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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 ...
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 ]
Paul F. Romberg, then-president of SFSU, proposed the creation of a field station and marine lab at the site. In 1978, the university began acquiring the land from the federal government for $1, under the condition that the site be used for education. [11] [5] The campus was originally named the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Sciences.
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 University of California College of the Law, San Francisco: Public: Law school: 1878 [1] ≈1,000
The arrival of Joe Verducci to San Francisco State from St. Mary's College was rather unexpected; after all, St. Mary's was a team that had defeated Texas Tech in the Cotton Bowl in 1939, and followed it up with appearances in the Sugar Bowl and the Oil Bowl in 1946 and 1947. [14] San Francisco State was coming off a shutout loss to Southern.
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.
After a private normal school closed in San Francisco after only one year, politicians John Swett and Henry B. Janes sought to establish a normal school for San Francisco's public school system, and approached George W. Minns to be the principal for the nascent institution [14] [15] The normal school began operations in 1857 and became known as the Minns Evening Normal School.