Controversies
In 2011, USF President Stephen Privett, S.J., decided to sell KUSF in the face of large protests from San Francisco residents for $3.75 million.
In 2012, the University of San Francisco Law School was sued by former students for falsely inflating employment rates.
In September 2012, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Associate Dean, Dayle Smith, resigned from her administrative position as a result of increased enrollments of Chinese students with poor English skills. She did not, however, resign from her full-time, tenure faculty position. Business school Dean Mike Webber stated, in the announcement of Smith's exit, that the "considerable increase" in foreign students this year is not in and of itself a cause for concern. "But given that so many of these students have weak English skills and are disproportionately from one country, we are going to be faced with some unique pedagogical and cultural challenges."
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