One of the four San Francisco State University students on a hunger strike to protest cuts in funding for the school’s ethnic studies program was hospitalized Monday night.

Hunger striker Julia Retzlaff, 19, was rushed to a hospital around 10:30 p.m. after complaining of chest pains, according to an online post from Defend and Advance Ethnic Studies at SF State. An employee in the school’s department of ethnic studies confirmed Retzlaff had been hospitalized.

A photo posted by supporters on Facebook showed the student in a hospital gown with one hand raised in a fist and the other connected to an IV.

“Her heart rate and blood pressure were way too high so doctors indicated she needed to go to the hospital right away. Her EKG looks good but they are going to do more blood work,” the post read.

In the same post, Retzlaff added, "Thank you everybody for the support, the fight continues!"

Retzlaff and her fellow hunger strikers — Ahkeel Andres Mestayer, 20, Hassani Bell, 18, and Sachiel Rosen, 19 — have gone without solid food for nine days and counting to protest steep cuts in funding to the College of Ethnic Studies.

Actor Danny Glover, who graduated from the school in 1971, joined around 300 students, faculty and alumni Monday at an afternoon rally near the center of the campus.

Kenneth Monteiro, dean of the ethnic studies college, said he must consider dropping about 70 classes from the 170 or so he planned to offer in the upcoming school year if the college receives less funding.

The school’s administration caught wind of Retzlaff’s hospitalization and was worried about the well-being of the protesters, university spokesman Jonathan Morales said Tuesday.

“The president’s very concerned for their health,” Morales said. “He’s willing to sit down and discuss how to move forward toward a resolution.”

Morales said that ethnic studies is the only college running a large deficit each year. San Francisco State President Les Wong has asked the college, which has about 1,300 full-time equivalent students, to live within its budget. The ethnic studies department racked up $244,000 in overspending last academic year and $233,000 the year before. The school was using emergency funds to cover the budget deficit for the current academic year and next year but may stop covering the deficit after that.

A GoFundMe page created last week to help fund the strike has earned more than $1,000 in contributions as of Monday.

Jenna Lyons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jlyons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JennaJourno