New York Times: Colleges Adapt Online Courses to Ease Burden
This front-page story profiles SJSU’s online initiatives.
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President Hosts Budget Forum
President Qayoumi discussed Proposition 30 and the planned merger of four of SJSU’s five auxiliaries.
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Chronicle of Higher Education: The Digital Campus 2013–Learning From Big Business
The Chronicle of Higher Education features President Qayoumi in “The Idea Makers: Ten Tech Innovators 2013.”
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SJSU Expands edX Collaboration
Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom attended a news conference on April 10 at King Library announcing a major expansion to the SJSU-edX collaboration.
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SJSU/EdX Adds More Campuses, Courses
Thousands more CSU students will benefit from SJSU collaboration with edX, founded by Harvard and MIT.
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Homeland Security Appointment for President Qayoumi
President Qayoumi will serve on the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council and chair the group’s new subcommittee on cybersecurity.
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SJSU Hosts Cyber Quests Day Camp
Students will practice the database security, network security and network discovery methods they need to compete for more training and jobs.
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SJ Mercury News: Time for State to Transform College System
The San Jose Mercury News publishes an editorial describing the SJSU-Udacity partnership as “a big step toward a new future for higher education that Brown introduced in last week’s budget proposal.”
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ABC7: SJSU Launches Online Courses for Credit
At the SJSU-Udacity news conference, reporter Karina Rusk quotes President Qayoumi saying “After all, we are here in San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, the cradle of creatively and the epicenter of innovation.”
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Governor Helps Launch SJSU Plus
Top elected and higher education officials joined Silicon Valley’s leading entrepreneurs at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on Jan. 15 for the advent of a groundbreaking partnership aimed at bridging public higher education with a promising Silicon Valley startup.
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