Paul Yu, the president of the State University of New York College at Brockport, was appointed as the new president of San Jose State University on Tuesday.

"Paul Yu will be a remarkable president," said Bill Hauck, a member of the California State University Board of Trustees. "He will provide the leadership to chart the future course of the campus and the vision to expand its academic reputation."

Yu, a professor of philosophy, has been president of SUNY-Brockport since 1997. Prior to that, he was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Butler University.

He also served as associated dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and chair of the philosophy department at Central Michigan University. He also was a Fulbright Lecturer in Philosophy at National Taiwan University.

"I am delighted to have the opportunity to become a member of San Jose State University, an institution with a great past and, in view of its enormous potential, an even greater future," Yu said.

The new president's salary will be set by the CSU Board of Trustees in May. Yu will assume the presidency on July 15.

Yu succeeds Bob Caret who left last summer to assume the presidency of Towson University in Maryland. Joseph N. Crowley, a former president of the University of Nevada, Reno, has been serving as interim president of SJSU.

Founded in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university in the Western United States. It currently enrolls 30,000 students in its eight colleges.