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San Francisco State University's original campus was on Nob Hill, where it was established as the San Francisco State Normal School on Powell Street between Clay and Sacramento Streets. The 1906 earthquake and fire forced a relocation to Buchanan and Haight Streets, where the institution would remain for several decades. [ 77 ]
During this period, the school underwent several transformations: becoming San Francisco State Teachers College in 1921, San Francisco State College in 1935. [10] The shift to the current Lake Merced campus began during the Great Depression, when the site was still owned by Spring Valley Water Company. In 1939, SF State President Alexander ...
Table of the Universities and Colleges in San Francisco Name Public or private Type Founded Enrollment Colors San Francisco State University: Public: 1899 [1] 27,815 University of San Francisco: Private: 1855 [1] 11,086 Golden Gate University: Private: 1901 [1] 5,120 University of California, San Francisco: Public: Medical school: 1864 [2] 5,908
In 1968 and 1969, the TWLF held the longest student strikes in American history at SF State College with the goal of having fifteen demands be met. [2] The college was founded in Fall 1969 to meet a portion of the demands. [3] In 2016, hundreds of students protested against budget cuts to the college and for the expansion of the college's ...
The School of Cinema was founded amid the political activism and artistic experimentation of the 1960s. Originally part of the Broadcast and Electronic Arts Department, cinema faculty such as Jim Goldner successfully made the case to the university that filmmaking was both an art and industry, and that it needed to be housed in a separate department.
Jules Irving (1925–1979) – actor, director, co-director of the San Francisco Actors' Workshop, 1953–1965, and artistic director of the Repertory Company of Lincoln Center, NYC; Persis Karim (b. 1962) – poet, editor, the Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies [62]
Frederic Lister Burk was born September 1, 1862, in Blenheim, Canada West. [4] His parents were Matilda Turner (1822–1905), his English mother; and Erastus Burk (1816–1897), his American father. [4]
Lynn Mahoney (born 1964) is an American university president, author, and social historian.Mahoney is the president of San Francisco State University (SFSU) since July 2019, and is the first woman to hold this role.