Interim Provost and
VP for Academic Affairs
Dr. Gerry Selter was born in 1940 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Wayne State University in 1962, and his Ph.D. in 1967 from Washington State University. After receiving his Ph.D., he did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley from 1966 to 1968 where he also was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry for the 1967-68 academic year. In the fall of 1968 he joined the faculty of San José State University where he taught organic chemistry and conducted research in the general areas of the transmission of electrical effects in reaction intermediates, and the relationships between substrate reactivity and intrinsic solvent properties in solvent induced organic reactions. After serving briefly as Acting Chemistry Department Chair, he became Interim Associate Dean then Interim Dean in the College of Science during the 1993-94 academic year. In July 1994 he was appointed Dean of the College of Science, a position he held for 11 years. In January 2005 he joined Office of the President and the University’s senior staff as Executive Assistant to the President. In July 2009 he was appointed as Interim Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs.
In his capacity as Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Dr. Selter provides leadership to the Division of Academic Affairs at San José State University which includes seven colleges (Applied Sciences and the Arts, Business, Education, Engineering, Humanities and the Arts and Social Sciences), the University Library, and administrative offices such as Undergraduate Studies, Graduate Studies and Research, International and Extended Studies, Institutional Research, Faculty Affairs, Academic Technology, and the SJSU Research Foundation.
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