.
1:30 - 2:30 PM (PST) will be individual Q&A with a different stream for each panelist.
You can access all the sessions of this panel via YouTube Live on our Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY-hma9r0n6aJPOJ6IH8mTA.

Since we have a large attendance, we are sending out this form to get your questions early: https://forms.gle/KPMQELHCMFPg7jsF7. You can direct your question to one panelist or all of them.

Head over to our Events page to meet the panelists: https://www.facebook.com/events/600954500790830/?active_tab=discussion. You can RSVP to all our Transfer Panels now at https://forms.gle/wyzHr7PoWgZeUmxc6.

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Welcome, President Holmes!

New De Anza president vows commitment to inclusion “I want students to feel like they are at home when they are at De Anza,” Holmes said.The Foothill-De Anza Community College District Board of Trustees voted unanimously last month to appoint Holmes as De Anza College’s new president. He started July 1 and took over for current interim pre

don't miss this!! Streaming free right now on this site & PBS POV for this month. I'm watching both parts 1&2 right now & it's SO great

Co-Directed by Grace Lee and Executive Produced By Ava DuVernay

And She Could Be Next A story of a defiant movement of women of color, transforming politics from the ground up.

From President Holmes I am so very pleased to be with you – albeit virtually – on my first day as president of De Anza College. On this day, I’m reminded of the first assignment I’ve given to every class I’ve taught: an essay titled “This Is Who I Am.” I hope, over time, to learn about who each of you are. ...

EXCELLENT virtual celebration of our 2020 De Anza Graduates!!

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LATEST STATEMENT DRAFT HERE linked on Academic Senate June 8 agenda: https://www.deanza.edu/gov/academicsenate/meetings/2020-06-08.html

Here is a link to a statement I have drafted which I would like to present at the June 8 De Anza Academic Senate meeting for a first reading. I welcome your Comments for suggested edits and your responses on this version of the draft.

Statement of Solidarity With Black Lives Matter and De Anza College Students and Faculty Who Are Struggling and Protesting During These Difficult Times in 2020 Statement of Solidarity With Black Lives Matter and De Anza College Students and Faculty Who Are Struggling and Protesting During These Difficult Times in 2020 As of June 3, 2020, there have been many publicly shared inspiring statements of solidarity with, and support for, the Black Lives Mat...

Welcome to Dr. Lloyd Holmes, our new De Anza President!

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President Search Chancellor Judy C. Miner sent the following email to De Anza College faculty, classified professional staff and administrators on Wednesday, May 27, outlining the reasons why she is recommending Lloyd C. Holmes to be appointed as De Anza College's next president by the Foothill-De Anza district b...

With 40 years of teaching, Jim touched thousands of students, comment below if you were one of those students or a colleague! De Anza Academic Senate John Swensson

Gifts in his memory will support De Anza College's financial aid contingency fund as well as The Jim Luotto Writing Award given by De Anza's English Department. You can make a gift here at: https://secure.donationpay.org/fhda/ and type Jim Luotto under In memory of.

Women’s Studies help students and faculty navigate online, they have had practice Amid the transition to online learning due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, De Anza College’s women’s studies department is offering guidance to instructors and students alike since it has taught primarily online for years. Marc Coronado, chair of the women’s studies department at DeAn...

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If you believe that California community colleges are the engine of our state's economic recovery, please take a moment to contact your legislators and tell them how important it is to prioritize our funding. This is not the time to defund community colleges.

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