Awards

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.

Terrestrial restoration has a long tradition of engaging the general public on issues relating to ecosystem decline, to the point where large swaths of the community can participate in restoration, e.g., Arbor Day planting millions of trees worldwide. To date, marine restoration, is primarily carried out through professional scientists and resource managers with very little involvement from the lay community.

This grant will fund an extension of Tinker Academy, which is a free two-week STEM summer academy for middle-school students that is a collaboration among the Career Technical Education Foundation, the Sonoma State School of Science and Technology, and the SSU Library. Tinker Academy teaches STEM skills through maker activities, including coding, robotics, sewing, 3-D modeling, and crafting. Participants are provided free lunch and materials.

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This project will assess the effectiveness of forest health treatments for coastal California forests and identify agency characteristics that influence scaling to landscape levels. This work seeks to identify cost-benefit tradeoffs of competing forest health treatments, determine the threat posed by biologically-driven fuels accumulation, assess effectiveness of a set of contrasting forest treatments aimed at controlling fuels and mitigating disease impacts, and identify agency capacity to apply treatments at scale.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct and report on historic archeological research and field investigations on those portions of the Fort Barry Rifle Ranch (FBRR) to be affected by the removal of lead bearing soils by the Army Corps of Engineer. ASC will discuss findings and recommendations for any necessary mitigation and treatment, both before and after lead remediation by Army Corps of Engineers.

The Anthropological Studies Center (ASC) will conduct various on-call archaeological monitoring and/or facilitate tribal cultural monitoring throughout the California Department of Parks and Recreation, Bay Area District. These projects and tasks include, but are not limited to, conducting archaeological testing, monitoring services, surveys, consulting, and providing various reports; locate, inventory and assemble database of District archaeological collections housed outside of the State Archaeological Collections Research Facility (SACRF); integrate data into Parks Cultural Resource