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.
For a quick overview of Foothill and De Anza's early history, please watch this short video:
For more detailed information about the early history of our two colleges, please click on the links below:
Foothill College: The First 25 Years
De Anza College: 35th Anniversary History
To view some samples from our photo collection, watch this slideshow on YouTube:
Foothill and De Anza - Beginnings
Foothill and De Anza Colleges: The First Fifty Years.
This link below will open a PDF version of a 50th Anniversary booklet providing a brief history of the district from 1958-2008. The booklet was distributed along with the "First Fifty Years" video as a DVD set: