California Institute of Integral Studies

California Institute of Integral Studies
The main campus building of CIIS (2020)
TypePrivate university
Established1968; 56 years ago (1968)
PresidentBrock Blomberg
Students1,510
Location, ,
United States
Websitewww.ciis.edu
Campus of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ACTCM), with community clinic (2020)

The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) is a private university in San Francisco, California.[1][2][3] It was founded in 1968. As of 2020, the institute operates in two locations: the main campus near the confluence of the Civic Center, SoMa, and Mission districts, and another campus for the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.[4] As of 2020, CIIS has a total of 1,510 students and 80 core faculty members.[5]

Although the institute has no official spiritual path, some of its historical roots lie among followers of the Bengali sage Sri Aurobindo.[6] The term "Integral", in the school's name, refers to Aurobindo's Integral Yoga (purnayoga), here interpreted as the integration of mind, body, and spirit.

  1. ^ Taylor, Bron R. (2005). The encyclopedia of religion and nature (1 ed.). London [u.a.]: Thoemmes Continuum. p. 251. ISBN 9781843711384. OCLC 315210594.
  2. ^ Otterman, Sharon. "Merging Spirituality and Clinical Psychology at Columbia". New York Times, Aug. 9, 2012
  3. ^ Aanstoos, C. Serlin, I., & Greening, T. (2000). History of Division 32 (Humanistic Psychology) of the American Psychological Association. In D. Dewsbury (Ed.), Unification through Division: Histories of the divisions of the American Psychological Association, Vol. V. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  4. ^ "Map and Directions". www.ciis.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-30.
  5. ^ "CIIS at a Glance".
  6. ^ "From the American Academy of Asian Studies to the California Institute of Integral Studies" [1]