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SJSU presidential candidate Elizabeth Grobsmith got a laugh out of the crowd in a full auditorium when she said she had never actually been to San Jose, but she had flown to the airport before.
Grobsmith spent about an hour in a public forum Tuesday at the Engineering Auditorium, answering questions from students, faculty and staff in regards to her plans if she becomes the university's next president. (0) comments
Jon Whitmore is searching for a new job. He's currently one of three candidates to replace Don Kassing as president of the university, but SJSU isn't his only option. (0) comments
Elizabeth Grobsmith took in the San Jose air for the first time Monday - her sunglasses guarded her from the California sunshine.
"I've never been here before, except once to fly into the airport," she said.
On campus Monday and Tuesday for a whirlwind of information and a slice of SJSU - from a meeting with Associated Students to Clark Hall to the King Library and around campus again - Grobsmith said she liked what she saw. (1) comment
Students outside of the Student Union were asked on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to make phone calls and fill out forms to fax to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, telling him to not cut the California State University's budget.
Called the SJSU Day of Action, the event was arranged by members of the Alliance for the CSU, a group that formed this semester, said Persis Karim. (0) comments
The NCAA officially denied an appeal by SJSU intended to retract a 2007 decision to lay historical penalties on the athletic program for failing to meet certain academic standards, according to a university athletics news release Tuesday.
Scholarship reductions for football, men's soccer, and women's basketball reported by the San Francisco Chronicle last May were upheld after the teams were unable to reach the minimum progress score, which is 925, according to the NCAA Division I 2005-2006 Academic Progress Rate Public Report. (0) comments
After five years on death row, Greg Wilhoit was exonerated.
"For some reason, if we cannot lethal inject you, we'll electrocute you. If the power goes out, we'll hang you, and if the rope breaks, my God, we'll take you out behind the jail and shoot you," a judge told him during his sentencing, he said. (1) comment
A former executive at Chevron and business dean at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey has been named the dean of the College of Business at SJSU.
David M. Steele said he was recruited by Chevron immediately after college. He attended University of Birmingham in England, where he received a bachelor's and doctoral degree in chemical engineering. (0) comments
It was a result of bound pages that he decided to pursue a career in law. Now, Jesus Valencia, an SJSU alumnus, is running for a vacant judge seat on the Santa Clara County Superior Court bench.
"At a young age, I read a book about Abraham Lincoln studying behind candlelight and it so happened that he was a lawyer and there were parallelisms," Valencia said. (0) comments
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