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ABOUT THE FOOTHILL-DE ANZA ARCHIVE

Foothill College Campus 19XX View of parking area with campus center and Los Altos HIlls in the background De Anza College Campus View 1967 with horseback rider

The Foothill-De Anza Community College District (FHDA) Archive serves as a repository for the historical records documenting the founding and evolution of the the District and its two colleges.

THE FHDA ARCHIVE INCLUDES:

Governing documents and architectural records
Sentinel, La Voz, and Script student newspapers
Course Catalogs and Schedules of Classes
Correspondence and memoranda
Biographical material of faculty and staff
Reports, surveys, and studies
Publications, handbooks, programs, and newsletters
Promotional items
Photographs and audio visual material
Scrapbooks and news clippings
Oral history tapes and transcripts

Mission

To serve as the institutional memory of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District by appraising, collecting, preserving, organizing, and describing records and documents of significant historical,legal and administrative value to the District and its two colleges. To develop practical application for the collections of the Archive and make records and documents accessible to administrators, faculty, staff, students and the community at large.