San Jose State University

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Motto	Powering Silicon Valley
Formation	1957
Headquarters	San Jose,California,USA
Type	Public
Other name	Spartans
	One of the leading suppliers of alumni to Silicon Valley technology firms.

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San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) system.^[1]^[2]

Located in downtown San Jose, the SJSU main campus is situated on 154 acres (62 ha), or roughly 19 square blocks. SJSU offers 145 bachelor's and master's degrees with 108 concentrations and five credential programs with 19 concentrations.^[3]^[4] The university also offers three doctoral degrees as of fall 2020.^[5] SJSU is accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC).^[6]

SJSU's total enrollment was 33,025 in fall 2020, including approximately 5,400 graduate and credential students. SJSU's student population is one of the most ethnically diverse in the nation. As of fall 2019, graduate student enrollment, Asian, and international student enrollments at SJSU were the highest of any campus in the CSU system.^[7]

SJSU is consistently listed as one of the leading suppliers of undergraduate and graduate alumni to Silicon Valley technology firms,^[8]^[9]^[10] and philanthropic support of SJSU is among the highest in the CSU system.^[11]

Notable alumni

About 60 percent of San Jose State's 226,000 alumni of record live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The other 40 percent are scattered around the globe, with concentrations in Southern California, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C. and New York City.^[12]

Academia

Bettina Aptheker — author, professor, political activist
Marshall Drummond — former chancellor, California Community College System
Harry Edwards — Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley; author of The Revolt of the Black Athlete
Mary Lyons — President, University of San Diego
Henry Suzzallo — former president, University of Washington
Jennifer Wilby — Director of the Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull
Hamza Yusuf — Islamic scholar

Authors

Lorna Dee Cervantes — poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee
William J. Craddock — novelist, author of Be Not Content and Twilight Candelabra
Carmen Giménez Smith — poet, American Book Award winner
James D. Houston — co-author of Farewell to Manzanar; author of Continental Drift, Snow Mountain Passage, and others; Lurie Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at SJSU in Spring 2006
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston — co-author of Farewell to Manzanar
Jayne Ann Krentz — New York Times bestselling author
Ella Leffland — novelist (Rumors of Peace) and short story writer (Last Courtesies and Other Stories)
Edwin Markham — poet
Patricia A. McKillip — novelist
Sandra McPherson — poet
Robert Scoble — blogger, author, and social media pioneer
Amy Tan — novelist; author of The Joy Luck Club

Aviation

Jason Dahl — airline pilot and United Airlines Flight 93 captain who died in the September 11 attacks^[13]

Business

Terry Alderete — businesswoman
Helder Antunes — Senior Director, Cisco Systems; Chairman of the Board, OpenFog Consortium
James F. Boccardo — trial lawyer, businessman, and philanthropist
Finis Conner — founder, Conner Peripherals and co-founder of Seagate Technology
Ron Conway — angel investor, co-founder and former CEO of Altos Computer Systems
Robert Frankenberg — former CEO, Novell
Carl Guardino — President and CEO, Silicon Valley Leadership Group
Omid Kordestani — Senior Vice President, Google
Brian Krzanich — CEO, CDK Global and former CEO, Intel Corporation
Jenny Ming — CEO, Charlotte Russe; former CEO of Old Navy
Gordon Moore — co-founder, Intel Corporation (studied two years at SJSU; graduated from U.C. Berkeley)
Louis Nguyen — Chairman and CEO, Saigon Asset Management
Ed Oates — co-founder, Oracle Corporation
Daniel R. Scoggin — founder and CEO, TGI Fridays
Mike Sinyard — founder and CEO, Specialized Bicycle Components
James E. Thompson — founder and chairman, Crown Worldwide Group

Journalism

Chauncey Bailey — Oakland Post editor-in-chief; murdered in 2007^[14]
Grant Brisbee — San Francisco Giants writer for The Athletic^[15]
Kim Komenich — photojournalist, filmmaker and teacher; Pulitzer Prize winner (1987)
John Kouns — photojournalist during the Civil Rights Movement
Tony Kovaleski — broadcast journalist (KNTV-TV); multiple Emmy awards; winner of the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award (2010)
Steve Lopez — newspaper columnist,
Anacleto Rapping — photojournalist and teacher; three-time Pulitzer Prize winner
Steve Starr — photojournalist; Pulitzer Prize winner (1970)
Julie Tilsner, journalist for Businessweek
David Willman — reporter; Pulitzer Prize winner (2001)

Miscellaneous

Christopher Darden — prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder case^[16]
Dirk Dirksen — godfather of San Francisco punk; tour manager for The Doors, Iron Butterfly, The Supremes and Ray Charles; owner of the Mabuhay Gardens punk club in San Francisco (attended SJSU, but did not graduate)
Rob Janoff — creator of the Apple logo
Harry W. Jenkins — Major General, U.S. Marine Corps^[17]
Jessica McClintock — fashion designer<
Anthony Poshepny, aka Tony Poe — legendary CIA paramilitary officer^[18]
Edward Soriano — Lieutenant General, United States Army;^[19]^[20]

