The Foothill-De Anza Community College District Archive
Foothill College, under construction, in 1961.
De Anza College, under construction, in 1966.
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
Our Mission
To serve as the institutional memory of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District by appraising, collecting, preserving, organizing, describing and sharing records and documents of significant historical, legal and administrative value to the District and its two colleges. In addition, we seek to develop practical application for the collections of the Archives and make records and documents accessible to administrators, faculty, staff, students and the community at large.