San Francisco State University has a proud tradition of organizing conferences for Constitution and Citizenship Day, a national holiday that commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution in 1787.

KQED-FM (SAN FRANCISCO) -- One of San Francisco State’s most influential anti-Vietnam War organizers was a popular English instructor named George Mason Murray. He also happened to be the minister of ...

JEWISH PRESS -- In 2001, Hatem Bazian founded Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Berkeley. Bazian was born in Nablus, went to high school in Amman, Jordan and came to the U.S ...

DAILY NEXUS (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA) -- The final dance of the night, “Libète,” Haitian for “freedom,” was dedicated to Alicia Pierce. A Haitian dance teacher at SFSU, Pierce passed ...

CHICO ENTERPRISE-RECORD -- The Graduates of Distinction Committee selected Jeff Carpenter, Kathy Leighton and Nancy Marquez-Suarez to be honored for “leading lives that remain true to the core values ...

SYFY WIRE -- Most cartoon characters are unaware that they’re naked, unless a designer puts them into a costume. Animation historian and San Francisco State media professor Karl Cohen says that early ...

THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS -- Back when the sun was setting on the 1970s, I was studying playwriting at San Francisco State University and living with tw ...

A selection of outstanding films of the last two years from Romania, including documentaries and the famed director Radu Jude's epic farce about making movies.

Caro De Robertis spent election night 2024 in their Oakland home, huddled around the TV with their children, ages 12 and 15. “My kids are Black and Latinx, growing up in a queer family, with one trans ...

San Francisco State University alumnus Conall Jones (B.A., ’05) was floored when he learned the short documentary film he produced with the production company Smartypants was nominated for an Oscar.

THE NEW FILLMORE (SAN FRANCISCO) -- Hardly anyone seemed to be working. There was a recession underway. I was teaching a fiction writing class one night a week at San Francisco State. Terry collected ...

San Francisco, CA, February, 2023 ‐‐‐ One of San Francisco’s treasures, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at San Francisco State, has reached a major milestone: two decades of service to ...