Two major forces are at play: Gov. Gavin Newsom scaled back his promise of increased financial support for Cal State, while university officials agreed to 5% salary increases earlier this year.

San Jose State University police initially responded at 5:18pm on March 31 to a fire on campus and determined that it had been set on purpose.

While the Cal State and UC systems received more money in 2023, they still face financial challenges. And they also must address labor strife.

A $113 million lease-buy-back deal will convert the south tower of the former Fairmont Hotel in downtown San Jose into a 700-bed student residence hall.

San Jose State trainer Scott Shaw was sentenced Tuesday to serve 24 months in federal prison for unlawfully touching female student athletes under the guise of providing medical treatment.

Faculty members at California State University campuses also are at impasse in labor negotiations.

Student workers at the 23-campus CSU system say their pay is low, their hours are restricted and they get no sick pay. They are hoping to join the employees union to fix that.

During the first year of the program, SJSU is offering guaranteed admission to 14 majors, including many in sought-after fields of study, including business, engineering, public health, political science and child and adolescent development. 

Scott Shaw's trial in U.S. District Court in San Jose on civil rights violations ended in a mistrial, but now he faces time in prison after pleading guilty.

The release of the report came on the day that jury selection began in the federal trial of former San Jose State athletic trainer Scott Shaw on federal civil rights charges, and also came less than a week after CSU trustees announced the appointment of a new chancellor, Mildred Garcia, effective Oct. 1.

Mildred García confronts a budget shortfall, declining enrollment and complaints about how Cal State officials have handled sexual misconduct allegations.

Under his May budget plan, Gov. Gavin Newsom wants the UC and CSU to get more state student housing in 2023-24, but the universities would have to borrow the money through bonds. The state would pay the interest on the bonds annually.

In the 1960s the San Jose State grad predicted the rapid advances in computer chip technology, which became known as the iconic Moore's Law, charting a course for the age of high tech.

A scholarly paper released today in the journal Current Biology concludes that the lock of hair at the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University was not Beethoven’s, but rather from an Ashkenazi Jewish woman.

Restorative justice is a controversial process that brings together the student who was harmed, the person who harmed them and the community to seek solutions.

The student, Camdan McWright, 18, was riding an electric scooter that was hit about 6:50am by a school bus at South 10th and East Reed streets, about two blocks from the campus, authorities said.