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Record number of high schoolers enroll in SSU Education class

As part of a pathways program, 122 high school students from Sonoma, Marin, and Mendocino counties and the East Bay are dual enrolled in an SSU education class this spring.

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SSU gains research designation

Sonoma State University joined more than half of the 23 California State University campuses in receiving a new Carnegie designation known as “Research Colleges and Universities” or “RCU,”

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'Transforming AI' speaker Mercer at Sonoma State February 10

Shelton Mercer III, an award-winning entrepreneur, innovation pioneer, and humanitarian, was the featured speaker for “Conversations with Black and Brown in Blue: Transforming AI through Authentic Ingenuity” Monday, February 10 in Sonoma State’s Student Center.

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Carston family gifts $1 Million to SSU Foundation and Green Music Center

Gayle and Arnie Carston gave a lifetime gift of $1 million to the Sonoma State University Foundation and the Green Music Center (GMC) in November. It’s a donation decades in the making. 

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CSU announces landmark public-private initiative that will make it the nation’s first and largest AI-powered university system

Today, the California State University (CSU), the largest and most diverse public four-year university in the country, announced a first-of-its-kind public-private initiative with some of the world’s leading tech companies, including Adobe, Alphabet (Google), AWS, IBM, Instructure, Intel, LinkedI

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Study abroad in Japan offers life-changing experience for students

Twenty-two SSU students learned firsthand about Japan’s legal system, history, and culture during a 12-day study-abroad program led by Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies professors Diana Grant and Bryan Burton.

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'Land, Sky, and Sea: A Tapestry of Perspectives' opens February 6 at University Art Gallery

”Land, Sky, and Sea: A Tapestry of Perspectives,” a group exhibition opening Feb. 6 in the University Gallery, features the work of SSU alumna Catherine Daley ‘13 and two other Sonoma County artists, Adrian Mendoza and Bambi Waterman.

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2025 SSU Redwood Empire Jazz Festival at Green Music Center Feb. 14

The 2025 SSU/Redwood Empire Jazz Festival, a free competitive, educational event for middle school, high school, and junior college jazz bands and combos, will take place February 14 in Green Music Center. 

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SSU takes major steps to address $23.9-million deficit in 2025-26

Sonoma State University today announced that it will lay off faculty, eliminate several academic departments and degree majors, and discontinue its intercollegiate athletics program in order to address a projected $23.9-million budget deficit in 2025-26. 

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SSU alumna and Google recruiter shares career building tips

Alumna Allyssa Concepcion’s heart was set on going to a SoCal college, but her father, Jim Perez ‘84, convinced her to look at Sonoma State.