Volume 59, Issue 1
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
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Students walk out for Gaza PHOTO BY ANN PENALOSA
District reallocates $20 million from De Anza Events Center to Foothill Dental Hygiene Clinic
Students and faculty from Foothill’s dental hygiene and dental assistance programs wear purple masks to the board meeting. By Shreya Rallabandi Measure G fund, was LA VOZ STAFF allocated for De Anza Of $75 million desigpriorities. nated for a De Anza Event The decision includes Center to replace the Flint an understanding that the Center, $20 million has district has the right to been allocated to Foothill reallocate $200 million College’s dental clinic. designated to employee The decision was made and student affordable during the May 6 Foothillhousing to additional inDe Anza Community frastructure needs “if and College Board of Trustees when the need arises,” meeting. Board President Peter The remaining $55 Landsberger said. million, taken from the Continued on page 2
Part-time faculty treated as second-class citizens By Leila Salam LA VOZ STAFF
PHOTO BY LION KIM PARK
De Anza students walk out in support of Palestine on May 9.
By Xitlaly Martinez and Allan Galeana LA VOZ STAFF
Around 60 protesters gathered in De Anza College’s main quad on May 9 for a “Walkout & Art Build for Palestine” event. The group held Palestinian flags, keffiyehs – traditional Palestinian headdresses – and signs calling for the end of the United States’ aid
to Israel. “I think that the diversity in this walkout is beautiful and I think it’s a show of humanity, empathy and acknowledging a humanitarian cause,” a speaker from the Muslim Student Association said to those who gathered. Protests on college campuses across America are calling for divestments of weapons manufacturers and a ceasefire in Gaza. This
event aimed to pressure the administration to speak about Palestine, said Xitlaly, a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation who declined to give their last name. “We are demanding that De Anza pass a ceasefire resolution, as we know they have spoken about Ukraine, so we know they can say something about Palestine,” the Xitlaly said.
The De Anza Student Government issued a statement condemning violations of international law in regards to the war in Ukraine, previously. Since March 2, 2022, De Anza’s website links resources to extend humanitarian aid for people in the Ukraine.
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When students take a class, many of them don’t stop to think about whether their instructor is part-time or full-time. However, though the quality of the professor isn’t necessarily different, the way parttime faculty are treated varies wildly from their full-time counterparts. “We have one group of faculty who are paid pretty well and have a lot of prestige and a lot of tenure protections and then we have part-time faculty who do not (have those things),” said John Fox, a former De Anza part-time faculty member and current Foothill fulltime sociology instructor. “I don’t think the students really know about the inequities (part-time faculty experience).”
In the Foothill-De Anza district, and in higher education across the country, part-time faculty currently make up the majority of faculty, part-time anthropology and gender studies professor Daniel Solomon said. The stated goal in California, as part of Assembly Bill 1725, passed in 1989, is for 75% of instruction to be covered by full-time faculty and 25% by part-timers. At FHDA, part-time faculty make up 63% of all faculty, according to data from Faculty Association office manager Susanne Elwell. The Faculty Association is FHDA’s faculty union. As far as instruction, part-time faculty teach just over 50% of credit courses, chief FA negotiator Kathy Perino said. Continued on page 3
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