De'Ron Jasper

De’Ron Jasper joins SJSU in July of 2023 after spending four years as a member of the University of Colorado athletic department, and two years as the assistant athletic director for academic services and operations, having been promoted to the position on July 1, 2021. 
 
He had previously been promoted to an associate director of academics in the Herbst Academic Center on July 1, 2020.  He had joined the Colorado staff as an assistant director on July 16, 2019.
 
Prior to his arriving at CU, Jasper served as Academic Coordinator of Student-Athletes at Mercer University (Macon, Ga.). His responsibilities at Mercer included academic oversight of football, women’s basketball, women’s golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s golf, men’s lacrosse and men’s soccer. Also, he assisted in the study hall and tutoring programs and was the textbook coordinator. While at Mercer, he helped the school win three consecutive Barrett-Bonner awards (given to the Southern Conference University with the highest percentage of student-athletes over a 3.0 GPA).
 
Jasper previously served as an adjunct instructor at Old Dominion University in the Darden College of Education.  He simultaneously served as the director of Project Launch through the Virginia Modeling Analysis Simulation Center.  Project Launch is a program designed to assist at-risk students in their pursuit of post-secondary education enrollment and job acquisition while enrolled as a junior or senior in high school.
 
Jasper graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) with a bachelor’s degree in management and a minor in psychology.  While pursuing his bachelor’s degree, he was a scholarship student-athlete (football) and three-time letterman. He then attended Old Dominion as a graduate student-athlete and lettered an additional year in football. Jasper graduated from there with a master’s in Science in Education.
 
He is an active member in the National Association of Academic Advisors for Athletics (N4A), National Consortium for Academics and Sports (NCAS), National Academic Advising Association (NACADA), and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated.  He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Education from Old Dominion.
 
He was born in Richmond, Va., and graduated from Dunwoody High School in Atlanta, Ga., where he lettered in football, basketball, track and field and in band (saxophone).  (first name is pronounced day-ron)