The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California. Headquartered in Oakland,the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,Los Angeles,Merced,Riverside,San Diego,San Francisco,Santa Barbara,and Santa Cruz,along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. The system is the state's land-grant university.
San Francisco State University is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system.
California State University,San Marcos is a public university in San Marcos,California. It was founded in 1989 as the 21st campus in the California State University (CSU) system. CSUSM offers 43 bachelor's degree programs,23 master's degree programs,an Ed.D. program,and 13 teaching credentials.
A provost is a senior academic administrator. At many institutions of higher education,the provost is the chief academic officer,a role that may be combined with being deputy to the chief executive officer. They may also be the chief executive officer of a university,of a branch campus of a university,or of a college within a university.
Carol Tecla Christ is an American former academic administrator. She served as the 11th Chancellor of the University of California,Berkeley,from 2017 to 2024.
New College of California was a college founded in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1971 by former Gonzaga University President John Leary. It ceased operations in early 2008.
Alliant International University is a private for-profit university with its main campus in San Diego,five additional campuses in California and one campus in Phoenix,Arizona. Its enrollment is approximately 4,000 students,of whom 95% are graduate students.
Robert Anthony Corrigan was an American academic who served as the 12th president of San Francisco State University from 1988 to 2012.
Steve C. Currall is an American psychological scientist and academic administrator,and served as the seventh president of the University of South Florida. He previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Southern Methodist University from January 1,2016. From 2009 to 2014,Currall served as Dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has also held leadership roles at University College London and Rice University. On March 22,2019,Currall was named to succeed Judy Genshaft as president of the University of South Florida,and took office July 1,2019. He announced his resignation due to health and family reasons on July 19,2021.
Timothy Peter White is a retired academic administrator and kinesiologist. He served as the chancellor of the California State University system from December 2012 to December 2020. He was the chancellor of the Riverside campus of the University of California from 2008 to 2012.
The AMCHA Initiative is a non-partisan organization aiming to combat antisemitism on campuses through investigation,documentation,and education in order to protect Jewish students from assault and fear. AMCHA was founded in 2012 by University of California Santa Cruz lecturer Tammi Rossman-Benjamin and University of California Los Angeles Professor Emeritus Leila Beckwith. The term Amcha is Hebrew for "your people" or "your nation."
Ana Mari Cauce is an American psychologist and academic administrator,currently serving as the 33rd president of the University of Washington since October 2015.
Nancy H. Hensel is an American academic and university administrator. She held faculty positions at the University of Toledo and University of Redlands before joining the University of Maine system in 1992. In 1992[6] Hensel was appointed Dean of the College of Education at the University of Maine at Farmington.[11] From 1995 to 1999 she filled the post of Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs.[11] In 1999 she was named to a one-year term as interim president of the University of Maine at Presque Isle,becoming the second woman to head the campus in its history.[1] In 2000 she acceded to the presidency.[5] In 2004 she was appointed CEO of the Council on Undergraduate Research in Washington,D.C.,for seven years,and then became the first president of The New American Colleges and Universities in 2011. She has authored numerous books,articles,and monographs. Her research interests include early childhood education,gender equality,and work–family conflict and undergraduate research. She was inducted into the Maine Women's Hall of Fame in 2003.
Harold Hellenbrand is a retired American college professor,scholar,administrator,and author. He has held several faculty and administrative roles at various institutions,such as the Chair of the English department at California State University,San Bernardino,Dean at the University of Minnesota Duluth,Dean at California Polytechnic State University,San Luis Obispo,and most notably,Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs at California State University,Northridge,where until his retirement he taught in the English department. He is known especially for his biography of Thomas Jefferson,The Unfinished Revolution:Education and Politics in the Thought of Thomas Jefferson.
Lisa Vollendorf is an American academic and current President of Empire State University,part of the State University of New York (SUNY). Previously she served as Interim Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Northern Colorado,and as Special Advisor for Academic Planning and Operational Continuity for the California State University system (2020–21),where she provided strategic support related to crisis management and longer-term continuity planning for the nation's largest four-year public education system.
Lynn Mahoney 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. Her scholarly work has focused on United States history,women's history,feminism,race studies,and ethnicity. She is the author of Elizabeth Stoddard and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Culture;a book about novelist and poet Elizabeth Stoddard.
The history of San Francisco State University began in 1857,with a teacher-training program at a high school,which led to the creation of San Francisco State Normal School. It became San Francisco State Teachers College,San Francisco State College,and California State University,San Francisco before becoming San Francisco State University as it's known today.
Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi is a Palestinian-born American scholar,activist,educator,editor,and an academic director. She is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies,Race and Resistance Studies,and the founding Director of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Colleen Flaherty of Inside Higher Education described her as "a controversial figure in an already controversial field".
Andrea E. Chapdelaine is an American academic administrator and social psychologist serving as the 12th President of Connecticut College. She was formerly the 11th President of Hood College 2015 to 2024.
