Foothill-De Anzafor Every Stage of Life.
High school students · Transfer students · Working adults · Career changers · Students with disabilities · Lifelong learners
Protect what works. Remove barriers. Prepare Foothill-De Anza for what comes next.
Priorities
Students First.Future-Ready Education.Rooted in Community.
My priorities are centered on three goals: putting students first by removing barriers and expanding affordable, accessible, flexible, and inclusive learning; preparing students for an AI-powered and rapidly changing world; and providing accountable, community-rooted leadership with prudent stewardship of public resources.
01Students First — Affordable and Accessible Education
Remove practical barriers and expand affordable, accessible, flexible, and inclusive learning for students at every stage of life.
- Lower practical barriers. Reduce barriers unrelated to academics, including textbook costs, limited schedules, and technology needs.
- Offer flexible ways to learn. Offer online, hybrid, evening, weekend, and short-term classes with strong instructor engagement and learning communities.
- Expand access for students with disabilities. Explore 18–22 transition programs on Foothill and De Anza campuses and expand opportunities for adults with disabilities.
- Explore practical housing options. Explore affordable housing for students and employees through partnerships and creative approaches such as home sharing.
- Serve students at every stage of life. High school students, transfer students, working adults, career changers, students with disabilities, and lifelong learners.
Technology should support—not replace—teachers and human connection.
02Future-Ready Education
Keep strong academics at the foundation while building AI literacy, durable human skills, work-based learning, and adaptable pathways to degrees and careers.
- Build AI literacy and durable human skills. Communication, critical thinking, creativity, judgment, collaboration, civic understanding, and problem solving.
- Prepare every field for technological change. Help students understand how AI and technology are changing their professions and society, and how to use AI thoughtfully for learning, creativity, and problem solving.
- Expand work-based learning. Strengthen K–12 and employer partnerships for internships, apprenticeships, paid work-based learning, and workforce training.
- Create stackable pathways. Build certificates and versatile pathways to degrees and careers.
- Prepare students to keep adapting. Help students keep learning, retrain, and adapt as careers change throughout their lives.
03Community-Rooted Leadership
Keep Foothill and De Anza responsive to students and residents through transparent decision-making, prudent stewardship, fair local access, and strong community connections.
- Make decision-making transparent and accessible. Support two-way hybrid Board meetings and easy-to-find recordings.
- Practice prudent stewardship. Provide strong oversight of funding and resources, including voter-approved bond funds.
- Protect fair local access. Study legally sound ways to ensure local students have fair access to high-demand classes.
- Keep the colleges rooted in community. Make Foothill and De Anza community anchors for civic dialogue, culture, innovation, and community engagement.
My Commitment
I will listen carefully, ask tough questions, respect different perspectives, and make decisions based on facts, fairness, and common sense. My approach is practical: find workable solutions, pilot and expand what works, and follow through.
My goal is to help Foothill-De Anza remain academically strong while becoming more affordable, accessible, flexible, inclusive, connected to our community, and prepared for what comes next.