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 abroad centers. The system is the state's land-grant university. Major publications generally rank most UC campuses as being among the best universities in the world. In 1900,UC was one of the founders of the Association of American Universities and since the 1970s seven of its campuses,in addition to Berkeley,have been admitted to the association. Berkeley,Davis,Santa Cruz,Irvine,Los Angeles,Santa Barbara,and San Diego are considered Public Ivies,making California the state with the most universities in the nation to hold the title. UC campuses have large numbers of distinguished faculty in almost every academic discipline,with UC faculty and researchers having won 71 Nobel Prizes as of 2021.
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.
The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a public university in Staten Island,New York. It is one of the 11 four-year senior colleges within the City University of New York system. Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studies lead to bachelor's and associate degrees. The master's degree is awarded in 13 professional and liberal arts and sciences fields of study. A clinical doctorate is awarded by the department of physical therapy. The college participates in doctoral programs of the CUNY Graduate Center in biochemistry,biology,chemistry,computer science,nursing,physics,and psychology.
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.
The University of Bridgeport is a nonprofit private university in Bridgeport,Connecticut. The university is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education. In 2021,the university was purchased by Goodwin University;it retained its own name,brand,and board of trustees.
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.
City College of San Francisco is a public community college in San Francisco,California,United States. Founded as a junior college in 1935,the college plays an important local role,enrolling as many as one in nine San Francisco residents annually. CCSF is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).
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 is an American academic who served as the 12th president of San Francisco State University from 1988 to 2012.
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 pro-Israel American campus group that seeks to undermine BDS activities on campuses. 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."
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.
Mary Arshagouni Papazian is the former president of San Jose State University. She has had over 25 years of prior experience in academia,having been the past president of Southern Connecticut State University and the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Lehman College. She resigned from her post in 2021.
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.
Thomas Christos Katsouleas is an American physicist,engineer,and academic administrator. In February 2019,he was named the 16th president of the University of Connecticut and officially began his term in August. He resigned the presidency in 2021 and returned to the faculty.
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). She is a controversial political figure,which is in part due to larger political issues around her field of study.
