Awards

This Chancellor's Office funding is to support the implementation of SB24 at the Student Health Center starting January 2023. The funds from this award are provided to assist in the establishment of the necessary infrastructure within CSU Student Health Centers to provide for the implementation of medication abortion as an ongoing service offered to students within the Student Health Centers.

The Arts Impact Grant for Organizations (AIGO) funding will support the Green Music Center as it celebrates its 10^th anniversary in 2022, presenting a diverse array of the most compelling artists of our time who will engage audiences on and off our stages. Using our platform to work toward cultural equity, programming will contribute to the well being of our communities and will help build empathy in our multicultural world.

PI will participate in Network Improvement Community (NIC), a community of thought partners, comprised of Chief Business Officers, and their institutional teams, who agree to work towards the development of new strategic financial planning models that can be leveraged or used by almost all higher education institutions. The NIC exists to:

Research into first-year writing equity gaps lacks attention to student and advisor perspectives. This project seeks to address this gap by surveying and interviewing Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students and advisors from the Student Disability Services office at Sonoma State University, a mid-sized, regional, Hispanic-serving institution in northern California.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct Archaeological Monitoring and subcontract Tribal Cultural Monitoring as part of an on-call three year contract with the Northern Service Center (NSC) of the CA Department of State Parks and Recreation. Monitoring will occur at areas with high sensitivity for buried prehistoric or historic resources, and other designated locations, within the area of operations/jurisdiction of the NSC, in California.

This one-time funding will provide stipends to MESA students and partnering faculty at Sonoma State University. The stipends will support students and faculty in the MESA Honors Program, MESA Mentorship Program and the MESA Summer Research Program.

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 PK-12 mathematics teachers from Marin County to the Oregon border since its founding in 1999.

Sonoma State University will conduct the Campus Sexual Assault (CT) Program for a third year, that offers survivors of sexual violence comprehensive and coordinated services that are survivor/victim-centered, enhances campus safety, provides confidential services to survivors/victims of sexual assault, and includes comprehensive outreach activities that educates and informs all students, staff, and faculty of campus policies and resources regarding sexual assault/ misconduct and increases student awareness, with a focus on underrepresented populations.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct cultural resources study for the Empire Mine State Historic Park environmental restoration project, Grass Valley, Nevada County, California. California Department of Parks and Recreation are overseeing environmental restoration projects at Empire Mine State Historic Park. As a state park, the project must adhere to state regulations.

The next step in the Cinematic Arts & Technology comprehensive degree program is completion of a cutting-edge Media Innovation Lab (MIL) that will prepare students for fruitful careers in production or "below the line" professions. SSU has already made a considerable investment to support the Cinematic Arts degree, spending more than $1 million to develop the space for the MIL in Salazar Hall.