and Sustainable Communities. Edie Meidav, novelist, director of the MFA in Writing and Consciousness. David Meltzer, poet and musician of the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance, taught in the Poetics Program. A. C. Thompson, winner of the George Polk Award for Local Reporting for his series Forgotten City about San Francisco's public housing, and instructor in the Media Studies Graduate Program. References External links Universities and colleges in San Francisco Educational institutions disestablished in 2008 Educational institutions established in 1971 Defunct private universities and colleges in California Mission District, San Francisco Schools in Santa Rosa, California Universities and colleges in Sonoma County, California 1971 establishments in California 2008 disestablishments in California