More than 500 students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of USF, including U.S. House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and San Francisco’s city leaders, gathered in St. Ignatius Church on Oct. 18 to ...

For students who are the first in their families to enroll in college, financial barriers can often obstruct the path to a degree. Intimidation about a perceived lack of affordability, and a ...

The eighth annual Day of the Dons celebrated a return to campus with a student carnival and commencement ceremonies for USF’s newest alumni. Over 3,135 donors raised a record-setting $1.86 million in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (May 13, 2025) – The Board of Trustees of the University of San Francisco (USF) has elected Salvador D. Aceves ’83, EdD ’95 as the university’s 29th president. Incoming President Aceves ...

On Thursday, February 12, the University of San Francisco publicly dedicated its main campus thoroughfare, honoring the life and legacy of Bill Russell ’56. USF unveiled The Bill Russell Way shortly ...

Adriana Guerrero-Nardone MNA ’18 helps a surfer with her gear. On a foggy morning in April, when a group of young women from Oakland paddled out to take a surfing lesson at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica ...

St. Ignatius Church stands at 210 feet high and serves as a spiritual and physical guide for many at USF and in San Francisco. The historic landmark is attached to the university campus, but owned and ...

Timothy Chou’s dedication is deeply rooted in the legacy of his mother, Mary Ann Chou. A trailblazer in her own right, Mary Ann was a nurse trained at Peking Union Medical College in the 1930s and ...

Derick Brown, Nico Bremond, and Leslie Lombre in front of the Leo T. McCarthy Center mural The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good is a center at the University of San ...

Dan Levy, upper left corner, hangs out with USF students at Donaroo. “Schitt’s Creek” award-winning writer, actor, director and producer Dan Levy advised students to follow their dreams in a Q&A with ...

Where are you from and what is your background? Though I have largely resided on Chochenyo Ohlone Land over the past 21 years in Berkeley, CA, I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine. The battles on the front ...

For seven and half years from 1960 to April 4, 1968, I was privileged to serve Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a political advisor and subsequently as his personal lawyer and draft speech writer. With ...