Advisors

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Thomas William Lester

Summer 2024 Advising for:

  • Undergraduate Advisor for URBP.
  • Undergraduate Advisor for GEOG.
  • Professor
  • Department Chair

PhD, UC Berkeley

WSQ 216D  |  408-924-5589
thomas.lester@sjsu.edu

 

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Rick Kos

  • Graduate Advisor (MUP & MPA programs)
  • Advanced Certificates Advisor (except GIS and CRED)
  • Practitioner in Residence
  • Senior Lecturer
  • Admissions Director
  • Faculty Advisor, Urban Planning Coalition

MRP Regional Planning, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

408-924-5854  |  WSQ 218C
richard.kos@sjsu.edu

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Kelly Snider

  • Advanced Certificates Advisor, Real Estate Development (CRED) 
  • CRED Director

CREDMCP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

WSQ 218C
kelly.snider@sjsu.edu

 

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Ahoura Zandiatashbar

  • GEOG Graduate Advisor
  • Geographic Information Science (GIS) Graduate Degree & Advanced Certificate Advisor

Ph.D in Urban Planning and Public Policy, University of Texas at Arlington

ahoura.zandiatashbar@sjsu.edu
408-924-5434  |  CL 406

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Gordon C. Douglas

PhD, University of Chicago

Not teaching Spring 2024
408-924-5852
gordon.douglas@sjsu.edu

General Advising

The College of Social Sciences Student Success Center provides advising for undergraduate students majoring or intent to major in any of the departments within the College of Social Sciences.

Web: www.sjsu.edu/socsci-ssc
Phone: 408-924-5363
Email: socsci-success@sjsu.edu
Location: Clark Hall 240