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San José State University
Higher Education
Opening Up Higher Education with Collaboration Technology
As the number one supplier of education, 
engineering, computer science, and 
business graduates to Silicon Valley, San 
José State University (SJSU) is an incubator 
for top tech talent. With the largest graduate 
student enrollment of any campus in the 
California State University system, SJSU 
is consistently ranked high in U.S. News & 
World Report’s annual survey of America’s 
best colleges.
SJSU strives to enrich the lives of students 
and transmit knowledge using the latest 
technology. It was an early adopter of 
collaboration technologies to add flexibility 
to education delivery and to enable 
international partnerships. 
Challenge: Building on 
Collaboration Success
From virtual lectures to asynchronous 
learning, SJSU quickly proved the 
value of collaboration technologies. It 
launched virtual classes to add flexibility, 
brought in experts to enrich learning, 
extended the reach of its programs, and 
helped traveling faculty stay connected. 
Attendance rose and student academic 
performance improved in major courses. 
But these early successes were only the 
beginning. The university had identified 
many use cases for digital collaboration 
and began to put them into practice.
Face-to-Face Communication
Enhancing Social Work Education in 
Vietnam
SJSU’s College of Applied Sciences and 
Arts hosts the Social Work Education 
Enhancement Program (SWEEP), an 
initiative to develop and carry out a 
curriculum that is relevant and adaptable 
to Vietnam’s changing needs. Eight 
Vietnamese universities participate in the 
program, using Cisco WebEx
®
 technology 
for regular biweekly leadership meetings 
that involve the SWEEP team and high-level 
representatives of the partner universities. 
Participants in San Jose use a Cisco
®
 video 
conferencing system and a fully integrated 
next-generation conference room to 
communicate face to face with participants 
in Vietnam. 
“The ability to conduct video meetings 
and build strategic partnerships with 
Vietnamese universities is contributing 
to the development of social work in 
Vietnam,” says Debra Faires, the director 
of online learning at SJSU’s School of 
Information. “Our partners can connect to 
video meetings via Cisco WebEx on their 
San José State University:
Size: 32,800 students 
Industry: Higher education 
Location: Americas
United States
San Jose, CA
Solutions
•  Video and web conferencing 
support distance learning and 
global educational partnerships
•  Lecture capture expands access 
to popular courses and extends 
classrooms to hard-to-reach 
places
•  Collaboration-based teaching 
enhances learning experiences
For More Information
For more information on Cisco 
collaboration solutions visit:  
http:///www.cisco.com/go/
collaboration