San José State University is a public university A public university is a university that is predominantly funded by public means through a national or subnational government, as opposed to private universities. A national university may or may not be considered a public university, depending on regions. In some regions of the world prominent public institutions are highly influential centers of located in San José, California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most, United States ^ b. English is the de facto language of American government and the sole language spoken at home by 80% of Americans age five and older. Spanish is the second most commonly spoken language. It is the founding campus of the California State University The California State University is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University. The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden (CSU) system. Located in downtown San José, the university enrolls approximately 30,000 students in over 130 different bachelor's and master's degree programs, and is believed to be the oldest public institution of higher education on the West Coast of the United States The West Coast or Pacific Coast are terms for the westernmost coastal states of the United States. The term most often refers to the states of California, Oregon and Washington.[citation needed] The United States Census Bureau groups the five states of California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii together as the Pacific region.
The school enjoys a good academic reputation, especially in the fields of engineering, library science, business, art and design, and journalism, and consistently ranks among the top public universities in the western region of the United States [1].
San José State University claims to provide Silicon Valley firms with more graduates than any other college or university,[2] and philanthropic support of SJSU is among the highest in the CSU system.
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History
An 1880s lithograph of the original California State Normal School campus in San José.What is now called San José State University was founded by the California legislature on May 2, 1862. It was originally called the California State Normal School, also known as the San Francisco Normal School. The San Francisco Normal School was a city-funded normal school A normal school was a school created to train high school graduates to be teachers. Its purpose was to establish teaching standards or norms, hence its name. Most such schools are now called teachers' colleges; however, in some places, the term normal school is still used located in San Francisco, California The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,977. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the. The school eventually moved to San José in 1871 and was given Washington Square Park at Fourth and San Carlos Streets, where the campus remains to this day.
In 1881, the first branch campus of the California State Normal School was announced, which later became the University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles is a public research university located in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. It was founded in 1919 and is the second oldest of the ten campuses affiliated with the University of California system. UCLA offers over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide (UCLA). To commemorate San José's identity as the original California State University, a large bell was forged with the words "California State Normal School, A.D. 1881." This bell is displayed on the SJSU campus to this day and is still associated with various student traditions and rituals. After creation of the Los Angeles campus, the San José campus officially became known as the California State Normal School, San José. Six years later in 1887, the school was renamed the "State Normal School."
In 1921, the school's name changed to the State Teachers College at San José. In 1935, the State Teachers Colleges became the California State Colleges, and the school's name was changed again, this time to San José State College. In 1972, SJSC was granted university status, and the name was changed to California State University, San José. In 1974, the California legislature voted to change the school's name to "San José State University".
Other Historical Notes
- The Justice Studies Department holds the distinction of being the first degree-granting program in criminal justice in the United States. The department was founded as the Police School in 1930. A stone monument with a plaque sits close to the site of the original Police School near Tower Hall.
- In 1942, the old gym (now named Yoshihiro Uchida Hall, after judo coach Yosh Uchida) was used to register and collect Japanese Americans before sending them to internment camps. Coincidentally, Uchida's parents and siblings were among those processed in the building.
- In 1963, in an effort to save Tower Hall from demolition, SJSU students and alumni organized testimonials before the State College Board of Trustees, sent telegrams, and provided signed petitions. As a result of those efforts, the Tower, a prime campus landmark and SJSU icon, was refurbished and reopened in 1966. The Tower was again renovated and restored in 2007. Tower Hall is registered with the California Office of Historic Preservation.
- San José State College witnessed a rise in political activism and civic awareness among its student body during the 1960s and early '70s, including major student protests against the Vietnam War The Vietnam War [A 2] was a Cold War military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1, 1955 [A 1], to April 30, 1975 when Saigon fell. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between the communist North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the. One of the largest campus protests took place in 1967 when Dow Chemical - a major manufacturer of napalm used in the war - came to campus to conduct job recruiting. More than 200 students and teachers lay down on the ground in front of the recruiters and about 3,000 more students and bystanders surrounded the Seventh Street Administration building.
