In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced deep cuts to faculty, staff, and instructional and support programs. This decimation of a CSU Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) is unconscionable and immoral in every way one might imagine it, especially in a CSU system with billions of dollars in reserves and investments that are supposed to be used to prevent the very actions taken by the Sonoma State University Administration, where an entire campus and its academic and educational mission are left unrecognizable.
We anticipate 130 faculty will lose work (including tenured faculty, lecturers, Coaches and Faculty Early Retirement Program faculty); the elimination of 23 academic programs and six departments, and another seven departments would be consolidated to three. All NCAA Division II athletics programs would be eliminated.
With these cuts, the Sonoma State Administration is cutting the faculty by over 25%. Layoffs are set for May for temporary faculty and July for faculty on the tenure track.