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As part of a pathways program, 122 high school students from Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties and the East Bay are dual enrolled in an SSU education class this spring.

Shelton Mercer III, an award-winning entrepreneur, innovation pioneer, and humanitarian, was the featured speaker for “Conversations with Black and Brown in Blue: Transforming AI through Authentic Ingenuity” Monday, February 10 in Sonoma State’s Student Center.

Gayle and Arnie Carston gave a lifetime gift of $1 million to the Sonoma State University Foundation and the Green Music Center (GMC) in November. It’s a donation decades in the making.

Today, the California State University (CSU), the largest and most diverse public four-year university in the country, announced a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative with some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Adobe, Alphabet (Google), AWS, IBM, Instructure, Intel, LinkedI

Twenty-two SSU students learned firsthand about Japan’s legal system, history, and culture during a 12-day study-abroad program led by Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies professors Diana Grant and Bryan Burton.

”Land, Sky, and Sea: A Tapestry of Perspectives,” a group exhibition opening Feb. 6 in the University Gallery, features the work of SSU alumna Catherine Daley ‘13 and two other Sonoma County artists, Adrian Mendoza and Bambi Waterman.

The 2025 SSU/Redwood Empire Jazz Festival, a free competitive, educational event for middle school, high school, and junior college jazz bands and combos, will take place February 14 in Green Music Center.

Sonoma State University today announced that it will lay off faculty, eliminate several academic departments and degree majors, and discontinue its intercollegiate athletics program in order to address a projected $23.9-million budget deficit in 2025-26.

Alumna Allyssa Concepcion’s heart was set on going to a SoCal college, but her father, Jim Perez ‘84, convinced her to look at Sonoma State.