- In 1972–1973, the economics department experienced political turmoil as the administration conducted a purge of left-leaning professors. For several years thereafter, the economics department was under censor by the American Association of University Professors.
- The English department has sponsored the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest since 1982.
- In 1999, San José State and the City of San José agreed to combine their main libraries to form a joint city/university library located on campus, the first known collaboration of this type in the United States. The combined library faced opposition, with critics stating the two libraries have very different objectives and that the project would be too expensive. Despite opposition, the project proceeded, and the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Library opened on-time and on-budget in 2003. The new library has won several national awards since its initial opening in 2003.
- SJSU received a record $50+ million in private gifts during the 2006-2007 fiscal year and $84 million in capital campaign contributions.
- In March 2007, a group of San José State students sponsored an official student initiative to restore the words "California State University" to the school's official public identity while preserving the "SJSU" city-state name. Although the measure was defeated, it garnered substantial Bay Area media coverage. Some 600 students voted for the measure, amounting to roughly 25% of the students casting ballots in the election.
- In 2008, SJSU received a CASEWealth Engine Award in recognition of raising over $100 million.
- In 2008, then university president Don Kassing made the controversial decision to ban blood drives on campus due to the FDA's long-standing policy barring gay men from donating blood, and its violation of the campus non discrimination policy. "I recognize the importance of giving blood and we know that universities are a significant source of blood," he wrote in an E-mail sent to faculty, staff, students, and alumni. "Our hope is that the FDA will revisit its deferral policy in a timely manner, and we may soon be able to hold blood drives on this campus again." This decision was born out of a grievance submitted to the office of Equal Opportunity by Residential Life Coordinator Seth Hodge after his concerns were dismissed by the leadership in University Housing and has since gained national attention through the media.
Campus
Tower Hall, the most recognizable building at SJSUThe SJSU main campus A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings. The definition currently describes a collection of buildings that belong to a given institution, either academic or non-academic comprises approximately 55 buildings situated on a rectangular area in downtown San José. The campus is bordered by San Fernando Street to the north, San Salvador Street to the south, South 4th Street to the west, and South 10th Street to the east. The South Campus, which is home to many of the school's athletics facilities, is located approximately 2.4 km (1.5 miles) south of the main campus on South 7th Street.
California State Normal School did not receive a permanent home until it moved from San Francisco to San José in 1871. The original California State Normal School campus in San José consisted of several rectangular, wooden buildings with a central grass quadrangle. The wooden buildings were destroyed by fire in 1880 and were replaced by interconnected stone and masonry structures of roughly the same configuration in 1881. These buildings were declared unsafe following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was a major earthquake that struck San Francisco, California, and the coast of Northern California at 5:12 a.m. on Wednesday, April 18, 1906. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the earthquake is a moment magnitude of 7.9; however, other values have been proposed, from 7.7 to as high as 8.25 and were being torn down when an aftershock An aftershock is a smaller earthquake that occurs after a previous large earthquake in the same area . If an aftershock is larger than the main shock, the aftershock is redesignated as the main shock and the original main shock is redesignated as a foreshock. Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes formed as the crust around the displaced fault plane of the magnitude that was predicted to destroy the buildings occurred and no damage was observed. Accordingly, demolition was stopped, and the portions of the buildings still standing were made into four halls: Tower Hall, Morris Dailey Auditorium, Washington Square Hall, and Dwight Bentel Hall. These four buildings are the oldest on campus.
In 2006, a $2 million renovation of Tower Hall was completed. Tower Hall is the oldest and most recognizable building on campus.
In 2002, three of SJSU's six red brick residence halls were demolished and replaced with the new Campus Village residence complex. The US$200 million housing facility comprises three buildings ranging from seven to 15 stories tall. The project doubled student capacity for on-campus housing, and provides housing options for first-year students, upper-class students, graduate students and faculty, staff and guests of the university. Campus Village officially opened in 2005.
