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Now that a new semester has begun with all large lecture classes online for the first time in San Jose State University’s history, SJSU students face unique challenges and opportunities.
Students are expected now more than ever to learn new software to keep up with classes, or may want to fill time that was once used commuting to pick up new skills or start new creative projects.
Thanks to a partnership between SJSU and Adobe Creative Cloud, all of that can be accomplished at no cost. Current SJSU students can access Adobe’s entire software suite for free from the Student Adobe Webpage. This includes apps like Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Pro and Illustrator.
The software suite can be downloaded on students, faculty, staff, and administrators’ campus and home computers. And if they need any help learning how to use Adobe’s products, there are also regular workshops and resources accessible from the Student Adobe Webpage. (The software may only be used for SJSU-related activities and may not be used for commercial purposes.)
SJSU Provost Vincent Del Casino Jr. said in an email that the university’s partnership with Adobe in offering free software to students is particularly important in an age where creativity blossoms through technology.
“Resting at the heart of the diverse software packages now available to all students is the notion that certain forms of creativity can be unleashed through a growing digital literacy,” he said.
In a statement over email, Mateo Garcia De La Quintana, president of the Spartan Ad Club, and Andrea Perez, a member of the ad club’s board, said that Adobe software is an essential part of their daily lives. They use applications included in Adobe Creative Cloud to create social media posts and edit videos and photographs using programs like Premiere and Photoshop.
De La Quintana and Perez said Adobe is useful for students in many different majors such as nursing or engineering, not just students of the arts.
“Adobe is for hidden talent in all of us,” they said in their statement. “For some of us, it’s part of our everyday lives and as students, we are glad to have these programs for free.”
Del Casino Jr. said that working with type, video and audio to create original content allows students to demonstrate knowledge and digital literacy skills.
“It makes sense for this partnership to continue and advance as our students become even greater creative thinkers,” he said.
