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SF State Foundation strengthens commitment to racial and climate justice with enhanced investment goals

Foundation integrates racial equity in investment strategies, commits to net-zero by 2040 and fossil fuel divestment by 2025

Navajo researcher’s work highlights his community’s resilience during pandemic

Wilfred Denetclaw shifted from cell biology to epidemiology to understand how COVID-19 impacted his community

SF State student joins campaign to ban caste discrimination, receives top CSU award

CSU grants Manmit Singh 2022 Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement for commitment to community building

SF State Athletics announces Hall of Fame class of 2022

San Francisco State University Athletics is pleased to announce the induction of six individual Gator standouts and one team into the San Francisco State Athletics Hall of Fame. The members of the class of 2022 are Naveed Bagheri (Wrestling), Garry Bradford (Basketball), Joe Garrity (Football),…

Service-minded businesswoman, biotech leader named 2022 Alumni of the Year

Innovators in comedy, wine and sustainable business are the 2022 Alumni Hall of Fame inductees

Aug. 17 Convocation marks start of new academic year

The annual welcome back event was held in-person and livestreamed

Black Lives Matter @ SF State

Dear campus community, Nearly a month ago, San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney affirmed in a campus email our role as an engine of educational and economic equity for Black students and communities and committed the University to action. In the intervening weeks, we have engaged…

Juneteenth 2020: Celebrating and Realizing Freedom

On June 19, 1865, the promise of the Emancipation Proclamation was finally fulfilled when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned that the Civil War was over and that slavery had ended. In the decades that followed, the date provided an opportunity for African Americans to celebrate…

Cultural Humility in the Face of Tragedy and Turmoil

George Valentine. George Floyd. Christian Cooper. On March 25, George Valentine, an aide to the mayor of Washington D.C., struggling to breathe, entered the hospital and died two days later, a victim of COVID-19. On May 25, George Floyd died after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a…

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