Longtime leader guides S.F. State through crisis
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San Francisco Business Times
By Sarah Duxbury

In more than two decades at the helm, President Robert Corrigan has transformed San Francisco State University into a model of urban, public education — albeit one in line with his own values.

Those values include diversity and accessibility, and a sense of an urban university’s role in its community. So Corrigan has looked beyond the university, to San Francisco’s civic and business institutions, to make his school more relevant.

Corrigan describes himself as a product of the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s.

“From that comes my sense of the need to reform the nature of higher education. We need to open our doors to disadvantaged youth, minorities, more women,” he said. “Those are my values, and what I want to see here.”