San Jose State University
San José State University, also known as San José State and SJSU, is the first university in what became the California State University system.
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2 Organization 3 Students 4 Faculty 5 Sports, Clubs, and Traditions 6 History 7 Noted San José State alumni 8 Noted San José State faculty 9 External links |
Campus
The main 154 acre (62 hectare) campus of San José St. is a rectangle in downtown San José, bordered by San Fernando Street (north), Fourth Street (west), San Salvador Street (south), and Tenth Street (east). The athletic fields, additional student housing and parking are located about 1.5 miles south on Seventh Street at the South Campus.
San José State maintains a facility at Norman Y. Mineta San José International Airport as part of the Aviation Department, and participates in the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in Moss Landing, California, on the Monterey Bay, with six other CSU campuses.
The engineering, science and business schools claim to have more graduates in Silicon Valley than any other school in the U.S.
Research collections located at SJSU include the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies and the Martha H. Cox Center for Steinbeck Research.
SJSU research partnerships include the SJSU Metropolitan Technology Center at the NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, California and the Cisco Networking Laboratory, funded by Cisco Systems,
In 1921, the legislature changed the school's name to San José Teachers Training College. In 1935, the name was changed again, this time to San José State College. In 1961, SJSC joined the California State College System (later the California State University (CSU) system). In 1972 SJSC was granted university status, and the name was changed to CSU, San José. In 1974 the name was changed again, this time to San José State University.
In 1999, San José St. 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 such library in the world. The new Martin Luther King, Jr. Library opened in 2003.
Organization
The university has eight colleges:
as well as schools of Journalism, Library & Information Science and Music & Dance.Students
The campus has approximately 30,000 students. It is one of the most ethnically diverse in the state, with large Asian, Filipino and Latino enrollments.Faculty
San José State has about 1,600 faculty memebers, 87 percent of which hold doctorate degrees.Sports, Clubs, and Traditions
SJSU sports teams are known as the Spartans, and compete in the Western Athletic Conference in NCAA Division I (I-A for football). The school has achieved an international reputation in judo, having won 38 national championships in the sport, as of 2003.History
San José State was founded in 1857 as Minns' Evening Normal School, in San Francisco, California, and is the oldest public institution of higher learning on the West Coast of the United States. In 1862, the California legislature took possession of the school, renaming it the California State Normal School. The school moved to San José in 1871, becoming San José Normal School, and was given Washington Square Park at Fourth and San Carlos Streets to locate their campus, where it remains.Noted San José State alumni
Noted San José State faculty
External links