SJSU Campus Village Southeast entrance of the King LibraryThe new US$177 million Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, which opened its doors on August 1, 2003, won the Library Journal's Library Journal is a trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey . It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice. It also reviews library-related materials and equipment prestigious 2004 Library of the Year award, the publication’s highest honor. The King Library is the first collaboration of its kind between a university and a major U.S. city. The library is eight stories high and has 475,000 square feet (44,100 m2) of floor space. San José's first public library occupied the same site from 1901 to 1936, and SJSU's Wahlquist Library occupied the site from 1961 to 2000, at which point it was torn down to begin construction of the King Library.
In the Fall of 2000, the SJSU Police Department, which is part of the larger California State University Police Department, opened a new on-campus, multi-level facility on 7th Street.
Completed in 1999, the Business Classroom Project was a US$16 million renovation of the James F. Boccardo Business Education Center. Renovations included installation of state-of-the-art telecommunications systems, as well as other major interior and exterior upgrades.
Completed in 1999, the US$1.5 million Heritage Gateway project was unveiled. The privately-funded project featured construction of eight oversized gateways around the main campus perimeter.
Beginning in the fall of 1994, the on-campus segments of San Carlos Street, Seventh Street and Ninth Street were closed to automobile traffic and converted to pedestrian walkways and green belts within the campus. San Carlos Street was renamed Paseo San Carlos, Seventh Street became El Paseo de César Chávez César Chávez Estrada was a Mexican American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Supporters say his work led to numerous improvements for union laborers. His birthday has become César Chávez Day, a state, and Ninth Street is now called the Ninth Street Plaza. The project was completed in 1996.
SJSU International HouseAdditional On-Campus Facilities
In 2007, the School of Library and Information Science opened a virtual campus in Second Life Second Life is a virtual world developed by Linden Lab that launched on June 23, 2003, and is accessible on the Internet. A free client program called the Viewer enables its users, called Residents, to interact with each other through avatars. Residents can explore, meet other residents, socialize, participate in individual and group activities,, complete with faculty offices, classrooms, student lounge and library e-resources. The project was supported by grants from a number of sources including the Soros Foundation.
SJSU is home to the 10,000 square-foot, three-story Nuclear Science Facility. It is the only nuclear science facility of its kind in the California State University system, and one of only a handful of undergraduate nuclear science laboratories in the world.
Located on the main campus, the SJSU Aquatic Center features an outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool An Olympic-size swimming pool is the type of swimming pool used in the Olympic Games and other "long course" events . The size is commonly used as a casual measure of volume. The pool is open year-round and is the largest in Northern California.
Located on the main campus, The Event Center Arena seats approximately 5,000 people for athletic events and over 6,000 for concerts, and features a full gym including basketball and racquetball courts, a weight room and a climbing wall.
The SJSU Student Union is a four-story, stand alone facility that features a food court, the Spartan Bookstore, a multi-level study area, ballrooms, a bowling alley, music room, and a large game room.
South Campus
Many of SJSU's athletics facilities, including Spartan Stadium and Blethen Field (baseball), along with the athletics department administrative offices and multiple training and practice facilities, are located on the 62-acre South Campus approximately 2.4 km (1.5 miles) south of the main campus near 7th Street. The south campus also is home to student overflow parking. A shuttle bus runs between the main campus and south campus every 10–15 minutes Monday - Friday.
Off-Campus Facilities
- SJSU Simpkins International House (360 South 11th Street, San José) provides housing for domestic as well as international students of the university. International House (also known as I-House) accommodates residents from approximately 35 countries worldwide each semester.
- SJSU maintains a five-acre academic facility at Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport (1120 Coleman Avenue) as part of the Aviation and Technology Department.
- SJSU manages the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California Moss Landing is a census-designated place (CDP) in Monterey County, California, United States. Moss Landing is located on the Pajaro Valley Consolidated Railroad 15 miles (24 km) north-northeast of Monterey, at an elevation of 10 feet (3 m). As of the 2005 census, the CDP population was 782. It is located on the shore of Monterey Bay, at the mouth, on the Monterey Bay Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean, along the central coast of California. The bay is south of San Francisco, between the cities of Santa Cruz and Monterey. MLML is a cooperative research facility of seven CSU campuses.
