Once you make donations this month everywhere they’re needed — which is so many places — if you have a few additional dollars to give, please consider Harvest International, CPP’s student-run literary arts community. Donations support our publications, events & more:
crowdfund.cpp.edu/project/47927
Incredible resource here
UPDATE: Roomies secured. Thanks, all!
It feels unhinged to be working on conference travel rn, but: Cs friends! Who needs a conference roomie or two or five? Can I be one of 'em? I maybe snore but am fairly neat and quiet otherwise 😁
hey, cis folks who followed for call scripts!
this is good. communities standing together can help protect trans kids—it’s terrifying for single teachers to stand alone.
there’s a doc in shay’s link. copy the alt text—whatever. it’ll take so little time. resisting compliance is actual resistance.
Thank you for your work!
Late to this party, but the @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social ep of Everyone’s Writing with AI (Except Me!) should be required listening for higher ed. I learned so much (here and in all of them! kudos, @rcmeg.bsky.social and Maggie Fernandes!)
open.spotify.com/episode/3Ygy...
As someone who writes and thinks about air quality all the time, I wanted to answer some questions I'm getting and talk about what steps I'm taking, not necessarily as a reporter, but as an LA mom trying to do the right thing
The University has had a budget deficit for several years. It is attributable to a variety of factors – cost of personnel, price increases for supplies and utilities, inflation – but the main reason is declining enrollment. Student tuition and fees, combined with enrollment-based funding from The California State University, are the major sources of revenue in the university budget. Sonoma State’s enrollment has dropped 38% since its peak in 2015. Remember that to close budget gaps, over the past two years the university has employed a variety of methods – including voluntary employee separations, strategic personnel reductions, academic and operational streamlining, shared services, hiring freezes, and prudent use of reserves. Unfortunately, the actions taken so far, difficult though they have been, are not enough. Further steps must be taken to
fully close the budget gap and ensure Sonoma State’s financial capacity to best serve its current and future students and adapt to a changing higher education landscape. The financial options have now narrowed to a small set of actions – elimination of programs and departments, non-renewal of faculty contracts (both tenured and adjunct), and more layoffs of staff and administration. Consequently, today, approximately 46 university faculty – both tenured and adjunct – will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. Additional lecturers will receive notice that no work will be available in fall 2025. Four management positions and 12 staff positions also will be eliminated. Additionally, several academic departments and programs will be combined, downsized, and/or eliminated as follows:
Programs identified for elimination: Administrative Services Credential in ELSE; Art History BA; Art Studio BFA; Dance BA; Earth and Environmental Sciences BA; Economics BA; Education Leadership MA; English MA; French BA; Geology BS; German Minor; Global Studies BA; History MA; Interdisciplinary Studies BA; Interdisciplinary Studies MA; Philosophy BA; Physical Science BA; Physics BA; Physics BS; Public Administration MPA; Spanish MA; Theatre Arts BA; Women and Gender Studies BA. ● Departments identified for closure: Art History; Economics; Geology; Philosophy; Theater/Dance; Women and Gender Studies. ● Program mergers: Ethnic Studies (current departments of American Multicultural Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, and Native American Studies) will be
Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences
Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.
a very cute brown and tan dog on a couch
I’ve been off Twitter for a long time and barely missed it, but it’s good to see you again, winged friends. Here’s a napping Jeppson to de-escalate your feed
