Alumni & Friends, Stay Connected with BSS

As one of the largest and oldest colleges on campus, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSS) was founded in 1964, from the expanded Department of Social Sciences, which was originally founded in 1949. Each of our individual BSS disciplines has a rich history of integrating teaching, research and service in ways that provide the College with a cherished reputation of educating scholars willing to make a difference in the community.

The Mission of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences is to provide and to promote teaching, scholarship and service that enhance appreciation and understanding of the behavioral, social and natural mosaic of life on earth and promote active engagement in shaping our world.

1. Offering a curriculum which recognizes and is responsive to changing societal needs, where issues of social justice and environmental sustainability that expand our students’ sense of possibilities for themselves and for their communities are explored.
2. Maintaining a rich and challenging intellectual environment that prepares students for effective participation in family life and service to their community, nation, and the world at large.
3. Creating healthy, strong departments and programs that prepare and support students as they advance to careers, graduate and professional studies.
4. Building integrative reasoning and problem solving skills while actively encouraging scholarly faculty and student research within and across multiple disciplines.
5. Preparing students to exhibit socio-cultural competence in their academic and professional practice.

BSS is the largest college of its type in the entire California State University system. Its rapidly growing population of students in the past three years is truly impressive. BSS has hired more new faculty during the last five years than any other college in the nation, and searches for twenty-five new faculty members to join the College next year continue. These additions of the best faculty in the world to the already superb BSS faculty position us well to be a model of excellence in our subject areas for the long-term.

The College of Behavioral & Social Sciences Web site bss.sfsu.edu provides a more comprehensive introduction to the College – its programs, its projects and its personnel.

To reconnect with members of the SF State Community please consider joining SF State's inCircle online networking tool at incircle.sfsu.edu . You may use your University ID number in place of your Alumni ID, or contact Senem Evrim Özer, College Relations Officer for BSS with feedback or questions:

Senem Evrim Özer
San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Avenue, HSS Room 359, San Francisco, CA 94132-1722
Phone: 415/405-2418

You may also want to take a look at the State of the College Semi-Annual Report that is now available online for some of the recent highlights and news from BSS.