- Art and Metal Foundry (1036 South 5th Street, San José)
- Associated Students Child Development Center (460 South 8th Street, San José)
- SJSU International and Extended Studies facility is located in the off-campus Classroom Building (384 South 2nd Street, San José). The off-campus Classroom Building also houses the SJSU Professional Development Center.
- University Club (408 South 8th Street, San José), is a 16-room, multi-level dining, special events, and bed-and-breakfast style residence facility for faculty, staff, visiting scholars and graduate students of the university. This building is currently occupied by Alpha Omicron Pi Alpha Omicron Pi is an international women's fraternity promoting friendship for a lifetime, inspiring academic excellence and lifelong learning, and developing leadership skills through service to the Fraternity and community. AOΠ was founded on January 2, 1897 at Barnard College on the campus of Columbia University in New York. Its founders sorority in agreement with the university.
- Known simply as North Fourth Street (210 North 4th Street, San José), this four-story facility houses the Global Studies Institute, Governmental & External Affairs, International and Extended Studies, the Mineta Transportation Institute, the Processed Foods Institute, and the SJSU Research Foundation.
Organization
As a member institution of the California State University System, San José State falls under the jurisdiction of the California State University Board of Trustees The California State University is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University. The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden and the Chancellor of the California State University The California State University is one of three public higher education systems in the state of California, the other two being the University of California system and the California Community College system. It is incorporated as The Trustees of the California State University. The California State University system headquarters are at 401 Golden.
The College of Engineering BuildingThe chief executive of San José State is the President of San José State University. The current president is Jon Whitmore, who was appointed to the position on May 14, 2008.[3]
San José State offers 69 bachelors degrees with 81 concentrations, and 65 masters degrees with 29 concentrations.
The university has seven colleges and six schools:
- College of Applied Sciences & Arts
- College of Business
- College of Education
- The Charles W. Davidson College of Engineering
- College of Humanities & the Arts
- College of Science
- College of Social Sciences
- School of Art & Design
- School of Journalism & Mass Communications
- School of Library & Information Science
- School of Music & Dance
- School of Nursing
- School of Social Work
SJSU also is home to a burgeoning eCampus community called International and Extended Studies (IES), which coordinates continuing education and professional development programs.
Academics
View of San Carlos walkway from the Event Center with Campus Village visible in backgroundAccording to U.S. News and World Report U.S. News & World Report is an American newsmagazine published in Washington, D.C. Along with Time and Newsweek, it has been for many years a leading news weekly, although it focused more than its counterparts on political, economic, health and education stories. It is particularly well known for its ranking system and annual reports on, SJSU is ranked 38th among all master's-level colleges and universities in the Western region of the United States (2010). The Western region comprises 15 states and approximately 125 colleges and universities. U.S. News ranked SJSU 12th in the Western region out of approximately 60 public master's colleges and universities, and gave the university a top-tier academic ranking overall. [2]. The 2010 rankings represent a slight improvement from 2009, in which SJSU ranked 45th among all master's-level universities and colleges in the Western region and 13th among public master's-level institutions.
On a national level, the university tied for 19th place for the best overall undergraduate engineering school, tied for 5th for the best computer engineering program, and placed 3rd for the best industrial/manufacturing engineering program out of over 550 master's-level colleges and universities nationwide, according to U.S. News and World Report (2010). SJSU's graduate school of Library and Information Science is ranked 22nd in the nation among all colleges and universities and was named the number one e-learning service provider in its discipline by U.S. News and World Report (2009).
SJSU also made the Forbes Forbes, Inc. is a privately held publishing and media company. Its flagship publication is Forbes, a bi-weekly magazine, with a circulation over 900,000. In August 2006, the private equity firm, Elevation Partners, became a minority shareholder in a newly formed company, Forbes Media, which encompasses Forbes magazine and Forbes.com, one of the list of "America's Best Colleges" in 2008 and 2009, and was ranked among the top 360 universities in the world out of over 14,000 institutions according to the July 2009 Webometrics Ranking of World Universities The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, also known as Ranking Web of World Universities is the largest classification of higher educations institutions, covering more than 17.000 universities worldwide. The aim of the Ranking is to improve the presence of the academic and research institutions on the Web and to promote the open access.
