Amid Turmoil, SFAI Will Resume Offering Classes in the Fall, Leaving Staff with Concerns

After four months of turmoil, the San Francisco Art Institute, one of the United States’s top art schools, threw a curveball in late July when it announced that it would resume degree-granting classes this fall for those within a year of earning a degree. The nearly 150-year-old school had suspended academic programs indefinitely in March as the result of a long-brewing financial crisis that was disastrously worsened by the pandemic.Back in March, SFAI said that it saw “no clear path