C-Level View :: June 13, 2007 -- Campus Technology

San Jose State University AVP Mary Jo Gorney-Moreno comments on the process of creating a high-tech student success center on campus.

By Mary Grush

CT: How did the idea for an Academic Success Center come about?

Gorney-Moreno: The project actually began as a secondary effect of building a new library....

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