Sonoma State University Commitment to Diversity in Question: No Increase in Minority Comfort Levels over the Past Five Years

By: Tanya Trimble, Brittney Gorman, Katrina Waldschmidt, Stevie Campagno, Lyndsay Tedrow, Jovani Carrillo, Jackie Sanchez, and Tania Sanchez (Investigative Sociology Research Group spring 2013)
Sonoma State is notoriously one of the whitest college campuses in California, in fact on Sonoma State’s website a student ethnicity profile was created and summarized from a CSU statistical abstract in [...]

Sandy Weill, Change Maker!

By Susan Lamont
I attended the recent Sonoma County economic “change makers” conference at the Green Music Center (GMC) February 27 at Sonoma State University. This is not the sort of event I normally attend, but I couldn’t understand how Sandy Weill, someone who has had a negative effect on our national economy, could address [...]

Professor as Merchant

This is from Noel Byrne, in Sociology—1996—Exchange with Mario Savio
Recently I have heard students and staff frame critiques of the university and faulty in terms that refer to students as “customers” (an interesting notion, in light of the fact that these [...]

SSU and The Corporatization of Public Universities

By Shepherd Bliss
The new Center for Ethics, Law, and Society at Sonoma State University in Northern California has caused quite a stir among our academic community during the first week of classes, as well as from those outside SSU. Its funding and the further corporatization of public higher education have been questioned.
The notorious insurance monolith [...]