| In 1932, the San José State University
Research Foundation's first project was the construction of the original football
stadium. Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration provided
the labor, then U.S. Senator James Duvel Phelan contributed the land,
and materials were contributed by our students and what was then San
José State College. The Research Foundation's second large project during
those Depression years was the reacquisition of the land at the corner
of Fourth and San Fernando Streets from the City of San José
which had constructed its Carnegie Library there. At that same corner
today, stands the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, a joint project
of the University and the city of San José. A state-of-the-art
facility, the library opened its doors in August of 2003, and is the
first cooperatively run library in the nation. |
| Those early projects were the beginning of the
Research Foundation's long and successful history of managing externally-funded
projects on behalf of San José State. Today the Research Foundation
employs 1,300 staff members and has annual revenues of $74 million.
Of that total, $41 million in federal, state, and private funding
supports SJSU's expanding research enterprise, placing San José
State among the top 200 universities in the country for total R&D
expenditures. |
| A 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, the SJSU
Research Foundation provides an entrepreneurial management structure through
which the campus carries out essential specialized instructional and
service activities not normally supported by the state budget, while
also eliminating undue governmental, budgetary, procurement, and other
state fiscal restrictions. Our central administration is organized
to provide the kind of comprehensive business infrastructure and professional
services that make it possible for our faculty to focus more on research
and project deliverables, and less on administrative details. |
| The Research Foundation's commitment to superior service
has never been stronger. We invite faculty, as well as current and
prospective sponsors and donors, to partner with us to solve real-world
problems and make new ideas happen throughout the Silicon Valley and
beyond. |
