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A prestigious new university coming to San Francisco next year is opening an arts campus with a major boost from Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang and his wife, Lori Huang, who donated $75 million to help launch the school.
Vanderbilt University, which is set to replace the California College of the Arts in fall 2027, announced its flagship arts college on Tuesday. Dubbed the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang College of Art, Architecture and Design, the college has received more than $100 million from donors in addition to the hefty donation from the Huangs, the university said in a news release.
The university also announced Tuesday that it has launched a national search for the founding dean of the arts college, which will be focused on combining "art, architecture, design, engineering and entrepreneurship," it said in a news release.
While Vanderbilt is set to be located at 145 Hooper St. in San Francisco's Potrero Hill, the new arts college will be located around the corner from the main campus and on the second floor of 80 Carolina St., according to the San Francisco Chronicle. (The Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.)
After acquiring the California College of the Arts' property and assets, Vanderbilt officials hope to "build on the nearly 120-year legacy" of the previous school, Julia Jordan, a spokesperson for the university, told SFGATE. There will also be a "solicitation-of-interest process" for open positions at the new arts college for previous California College of the Arts faculty members, Jordan said. Current students at the California College of the Arts who cannot complete their degree will be assisted with transfer options called "teach-out" arrangements, she added.
Major Jackson, the chair of Vanderbilt's humanities department, said the arts will be an important part of the new college's future.
"It is thrilling that Vanderbilt University-San Francisco will help shape generations of artists to come in a rich environment of artistic exploration by providing robust opportunities of collaborative learning and dynamic exchange with award-winning artists as their faculty and mentors," Jackson said in a statement.
Vanderbilt's San Francisco campus is set to enroll approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, according to its website. The university has been supported by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who previously called it "an unparalleled setting for Vanderbilt to shape the future of higher education."
The Nashville-based university also has plans to expand to New York City with classes set to begin in fall 2026, as well as to West Palm Beach, Florida, with classes expected to start in fall 2029, SFGATE previously reported.
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