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The university was founded as San Jose Bible College in 1939, in San Jose by William Lee Jessup, the college's first president. Eugene Claremont Sanderson had originally started Evangel Bible University in San Jose in 1934 but was unable to make it viable. As a result, he recruited Jessup, one of his former students, to take over.
He founded several schools across the United States that still exist including Christian Workers University (now Manhattan Christian College) in 1927 in Manhattan, Kansas; and Evangel Bible University (now William Jessup University in Rocklin, California) in 1934 in San Jose, California. This latter institution did not do well and his health ...
Thirty-two people have led San Jose State since its founding including eight principals, 15 presidents, five acting presidents, and four interim presidents. [2] The longest-serving president of the university was Thomas William MacQuarrie, who held the office for twenty five years from 1927 to 1952. The shortest-serving president of the ...
The San Jose State Spartans college football team represent San Jose State University in the Mountain West Conference. The Spartans competed in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) College Division in the years 1921–1968. In 1969, the team moved to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I.
2014 – William Jessup University (now Jessup University) joined the GSAC in the 2012–13 academic year. 2015 – Concordia–Irvine left the GSAC and the NAIA to join the NCAA Division II ranks and the PacWest after the 2014–15 academic year. 2015 – Menlo College joined the GSAC in the 2015–16 academic year.
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Heller grew up in San Jose, California in a family with strong Christian values. [1] She didn't listen to music much as a child. [1] She attended high school at Valley Christian High School [2] and then went on to attend college at San Jose Christian College (now William Jessup University) [3] and began writing songs in her second year. [1]