The State - News from Sept. 16, 1988
A former chancellor of the University of Massachusetts has been named as the 12th president of San Francisco State University. Cal State trustees, meeting in Long Beach, chose Robert A. Corrigan, 53, an authority on poet Ezra Pound, from among four finalists. Corrigan succeeds Chia-Wei Woo, who resigned to head a new technical university in Hong Kong. “It’s a first-rate opportunity,” Corrigan said of his appointment to head the system’s fifth-largest campus. San Francisco State has 26,000 students and a staff of 3,000. Corrigan is credited with transforming the University of Massachusetts’ Boston campus, which he headed, into a nationally recognized university.
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