Awards

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will work closely with the staff of the Presidio Trust Archaeology Lab and conduct archaeological monitoring for the Presidio Tunnel Tops Project in San Francisco, CA.  The Presidio Trust and its contractors are constructing approximately 14 acres of new parkland to connect the Main Post to Crissy Field and there is potential for the inadvertent discovery of potentially significant archaeological materials during the construction excavation for the project.

With this grant, SSU plans to create a comprehensive coordinated community response that is victim ­centered, enhances victim safety, provides confidential services to sexual assault victims, holds offenders accountable, and includes outreach activities at institutions of higher education. Some of the initiatives that this grant will fund include the hiring of a second, full time Confidential Sexual Assault Victims' Advocate, the creation of a campus wide Sexual Misconduct/Assault Response Team, and personnel and resources to support a broad spectrum of outreach programs for the campus.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will supply an archaeologist to deliver an on-site tailgate training session to construction personnel prior to commencement of excavation work at the Belvedere Tiburon Library Expansion Project. ASC will also supply one archaeologist to perform monitoring functions at the site and to prepare a draft and final Archaeological Monitoring Report upon completion.

Through this cooperative agreement, the Northwest Information Center (NWIC) supports the fulfillment of the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) obligations by 1) gathering, managing, and providing access to the statewide inventory of historical resources within the NWIC’s 18 county region; 2) providing guidance in the use and interpretation of historical resources information: and 3) providing broad public education in support of cultural heritage preservation including internships and volunteer opportunities here at Sonoma State University. 

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will manage and research the archaeological collection at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MGAGCC), Twentynine Palms, CA. This will include accessioning the backlog of artifacts and reports, receiving and processing new artifacts and reports, managing and updating inventory database, facilitating and conducting research on the collection, and designing and assembling a full-room interpretive archaeological display.

To meet the need of the ever-increasing need for teachers in California public schools, particularly in the areas of bilingual education, special education, and STEM education, SSU has partnered with Napa Valley Unified School District (NVUSD) and Santa Rosa City Schools (SRCS) to prepare teacher candidates in the North Bay Teacher Residency Program (NBTRP).

The Scholarship America fund provides a one-time scholarship award of $379 to students who experienced financial hardship related to the California Wildfires in Fall 2019. The scholarship allows students to use this funding for tuition, fees, books, housing, and other education-related expenses. 

The Remote Girls Tinker Academy is a two-week program designed to engage and inspire middle school students through Maker principles to encourage the exploration and development of technical, mathematical, and artistic abilities. For Summer 2020, thirty middle school students from across Sonoma County have been selected by CTEF/CWISE to participate in this hands-on program to be taught remotely by SSU professor and student assistants. They will participate in a variety of activities including coding, modeling, crafting, sewing, and building.

This award contributes to the Seawolf Scholars Critical Needs Fund.  It provides emergency funds to foster youth students for needs such as food, shelter, and health care, as these are the largest barriers to foster youth completing a four-year college degree.  In doing so, it helps to eliminate external stress and burdens so students can focus on thriving in their education.

The purpose of project is to expand "making" across the State of California with four strategic components: supporting leadership activities and expanding the maker space(s) at SSU, convening a higher education maker leadership symposium bringing in makers from across the CSU and other two and four year colleges and universities to create a vision for making in higher education and to identify best practices, allocating resources for the creation of maker face to face course identifying higher education making spaces along with K-12 making spaces to be integrated into the Maker Certificate