Budget cuts cause relocation of longtime Foothill College employee, students protest
Devaki Dikshit, Managing Editor
January 10, 2019
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life
Budget cuts that have been impacting the Foothill De - Anza district since the beginning of 2018 have halved the budgets of the Teaching and Learning Center and the STEM center for winter quarter, leading to significant hour reductions and position cuts. Al Guzman, who has worked at Foothill College...
Unhealthy air at Foothill College: The impact of exposure
Devaki Dikshit, Managing Editor
November 19, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News
Smoke from the wildfire in Butte County has resulted in dangerous air quality throughout the Bay Area -- on Thursday evening, the Air Quality Index in Los Altos measured between 230 and 250 according to AirNow, a service of the EPA. Foothill College, along with universities and school districts statewide,...
Foothill College will open Tuesday and Wednesday
Sarah Hamidi, Staff Writer
November 19, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News
After three days of campus closures, Foothill College will resume classes on Tuesday and Wednesday. “Due to improved conditions for the rest of the week (and need to resume the teaching and learning process for students), Foothill College will open its campuses tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday. Face ...
Foothill College campuses will remain closed Monday
Sarah Hamidi and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 19, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News
A Foothill-De Anza District emergency notification sent to students at 4:27 p.m. stated that classes will be canceled on Monday, Nov. 19, due to poor air quality. Though air quality in the Bay Area has improved slightly, district leadership decided to close campus “in abundance of caution for heal...
Thousand Oaks vigil: Students and faculty stand in unity
Kathy Honcharuk and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 18, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News
On Nov. 13, a vigil in memory of the victims of the mass shooting in Thousand Oaks was held at the Foothill College library quad. Foothill College President Thuy Nguyen gave a speech expressing compassion and grief for those affected by the 307th mass shooting this year according to The Gun Violence Archive. “[It] is un...
Where to find clean air, free masks in the South Bay Area
Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky, Editor-in-Chief
November 16, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News
As air quality continues to worsen in the San Francisco Bay Area, cities have opened public spaces for anyone seeking refuge from wildfire smoke blanketing Northern California. Air pollutants from the Camp Fire have created very unhealthy or hazardous conditions in the region expected to continue thro...
Twenty-one faculty positions to be eliminated, health insurance under threat
Carina Thanh-Ngoc DeLorenzo and Liza Mamedov-Turchinsky
November 12, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News, Politics
A number of part-time faculty positions are slated to be eliminated at the end of this year. Insurance and other benefits hang in the balance.
Proposition 11, promoted as a public safety measure, disguises a labor dispute
David Pitt, Staff Writer
November 5, 2018
Filed under Featured, Local News, Politics
Proposition 11 resurfaces a decades-long debate over labor conditions between emergency workers and medical response companies.
How to register to vote
Logan Keifling and Script Staff
October 22, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Local News, Politics
The deadline for voter registration in California is today, Oct. 22.
New Student Groups Hunt Recruits at Club Day
David Pitt, Staff Writer
October 14, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life
Debuting student groups squeezed flyers and posters into a crowded tabletop showcase for Club Day last week, hoping to gain visibility and recruit members. Brand new, quarter old, and year old clubs competed with about 30 long-established groups for audience attention. Though they started small, newc...
Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series Opens 19th Season at Foothill College
Dominick Lanni, Staff Writer
October 13, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Science + Tech
The Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series at Foothill College returned for a 19th season last week with a talk by Dr. Claire Max, a Bachmann Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, and Director of the UC Observatories. The series kicked off with a discussion ab...
The Story of Work-to-Contract
Daniel Jacobson, Staff Writer
June 20, 2018
Filed under Featured, Foothill Life, Politics
“Fellow faculty, At the negotiations session this afternoon, FA and the District reached a tentative agreement for compensation for 2017-18 and 2018-19. While all the details are not yet finalized, we are happy to announce that the work to contract is over.” The previous email was sent o...
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