CAMPAIGNS

What is happening? 

In 2024 CSU management hired high-priced consultants to put together a systemwide strategic plan. We know that CSU management continues their decades of budget mismanagement and misuse of funds while claiming a tuition increase is necessary for their financial sustainability. Repeatedly there’s never any money to fairly compensate faculty and staff for their tireless dedication to student success and always a made-up budget hole to justify unfair costs to students. 

In a move that will devastate student recruitment, retention, learning, and success, Sonoma State management announced early in January 2025 deep cuts to faculty, staff, and instructional and support programs. This is now a rippling effect across campuses in the Cal state system.  

The proposed cuts, department and program eliminations, and faculty job loss are not inevitable. Chancellor Garcia and the Board of Trustees can reverse these changes and demonstrate leadership that privileges students, instruction, academic and educational integrity. 

We will not stand by and watch entire campuses, and its academic and educational mission left unrecognizable. Faculty, students and staff are joining forces to fight back. Cutting courses and programs is a direct attack on student success by increasing class sizes, expanding faculty workload, and reducing support programs that help student achieve, particularly first-generation and immigrant students, and those from marginalized communities. Students are paying more and getting less. 

We live with the consequences of their poor decision-making, and now is the time to communicate truth to power. 

Take Action to Stop Campus Layoffs

Tell the CSU Administration: Hands off Students!