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  1. Online courses begin Wednesday, July 15th. Busy? Students may enroll in classes up to a week after the start date.
  2. Summer is flying by - our EY Youth Program ends this week. 4 weeks up, 4 weeks down. Thank you to all our parents, students, and teachers!
  3. The catalog is officially in production - some changes in store for Fall 2009. And change is most certainly a good thing!
  4. The first week of Extended Year has gone extremely well. A great group of kids. FYI, there will be no classes on July 3rd.
  5. Next session of online courses will begin Wed., June 17 - http://www.ed2go.com/fhda/
  6. We've seen a significant rise in online course enrollment from this point last year ~30%.
  7. Our office is packed with supplies as our staff begins to prepare for the summer program to kick off with teacher prep day held on Friday.
  8. At a Northern CA conference of community colleges discussing state of community education and discussing Twitter. Hosted by Chabot College.
  9. The final day of walk-in registration has been brisk. Quite a few folks are coming through. We've closed a number of classes today.
  10. Steady stream of walk-n reg. traffic all week. One more day of reg. on Monday and then we begin to get the school sites ready for summer.
  11. EY walk-in registration began this morning. Steady traffic. We had up to 30 people in line at one point. Classes are filling for summer.
  12. We are building our Fall 2009 courses - We expect a number of new business & career classes. Oh, and food & wine too!
  13. Walk in registration for summer youth programs begins on Mon., 6/1 from 10am-2pm in Comm. Ed Office in SCS building at De Anza College.
  14. The next round of online classes begins on Wednesday, May 20th. Students may enroll up to one week after the start date.
  15. Our summer youth classes are filling up fast - check out: http://extendedyear.deanza.edu
  16. There are going to be a number of tough decisions to make next quarter. Quite a few new class proposals to review. Great problem to have.
  17. We had a great conversation with Chef Nanci Wokas today. Expect some GREAT cooking classes next quarter. Stay tuned.
  18. And the next great short course will be - propose a new course @ http://www.shortcourses.fhd...
  19. 4/25 is our last Saturday for Spring 2009. We now begin planning for our summer youth program and Fall 2009 classes.
  20. Build It With Wood! Small class size. Project oriented. New session begins on Sat., 4/25 through 6/13, A72 - De Anza Campus.