Winter 2021 | February 16, 2021
Bi-Weekly Newsletter
Black History Month Celebration: Sol Affirmations

Karega Bailey is an angel parent, a social-emotional healing practitioner, and an award-winning educator and recording artist. He is a nationally renowned Peace Advocate and the Founding Dean of Culture of Roses in Concrete Community School in Oakland, CA. He is the author of SOL Affirmations and co-founder and lead facilitator for BE-Imaginative, a transformative safe space led by a collective of artists and activists dedicated to disrupting gun violence and healing Black and Brown communities through innovative multi-dimensional storytelling. Karega’s performance, conversation and reflections derives from his affirmation book titled, SOL Affirmations.

Join by Zoom on Wednesday, February 17 from Noon – 1 p.m.

ASFC Student Concerns Town Hall

ASFC will host a student town hall monthly throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, discussing student needs and concerns through panelist talks and open discussion forums for audience members to publicly ask questions, share stories, and more.

The goal of these town halls is to assess student needs and for ASFC and the administration to follow up with actionable items to alleviate these concerns.

Join by Zoom on February 17, 2021 from 11 a.m. - Noon
 
Bring your student concerns for discussion to our next Foothill Student Town Hall.

Stanford Summer Community College Premedical Program (SSCCPP)

The Stanford Summer Community College Premedical Program (SSCCPP) targets current community college students considered low-income and/or underrepresented in medicine providing exposure to medicine and health through topics in health disparities, leadership challenges in health provision and administration, science success strategies, professional development, clinical exposure, successful preparation for the medical school application process, postsecondary and graduate/professional school financing.

How to Apply
  • Application opens: December 1, 2020, 11:59pm.
  • Application closes: March 1, 2021, 11:59pm
  • SSCCPP Application Link
Getting Involved in the STEM community

SLI and Foothill's Outreach Office will be co-hosting a STEM Workshop. The workshop will be an informational seminar about how prospective and current students can become more involved in the STEM community at Foothill, especially since we are currently in a virtual setting. We will be discussing how to gain access to the abundant resources the STEM center provides, as well as how students can involve themselves in STEM clubs on campus.

Date: Friday 2/19/2021, 2:00 PM, PST, virtually.
RSVP: Google Form

Humanities Lecture Series

Teaching for Equity: Empowering Inmates through the Arts for Second Chance in Life

Koorosh Ostowari, a Somatic Trauma therapist, will be discussing his work with the incarcerated toward equity. He will share powerful stories with the Foothill community on Thursday, February 25 from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. 

From 2009 to 2019, he worked with thousands of incarcerated men and women as a spirituality and communications teacher at a local jail in Marin County. He offered a combination of tools for men and women during the weekly classes to support them to heal old wounds, traumas, dysfunctional patterns, and habits that often lead to incarceration. Mr. Ostowari has been officially acknowledged as a "Local leader for change" by the U.S Congress for his work at the Jail.

When: Thursday, February 25th, 5:30pm to 6:30pm (Pacific)
Meeting ID: 966 2926 3034 

 Foothill-De Anza Student Leadership Conference

The Foothill-De Anza Student Leadership Conference 2021 is the first-ever district-wide leadership conference being hosted by De Anza’s Office of College Life in partnership with De Anza’s Inter-Club Council (ICC), Mentors@De Anza Program, De Anza Associated Student Body (DASB), Honors Program, Phi Theta Kappa (PTK), Public Policy School (PPS), Associated Students of Foothill College (ASFC), Mellon Scholars Program, Vasconcellos Institute for Democracy in Action (VIDA), Student Service Center (SSC), and many others! It will be held on Friday, March 5th, 2021 from 3:30 - 6:30 PM.

The aim of the first FHDA SLC is to spotlight the incredible leaders, rebels, warriors, mentors, and advocates that come out of Foothill and De Anza College. This conference aims to connect the incoming leaders at FHDA with the knowledge gained by outgoing leaders and foster greater collaboration between the programs at FHDA helmed by students. This year's conference will be opened by De Anza President Dr. Lloyd Holmes and Foothill President Thúy Thị Nguyễn. We hope that you'll choose to be part of this journey! 

Register now for the Foothill-De Anza Student Leadership Conference at https://lu.ma/fhdaslc!
SLI STEM Internships: Computer Science at STEM-Away

Through the Science Learning Institute (SLI), four to five Foothill College students will have an opportunity to participate in a virtual computer science internship with STEM-Away in any of the following areas: machine learning, cloud computing, hardware engineering, full-stack, UX and UI, bioinformatics.

STEM-Away is a mission-driven for-profit company and online platform that provides virtual summer internships for college students and junior professionals. For more information about STEM-Away, please visit:

Internship term: July 6 - August 20, 2021, ~15 hours/ week commitment
Application deadline: Sunday, 2/28/21, 11:59 pm

Honors Student Counseling Report Form
All Honors Institute participants are required to meet with a counselor at least once every quarter to review or develop their educational plan, as well as to discuss any personal, career or academic concerns. Counseling appointments are scheduled for 30 minutes.

After your counseling appointment, please complete the new Counseling Report Form to record your visit and help evaluate your plan towards academic, personal, and professional successes. The Honors Institute will verify your appointment at the end of each quarter. This new reporting process replaces the documentation that counselors needed to complete.

Contact Your Honors Counselor Today!
If you have any questions regarding your schedule, the transfer application process, or any other questions about being an honors student, please be sure to visit any one of the General Counselors. For Honors specific questions, do contact any one of our Honors Counselors:

Research and Service Learning Symposium
We know that many Honors students look forward to participating in the Bay Area Honors Consortium Research Symposium. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic, this year's symposium has been canceled. However, we want to remind you that Foothill College has its very own research and service leadership symposium and we strongly encourage Honors students to apply and participate. Applications are due March 19, 2021, so now is a great time to start envisioning projects and research proposals.
What exactly is the Research and Service Leadership Symposium?

The Research and Service Leadership Symposium provides students an opportunity to expand their learning beyond the walls of the classroom (or the confines of the screen), to investigate their world through in-depth research projects, to create and participate in worthwhile service-learning activities, including original creative arts projects, and to present their newfound knowledge, insights, and experiences to the campus community.
Check out the links below for more details if you're interested:


Please contact Allison Herman at hermanallison@fhda.edu or Michael McCusker at mccuskermichael@fhda.edu, co-coordinators of the RSL Symposium.