Category — Department news

From the Spartan Daily:

A living trust of $1 million was made to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Resource Center from two SJSU alumni, the first major gift to SJSU’s Division of Student Affairs under which the LGBT resource center operates.

“It’s a great investment to the future of the LGBT center, friends and allies of the university,” said Bonnie Sugiyama, the assistant director of the university’s LGBT Resource Center. “It is money we will use in the future.”

The gift from philanthropists Larry Arzie and David Stonesifer, both Los Gatos residents and businessmen, is a living trust, which means their estate will transfer $1 million to the center after they pass, Sugiyama said.
The center is currently located in Building BB in room 101, next to the Aquatic Center. [Read more →]

Please pass along the following info to any graduating students that might be interested. Thanks for your help!

SJSU Pilipino Commencement 2009
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When: Thursday May 28, 2009
Where: Jacinto “Tony” Siquig Northside Community Center, 488 N.6th St. San Jose, Ca 95112

Registration Fee: $55 [Read more →]

The SJSU Master’s Program in Mexican American Studies is accepting applications for Fall 2009 admission.  Department chair Marc Pizarro said, “We are committed to training the next generation of Chicana/o Studies scholars and activists to take on the vast array of issues facing academia and our communities today.”

Prof. Pizarro also mentioned exciting work being done throughout the department:

• “Many of our students are doing very exciting work in applied Chicana/o Studies,  including:
  • Developing strategies for helping deaf education programs to better understand and address the needs of deaf students who come from non-English speaking families,
  • Creating programs for Latina teens to help them understand the factors leading to teen pregnancy and how to make informed decisions about sexual behavior,
  • Building an organization to analyze and confront the obstacles keeping Latino males from attaining educational success in the university,
  • Exposing the ways in which raza communities engage in environmental justice work and how they help us envision more holistic eco-justice strategies to benefit communities.
• We are continuing to develop our Curriculum, and have recently added new courses that emphasize Policy Analysis and Comparative Ethnic Studies respectively.  As new faculty join us, we hope to continue to increase our graduate offerings. [Read more →]