Awards

Leveraging available research, improve the recruitment, retention, health, and effectiveness of Professional Academic Advisors (PAAs) and support-staff, including student-assistants, through three wellness initiatives which are sustainable and on-going (i.e., funded for at least five years) and are focused on the holistic wellness and life/work-balance of our academic advising teams. Initiative 1: Creating a Wellness Den, Initiative 2: develop an online training module, Initiative 3: Employee of the Year Award.

Professors Don Romesburg and Steve Estes, in collaboration with two SSU students through a special studies (WGS/HIST 495) course in Fall 2022, will conduct, transcript, and archive a series of 6-8 oral histories related to the historic preservation of the longtime San Francisco house of lesbian icons and heroes Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon. Martin and Lyon founded the first US lesbian political organization in the 1950s and after a life of activism went on to become the first same-sex couple to marry in California.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will undertake NHPA Section 106 evaluation and data recovery of the proposed Hotel Sebastopol project. The scope of work includes ground-penetrating radar survey, National Register of Historic Places evaluation and determination of eligibility, assessment of effects and mitigation measures for all affected cultural resources. The site is the location of Chinese- and Japanese-American settlement in Sebastopol from the 1870s through the 1940s.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct a cultural resources survey of Calabazas Creek Regional Park. The cultural resources study will update the initial MND and is being prepared to support an IS/MND, Master Plan, and Resource Management Plan. Sonoma County Regional Parks is serving as the lead agency and the final cultural resources study report will address the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended.

To meet the increasing demand for bilingual teachers in California public schools, NVUSD and SRCS, in partnership with SSU's School of Education, will expand the existing NBTR Consortium to include multiple- and multiple plus single-subject credentials (both w/added bilingual authorization) to support the growth of dual language TK-8 programs in both districts.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct a cultural resources survey and inventory report for the East Bay Regional Park District’s Robertson Land Bank Trails Project. ASC will do three tasks to complete the project including: Background Research, Archaeological Field Survey and Recordation and Archaeological Resource Documentation and Archaeological Survey Report.

The Family Nurse Practitioner Program at SSU offers a Master of Science as well as a Post Masters Certificate Program with a full and part-time option.  The mission of our program is to serve the underserved populations in Northern California. With the help of grant funding we are able to provide an opportunity for Advance Practice Nurses in rural areas to become nurse practitioners while staying in their community to provide the care to those patients in need.

To meet the increasing demand for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) teachers in California public schools, Petaluma City Schools (PCS) and Santa Rosa City Schools (SRCS), in partnership with Sonoma State University's (SSU) School of Education (SOE) will develop a collaborative partnership, called the North Bay STEM Teacher Residency Program (NBSTEM).

The California Mathematics Project: North Coast (CMP:NC) is one of 19 sites of a statewide network of University-based professional learning providers.  As a collaboration between SSU's Department of Mathematics and Statistics and School of Education and the Sonoma County Office of Education, CMP:NC has provided extended, multi-year professional learning opportunities to K-12 mathematics teachers from Marin County to the Oregon border since its founding in 1999.

To support signature events of the Green Music Center’s 10th Anniversary season in 2022-2023. These signature events will be performances and educational activities by Angélique Kidjo, Aída Cuevas, and Clear Creek Creative (in conjunction with their site-specific theater piece Ezell). The performances will be complemented by lectures, workshops, and other off-stage educational activities aimed at connecting the communities we serve with the featured artists, with a special focus on engaging students from kindergarten through university.