San Jose State University sits at the epicenter of technological innovation, bridging the world of higher education with the dynamic ecosystem of Silicon Valley. As universities across the country grapple with reimagining digital learning, SJSU is reinventing how higher education can be enhanced through innovative technologies. To explore their approach, Ray is joined by Dr. Vincent Del Casino, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs at San Jose State.

Guest Name: Dr. Vincent Del Casino, Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, San Jose State University

Guest Social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincent-j-del-casino-jr-0a060356/

Guest Bio: As SJSU’s provost and senior vice president for Academic Affairs, Dr. Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. serves as a key member of the university president’s leadership team with primary responsibility for ensuring academic excellence in undergraduate and graduate studies as well as a continual commitment to research, scholarship, and creative activities that benefit all students and society at large.

At the University of Arizona, Del Casino provided leadership and administrative oversight as the campus redeveloped central spaces for student support activities; re-organized its central administrative areas; increased online enrollment and program offerings; and enhanced student success and retention. With more than 18 years of academic and administrative experience in higher education, he also served as professor and chair of the Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach.

Del Casino is a prolific writer and researcher who authored the book Social Geography: A Critical Introduction. He has also edited, co-edited and co-authored multiple other books and published dozens of articles and book chapters on topics ranging from health, robots and robotic technologies, cartographic theory, and tourism, in the context of geography. His numerous commentaries on higher education have been published in The Evolllution and Inside Higher Education, including “Machine Learning, Big Data and the Future of Higher Education.”

Prior to earning his doctorate in geography from the University of Kentucky, Del Casino received his master’s in geography from the University of Wisconsin and bachelor’s in international relations and East Asian studies from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania.

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