SJSU Associated Students (AS) houseThe SJSU College of Business is one of only 500 institutions worldwide that is accredited by the AACSB The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide. The first accreditations took place in 1919. The stated mission is to advance quality management education worldwide through accreditation and thought leadership International at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, and The Princeton Review The Princeton Review is an American-based standardized test preparation and admissions consulting company. The Princeton Review operates in 41 states and 22 countries across the globe. It offers test preparation for standardized aptitude tests such as the SAT and advice regarding college admissions. Approximately 70% of the company's revenue comes listed its graduate school among the top 296 in the nation. Additionally, the College of Business is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and the California State Board of Education. The college recently received a donation of US$10 million from alumni Donald and Sally Lucas. Donald and Sally Lucas are the founders of the Lucas Dealership Group, one of the top 25 automobile dealerships in the country. The Lucas donation was listed among the largest philanthropic gifts in the state of California in 2006 by the Chronicle of Philanthropy The Chronicle of Philanthropy is a biweekly newspaper that covers the nonprofit world. Based in Washington, DC, it is the top news source for charity leaders, foundation executives, fund raisers, and other people involved in philanthropy. It is owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., which also publishes The Chronicle of Higher Education,.
SJSU's engineering, science, and business schools claim to have more graduates working in Silicon Valley than any other university in the world. Nearly 200 SJSU graduates have founded, co-founded, served or serve as senior executives or officers of public and private companies reporting annual sales between US$40 million and US$26 billion. Notable companies founded by SJSU students and alumni include Oracle Corporation Oracle Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing enterprise software products — particularly database management systems. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, United States, Oracle employs more than 115,000 people worldwide as of 2009[update]. It has enlarged its share of, Intel Corporation Intel Corporation is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. The company is the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. Intel was founded on July 18, 1968, as Integrated Electronics Corporation (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word, Dolby Laboratories Dolby Laboratories, Inc. , often shortened to Dolby Labs, is a British-founded USA-based company specializing in audio noise reduction and audio encoding/compression and Specialized Bicycle Components Specialized Bicycle Components, more commonly known simply as Specialized, is a major American manufacturer of bicycles based in Morgan Hill, California. It was founded in 1974 by Mike Sinyard.
Along with its colleges of business and engineering and its nationally-ranked library science program, SJSU also is widely recognized for its School of Art and Design and its School of Journalism and Mass Communications, as well as its Department of Meteorology.
The university recently formed a cross-enrollment agreement with National Hispanic University. Students at one institution are able to enroll in up to 6 credits per semester at the other institution. Additionally, students can transfer between institutions with up to 60 credits.
Athletics
Main article: San José State Spartans The State Normal School at San José football team in 1910. Jerseys display a large "N" for the "Normal".San José State University has participated in athletics since it first fielded a baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The goal is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot square, or diamond. Players on one team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the other team (the fielding team), which tries team in 1890. SJSU sports teams are known as the Spartans, and compete in the Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference was formed on July 27, 1962, making it the sixth oldest of the 11 college athletic conferences currently participating in the NCAA's Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Division I-A). The WAC covers a broad expanse of the Western United States, with member institutions located in California, Hawaii, (WAC) in NCAA The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a semi- voluntary association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Its headquarters are located in Indianapolis, Indiana Division I.
