Adobe + CSU Center of Excellence at SJSU

Overview

The Adobe + CSU Center of Excellence at San José State University advances equitable, future-ready teaching and learning by fostering exploration, innovation, and digital fluency across the CSU-system. It empowers students, faculty, staff, and community partners to develop creative, critical, and ethical capacities using Adobe Express and emerging AI-enabled tools.

Part of the CSU + Adobe for All initiative, the Center functions as both a physical and a digital hub, providing training, hands-on workshops, curricular resources, and pedagogical consultation that enable intentional integration of multimodal, digital, and AI-enabled learning experiences. The promotes inclusive, scaffolded pathways to digital literacy, particularly in high-impact courses such as First-Year Writing (FYW) and DFW-rate courses, where strengthened creative and AI literacies can significantly improve retention, close equity gaps, and enhance student engagement at scale. 

The Hub

More information coming soon.

Spring 2026 Learning Summit  

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The Team 

Dr. Magdalena Barrera (SJSU Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Accreditation Liaison Officer)

Dr. Ryan Skinnell (Adobe + CSU Center Director and SJSU Professor of Rhetoric and Writing)

Dr. Yingjie Liu (Director of Digital Learning Strategies, SJSU Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation) 

Dr. Friederike Bruehoefener (Assistant Vice Provost, SJSU Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation)