Awards

The Child Care Access Means Parents In School (CCAMPIS) grant enables Pell eligible students at Sonoma State University, who need early education services at the Children’s School, to successfully stay in school, and complete their degrees. By expanding program operations at the Children’s School of Sonoma State University (CSSSU) to a year round basis, students will be able to access coursework they need to pursue accelerated graduation.

The State Office of Historic Preservation has designated the Northwest Information Center (NWIC) as one of nine Information Centers located throughout the state. The East Bay Regional Park District is a system of parklands and trails in Alameda and Contra Costa counties to the east of San Francisco, totaling over 125,000 acres. This agreement delivers cultural resource data in digital packages on a semi-annual schedule over a three-year period to the East Bay Regional Park District.

In an effort to create a safer campus environment that will allow all community members to thrive, SSU will increase awareness of issues, policies, protocols, & supportive resources related to sexual assault, dating or domestic violence, sexual harassment, stalking.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will collaborate with ESA Inc. and CA State Parks to conduct an archaeological and tribal cultural resources inventory at China Camp State Park, in Marin County, and to develop a model for understanding climate effects to significant resources. Climate modeling includes identifying areas likely to be disturbed or destroyed by rising sea levels, tidal action, and erosion due to changes in vegetation patterns, infrastructural projects, and public access.

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. 

In support of SSU's commitment and goal to serve underrepresented and underserved student populations, TRIO SSS-Multilingual Achievers Program provides individualized academic and personal support to first-generation, low-income multilingual students and multilingual students with disabilities to support their success at SSU and beyond.   

BCAIP will bring together content area and bilingual authorization preservice teachers, their mentors, content method and language/literacy university educators, and families in solidarity to strengthen teacher preparation for emergent bilingual learning through coursework, field experience, culturally and linguistically sustaining mentorship, and a language and literacies learning lab that all integrate biliteracy with content area learning.

SSU’s TRIO Academic Talent Search programs motivate, inform, and assist 1,500  low-income, first-generation college-bound students in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties to access and succeed in a college of their choice. Students from grades 7-12 engage in workshops, college visits, and advising. Seniors receive financial aid and college application assistance.  With a focus on community access to higher education and college readiness, ATS advances SSU’s achievement of retention and graduation goals for GI2025.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct an archaeological resources study for the Sugarloaf Trail, Nevada County, California. Nevada City and Bear Yuba Land Trust propose constructing a pedestrian trail linking Nevada City with Sugarloaf Mountain. A portion of the trail crosses Caltrans right-of-way. Accordingly, the undertaking must adhere to federal regulations.

This work combined with work along the northern California coast in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties will provide a scientific basis for evaluating the efficacy of large-scale purple urchin removal and kelp outplanting as a kelp restoration tool in the Northern California/Southern Oregon marine ecoregion, directly informing future management actions to protect this iconic underwater forests in the face of changing ocean conditions.