SJSU Aquatic CenterSan José State University sports teams have won NCAA titles in track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area. The throwing and jumping events generally take place within the, golf Golf is a precision club-and-ball sport, in which competing players , using many types of clubs, attempt to hit balls into each hole on a golf course while employing the fewest number of strokes. Golf is one of the few ball games that does not require a standardized playing area. Instead, the game is played on golf "courses", each of, and boxing Boxing is a combat sport and martial art in which two people fight using their fists. Boxing is typically supervised by a referee engaged in during a series of one- to three-minute intervals called rounds, and boxers generally of similar weight. There are three ways to win; if the opponent is knocked out and unable to get up before the referee. As of 2008, SJSU had won more NCAA team championships (10) and produced more NCAA Division 1 individual champions (50) than any other school in the WAC. SJSU also has achieved an international reputation for its judo program, winning 42 out of 46 national championships in the sport (as of 2007).[4]
SJSU alumni have won 18 Olympic medals (including seven gold medals) dating back to the first gold medal won by Willie Steel in track and field in the 1948 Olympics. Alumni also have won medals in swimming The aquatic sport of swimming is based on the human act of swimming, that is, locomotion in water by self propulsion, usually with the goal to complete a given distance in the smallest amount of time. There are also swimming competitions based on endurance or precedence rather than speed, such as crossing the English Channel or some other stretch, judo and boxing.
The legendary track team coached by "Bud" Winter earned San José the nickname "Speed City," and produced Olympic medalists and social activists Lee Evans, John Carlos John Wesley Carlos is an African American former track and field athlete and professional football player. He was the bronze-medal winner in the 200 meters at the 1968 Summer Olympics and his black power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith caused much political controversy. He went on to equal the world record in the 100 yard dash and beat the 2 and Tommie Smith Tommie Smith is an African American former track & field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith won the 200-meter dash finals in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20 second barrier was broken. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy at the time. Smith and Carlos are perhaps best remembered for giving the raised fist The raised fist is a salute and logo most often used by leftist activists, such as: Marxists, anarchists, socialists, communists, pacifists, trade unionists, and black nationalists. The raised fist is usually regarded as an expression of solidarity, strength or defiance salute from the medalist's podium during the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City Mexico City is the capital and largest city in the country of Mexico. Mexico City is also the Federal District (Distrito Federal), seat of the federal government. The Federal District is considered a federal entity within Mexico and is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole. It is the most important.
As of 2008, current head coaches from the men’s soccer, baseball, women’s gymnastics, and women’s golf programs had all been named the conference “Coach of the Year.”
Faculty and research
SJSU Campus GatewaySan José State has about 1,600 faculty members, 87 percent of whom hold doctorate degrees.
According to the National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health. With an annual budget of about US$6.87 billion (fiscal year 2010), the NSF funds approximately 20 percent of, San José State's research expenditures totaled just over US$34 million in 2007, placing it second only to San Diego State University San Diego State University , founded in 1897 as San Diego Normal School, is the largest and oldest higher education facility in the greater San Diego area (generally the City and County of San Diego), and is part of the California State University system. It is the third-oldest university in the California State University system, and one of the in total R&D The phrase research and development , according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, refers to "creative work undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications" expenditures out of all 23 California State University (CSU) campuses. Additionally, SJSU placed 196th out of 662 colleges and universities nationwide for total research expenditures according to NSF statistical data for 2007. [3]
Research collections located at SJSU include the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and the Martha Heasley Cox Center for Steinbeck Studies.
SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at NASA Ames Research Center NASA's Ames Research Center , located at Moffett Field, California, was founded on December 20, 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) laboratory, and became part of NASA in 1958, as part of the turnover from NACA. The center was named after Joseph Sweetman Ames, a founding member and longtime chairman (1919–1939), Moffett Field, the Cisco Networking Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking and communications technology and services. Headquartered in California, Cisco has more than 65,000 employees and annual revenue of US$36.11 billion as of 2009. The stock was added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average on June 8, 2009, Laboratory, and the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.
SJSU also is home to the Mineta Transportation Institute.
Since 2001, the university has operated the Survey and Policy Research Institute (SPRI), which conducts the quarterly, high-profile California Consumer Confidence Survey and many other research projects.
In spring 2007, an SJSU engineering professor and his students made headlines with their development of the ZEM (Zero EMissions) Car, a Human Hybrid Powered Vehicle (HHPV). The vehicle won the National I2P (Idea-to-Product) Competition for EPICS and Social Entrepreneurship at Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution. The ZEM car is the first of its kind to be powered by human, solar, and electric energy.
