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Professor speaks about history of college
Quang Do
Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: News
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The SJSU campus used to include San Jose City College along with San Jose High School for a number of years, Beard said; between 1922 to 1935.
The school had title changes from normal school to common school and then university, she said. "The change was significant but the task was still for training teachers," Beard said.
There was a picture slideshow that made the audience laugh after a comment was made about the laboratory equipments, from the 1800sthat were probably still used today.
Beard said the College of Science started off in San Francisco but the city "didn't want to deal with providing a facility for the school," so it was moved six times until 1875 when San Jose offered 27 acres of swampy land, today known as Washington Square, which became permanent for the school then adopted the name San Jose State University, for the last time, in 1976.
Beard talked about the College of Science through a timeline when other events took place such as earthquakes, wars and presidential elections, while the school changed and added new programs such as summer school classes, had field trips and developed a graduation process, which didn't exist until the early 1900s.
Gerald Selter, former dean of the College of Science and current executive assistant to the university president, said that Beard came to SJSU as a professor in 1969 and she was the director of many science programs.
Selter said Beard has a long history with science at SJSU and that he encouraged the emeritus professor to give the presentation.
"Who else could be better for the job?" Selter said.
The school had title changes from normal school to common school and then university, she said. "The change was significant but the task was still for training teachers," Beard said.
There was a picture slideshow that made the audience laugh after a comment was made about the laboratory equipments, from the 1800sthat were probably still used today.
Beard said the College of Science started off in San Francisco but the city "didn't want to deal with providing a facility for the school," so it was moved six times until 1875 when San Jose offered 27 acres of swampy land, today known as Washington Square, which became permanent for the school then adopted the name San Jose State University, for the last time, in 1976.
Beard talked about the College of Science through a timeline when other events took place such as earthquakes, wars and presidential elections, while the school changed and added new programs such as summer school classes, had field trips and developed a graduation process, which didn't exist until the early 1900s.
Gerald Selter, former dean of the College of Science and current executive assistant to the university president, said that Beard came to SJSU as a professor in 1969 and she was the director of many science programs.
Selter said Beard has a long history with science at SJSU and that he encouraged the emeritus professor to give the presentation.
"Who else could be better for the job?" Selter said.
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