Politics and government

Richard C. Baldwin — Associate Justice of the Oregon Supreme Court
James T. Beall Jr. — California Assemblyman, 24th district, and former Santa Clara County Supervisor<
Lee P. Brown — former Mayor of Houston; former Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy
Ben Nighthorse Campbell — former U.S. Senator from Colorado
Albert E. Carter — former U.S. Congressman<
David C. Casas — former mayor of Los Altos and Los Altos city council member
Cindy Chavez — former member of San Jose City Council and former vice mayor of San Jose
Judy Chirco — San José City councilmember, District 9
Carole Ward Allen — former BART board director, District 4; former Oakland port commissioner
William Clark, Jr. — former U.S. Ambassador to India^[21]
Michael Deaver — Deputy White House Chief of Staff for President Ronald Reagan
Robert Doerr — former Mayor of San Jose, California (1956–1958)
Paul Fong — California Assemblyman, 22nd district
Robert "Bob" Foster — Mayor of Long Beach, California; former President, Southern California Edison; former CSU Trustee
Mike Honda — U.S. Representative from California
Lou Henry Hoover — former First Lady of the United States
Johnny Khamis — Councilmember on the San Jose City Council
Linda J. LeZotte — San Jose City councilmember, District 1
Gus Morrison — Mayor of Fremont, California (1985–1989; 1994–2004; since January 2012)
Gaylord Nelson — former U.S. Senator; Governor of Wisconsin; founder of Earth Day
Lyn Nofziger — White House advisor to presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan
Ed Rollins — National Campaign Director for Reagan–Bush (1984) and Mike Huckabee (2007); regular guest political analyst on CNN (attended SJSU; graduated from CSU Chico)
Jim Silva — California State Assemblyman; former mayor of Huntington Beach
Laurie Smith — Sheriff, Santa Clara County; first female county sheriff in the history of the state of California
Fernando Torres-Gil — first assistant secretary for aging at the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton Administration; associate dean of the School of Public Affairs at UCLA
Joe Trippi — presidential campaign manager for Howard Dean (2004)
Sim Tze Tzin — Malaysian politician
Kent Wiedemann — former U.S. Ambassador to Cambodia
Ken Yeager — politician, member of Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors

Science and technology

Barbara Bekins – hydrologist and Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering
Daniel W. Bradley — co-discoverer of Hepatitis C^[22]
Ray Dolby — engineer, founder of Dolby Laboratories (studied two years at SJSU; graduated from Stanford University)
Dian Fossey — ethologist and gorilla expert
Charles Ginsburg — engineer, inventor of the videocassette recorder; National Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
Jan Koum — Ukrainian entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp; managing director at Facebook, Inc. (attended SJSU, but did not graduate)^[23]
Gordon Moore — scientist, author of Moore's Law
Roger Wakimoto — atmospheric scientist, tornado expert, director of NCAR and NSF

References

[1] ttp://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/history/timeline/1857/

[2] ttp://libguides.sjsu.edu/content.php?pid=55118&sid=417049

[3] ttp://www.sjsu.edu/about_sjsu/facts_and_figures/ Facts & Figures | About SJSU | San Jose State University

[4] ttp://www.sjsu.edu/education/credential/

[5] ttp://www.sjsu.edu/gape/graduate_programs/

[6] ttp://www.sjsu.edu/wasc/

[7] ttps://www.calstate.edu/as/stat_reports/2018-2019/feth02.htm

[8] ttps://qz.com/967985/silicon-valley-companies-like-apple-aapl-hires-the-most-alumni-of-these-10-universities-and-none-of-them-are-in-the-ivy-league/

[9] ttp://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Study-San-Jose-State-University-is-Top-School-for-Most-Silicon-Valley-Hires--316064091.html

[10] ttp://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/08/25/san-jose-state-university-sjsu-silicon-valley-tech-jobs-apple-cisco-hewlett-packard/

[11] ttp://www.calstate.edu/philanthropic/documents/201314-PhilanthropicReport.pdf%7Ctitle=2013/2014 Philanthropic Support Annual Report

[12] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20130405051404/http://www.sjsu.edu/getinvolved/orientation/Fall%202013%20Admissions.pdf

[13] ttp://www.post-gazette.com/headlines/20011028flt93dahlbiop8.asp

[14] ttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/03/OAKSLAY.TMP%7Cdisplay-authors=etal

[15] ttps://www.sbnation.com/authors/grant-brisbee

[16] ttp://www.sanjose.com/people/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100214151214/http://www.sanjose.com/people/

[17] ttp://www.mcafdn.org/majgen-harry-w-jenkins-usmc-ret

[18] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20100920064226/http://air-america.org/In_Remembrance/poe.shtml

[19] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20131017064904/http://www.riley.army.mil/bigredone/commandteam/Former/ADC/Soriano%2C%20Edward.htm

[20] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20091128111402/http://www.asianjournal.com/voice-of-fil-america/72-voice-of-fil-america/1748-lieutenant-general-edward-soriano-highest-ranking-filipino-american-in-the-us-army.html

[21] ttp://www.nndb.com/people/651/000119294/

[22] ttp://gairdner.org/winners/index-of-winners/

[23] ttp://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57619158-93/who-is-whatsapp-co-founder-and-ceo-jan-koum/}

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