Students
Approximately 30,000 students are enrolled at SJSU. It is one of the most ethnically diverse student populations in the nation, with large Asian (including Japanese, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Filipino, Thai, and Hmong) and Latino enrollments. Although the university is widely viewed as a commuter school, campus residence facilities house over 3,000 students, and community impact studies have repeatedly shown an estimated 10,000 more students live within easy walking or biking distance of the campus.
Greek Organizations
The school is home to 39 fraternity and sorority chapters. Most of them maintain chapter homes in the residential community east of campus along South 10th and 11th streets in downtown San José. SJSU Greek chapters include:
Fraternities
IFC (Inter-Fraternity Council)
- Alpha Tau Omega (Colony)
- Beta Theta Pi
- Delta Sigma Phi
- Delta Upsilon
- Kappa Sigma
- Pi Kappa Alpha
- Sigma Alpha Epsilon
- Sigma Nu
- Sigma Pi
- Sigma Chi
- Theta Chi
USFC (United Sorority and Fraternity Council)
- Alpha Kappa Omega
- Gamma Zeta Alpha
- Nu Alpha Kappa
- Sigma Delta Alpha
- Sigma Lambda Beta
- Zeta Chi Epsilon
NPHC (National Pan-Hellenic Council)
Sororities
Pan-Hellenic Council
- Alpha Omicron Pi
- Alpha Phi
- Alpha Xi Delta (Colony)
- Delta Gamma
- Delta Zeta
- Kappa Delta
United Sorority and Fraternity Council
- Alpha Kappa Delta Phi
- Lambda Sigma Gamma
- Sigma Alpha Zeta
- Sigma Omicron Pi
- Sigma Theta Psi Inc.
NPHC (National Pan-Hellenic Council)
Co-ed fraternities
Spartan Squad
Spartan Squad cheering on the football teamFounded in 2005, the Spartan Squad is the official student booster club at San José State. The Spartan Squad is open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at San José State, and its stated mission is to increase student attendance at sporting events and cultivate school pride throughout the campus community. The Spartan Squad members are easily recognized wearing the group's signature gold t-shirts designed by San José State graphic design student Dang Nguyen. Class of 2006 graduates Matthew Olivieri and Brad Villeggiante are credited with founding the group.
Notable songs commonly played and sung by Spartan Squad members at various events such as commencement, convocation and especially sporting events are the Spartan Alma Mater and the San José State Spartan fight song.
Student press
The school newspaper, The Spartan Daily, was founded in 1934 and is published four days a week when classes are in session. The publication follows a broadsheet format and boasts a daily print circulation of over 6,000, as well as a daily on-line edition. The newspaper is produced by journalism and advertising students enrolled in SJSU's School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
Update News is a weekly, student-produced television newscast that airs every weekend on PBS affiliate KTEH in San José. The newscast is produced by San José State broadcast journalism students, and has aired in the Bay Area in one form or another since the 1960s. Update News also features a daily live webcast.
KSJS, 90.5 FM, is the university's radio station, and features five different types of music (electronic, urban, jazz, subversive rock, and rock en espanol), as well as a variety of news and information programming.
Noted people
Main article: List of San Jose State University peopleNotes
- ^ "2008 NACUBO Endowment Study" (PDF). National Association of College and University Business Officers. http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research/NES2008PublicTable-AllInstitutionsByFY08MarketValue.pdf. Retrieved January 27, 2009.
- ^ "Points of Pride". San José State University. 2006. http://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/facts_and_figures/pride/. Retrieved 2008-09-10.
- ^ SJSU News
- ^ Ryan Sholin; "The judo that you don't know"; The Spartan Daily, San José State University; April 11, 2006;
External links
- Official website
- SJSU's student newspaper, The Spartan Daily
- USNews Report: SJSU School Brief
- Gilroy Dispatch, January 20, 2007: "A Look Back at the History of San Jose State University"
- CineSource Magazine - Local Film Schools: A Plethora of Riches
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