Two finalists for the presidency of San Jose State University were announced today, four months after the California State University trustees rejected the first three candidates, saying none was the right match for the university.

They are Paul Yu, president since 1997 of State University of New York College at Brockport, and Richard S. Jarvis, outgoing chancellor of the Oregon University system. Yu will visit the campus April 13 and Jarvis on April 15.

Jarvis announced last month that he is stepping down at the end of June as chancellor of the Oregon system, which he has headed for almost two years. Press accounts described his resignation as a mutual decision with the state's higher education board, which had dramatically cut the chancellor's budget after coming under new leadership. The chancellor oversees the state's seven public campuses.

Before coming to Oregon, Jarvis was chancellor of the United States Open University from 1999 to 2002, and chancellor for five years of the University and Community College System of Nevada. He taught for 13 years at the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York before entering administration. He left Buffalo as assistant to the president, and worked for several years as vice president for academic affairs at SUNY-Fredonia. He followed that with four years as the SUNY system's vice provost for academic programs and research. Jarvis has a doctorate degree in geography from Cambridge University.

Before accepting the presidency at CUNY Brockport, Yu was was provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Butler University, a small private liberal arts college in Indianapolis. He started there as dean of Butler's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Yu taught for nearly a decade at Central Michigan University before he was named associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Central Michigan University. He also was a Fulbright lecturer in philosophy for a year at National Taiwan University. His doctorate degree in philosophy is from the University of Michigan.

Each candidate will speak and answer questions at an open forum from 10:15 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. during their campus visits. The forums will be held in the Engineering Building, Room 189.