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The California State Legislature approved the creation of the San Francisco State Normal School on the 22nd of March 1899. Frederic Lister Burk became the first president of this institution which began as a teacher training program for girls.
The main campus of San Francisco State University spans 144.1 acres in the southwestern part of San Francisco near Lake Merced. Land acquisition for this site was committed to by the state on the 12th of July 1939 after lobbying efforts by student body president Clifford Worth.
From the 6th of November 1968 to the 20th of March 1969 the longest student strike in American history took place at San Francisco State University. This strike reshaped ethnic studies programs and university governance while Richard Oakes led students in occupying Alcatraz Island during that period.
As of 2025 the university has 1,582 faculty comprising 690 tenured or tenure-track faculty and 882 lecturers. The student-faculty ratio at San Francisco State University stands at 25:1 in Spring 2025.
Construction began on the Village at Centennial Square at San Francisco State University on the 28th of March 1999. Verducci Hall was imploded after sustaining damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake and had sat vacant for a decade prior to this development.