November 12, 2025
Native American Heritage Month
November is filled with several events to celebrate and gather together with our Native American and Indigenous community. Honor their heritage and history with us at SJSU!
The dynamism of the nation's budget negotiations and uncertainty at the federal level around SNAP benefits spurs more food insecurity for students in need. Your generosity keeps Spartans fed!
Action Items
Commencement Volunteers Needed
With over 5,000 graduates and 30,000 visiting families and loved ones, faculty and staff are needed as Commencement Ambassadors. Food will be provided.
Nov. 12, 3:15 p.m.
Join a hybrid open forum featuring the candidate for the Senior Vice Provost and Accreditation Liaison Officer at 3:15 p.m. in MLK225 or on Zoom.
Call for Honorary Degree Recommendations
Nov. 16, 11:59 p.m.
The CSU Board of Trustees opened its annual call for honorary degrees, which are due at SJSU by November 16. Each CSU can nominate two individuals.
Email Annual Giving Department
ASAP
Beginning October 30, SJSU will transition to a new giving platform. Existing links will redirect to a general giving form. Request updated pre-filled links by emailing annualgiving@sjsu.edu.
News and Announcements
CEFCU Financial Education Workshops
Nov. 19 at 10 a.m. and Nov. 20 at 11 a.m.
Join two financial workshops from CEFCU: mortgages (Wed., Nov. 19 at 10 a.m.) and investing (Thu., Nov. 20 at 11 a.m.) both in-person at ADM 140. Refreshments will be served.
Dec. 1
Beginning December 1, we'll be supporting you in our expanded space: Clark Hall, Ground Floor. Visit us online 24/7 for career resources: careercenter.sjsu.edu
Transportation Scholarships Support – open to faculty to help support students
Nov. 13
Faculty and students are invited to attend a scholarships applications workshop by the Transportation Students Association.
Research and Innovation Exchange Series. Lunch provided!
Nov. 14, 11 a.m.
Hear from SJSU faculty and students at the Research and Innovation Exchange Series: Applied AI and Emerging Technologies this Friday in MLK 225. Program: 11 a.m. Lunch provided at 12 p.m.
Nov. 14-15, Nov. 19-23
Join a series of workshops and events designed to show students and faculty ethical, practical, and innovative ways to use AI. This Thursday session focuses on prompt engineering.
Nov. 14 and 18
Join a series of workshops and events designed to show students and faculty ethical, practical, and innovative ways to use AI. This Thursday session focuses on prompt engineering.
Nov. 19
Dr. Jalal Sarabadani presents "Understanding and Managing the Dark Side of IT" at the next installment of this all-virtual lecture series open to all employees and the public.
CEFCU Investment Education Workshop, lunch provided!
Nov. 20
All faculty and staff are invited to attend this free workshop on Thu., Nov. 20 at 11:45 a.m. in the ODEP Training Room in ADM 107. Panda Express lunch will be provided.
International Faculty and Staff Association interest form
Nov. 2025
Do you identify as an international faculty or staff? Are you interested in being a part of an International Faculty & Staff Association at SJSU? Take a minute to tell us.
Starting Jan. 2026
Please join the Office of Research and a selected panel of distinguished faculty and students as they discuss their work in their respective research areas.
Faculty and Staff Spotlight
Faculty Spotlight: Aaron Romanowsky
One of our physics and astronomy professors is the lead author of a report announcing a breakthrough discovery from a Chile observatory.
Staff at the Veterans Resource Center support and guide our armed service members pursuing their studies at SJSU.
SJSU NewsCenter Featured Stories
SJSU Students Revive “Penguin Flight School”
Engineering students Derek Do, Cesar Jair Romero Callejas, Daniel Jimenez Hernandez, Mark Bennett and Zachary McGee bring back a beloved animatronic display at Christmas in the Park.
Cementing Filipino American Legacy at San José State
Placemaking at San José State is critical to cultivating a sense of belonging for all Spartans. The Filipino American History Mural project is just one example of how Filipinos and Filipino Americans have contributed to the labor movement in the U.S. and beyond.
Starting April 2026, all digital campus materials must be accessible, per CSU requirement and federal standards. CFETI has this PDF Accessibility page to help you. (https://www.sjsu.edu/cfeti/software/accessibility/accessible-pdf.php) Disclaimer: posting PDFs of any kind to any sjsu.edu webpage should be done sparingly and only when absolutely necessary. Instead, opt for providing a public link to a shareable cloud storage file like a Google Drive folder instead of uploading large and unwieldy files as PDFs. Review the entire Digital Content Remediation hub today.
