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Sonoma State program cuts and layoffs draw students, faculty to testify before Assembly subcommittee
Summary
Assembly hearing highlighted the local consequences of statewide higher-education budget pressure: Sonoma State faces program suspensions, course cuts and possible layoffs; faculty, students and staff testified about enrollment impacts and community consequences.
Chancellor Mildred Garcia of the California State University used Sonoma State as an example of how systemwide reductions have begun to affect campuses.
"The recently announced yet necessary and extremely painful cost reduction measures at Sonoma State are an anonymous indication of future impacts across the system," Garcia told the subcommittee, urging support to avoid more program suspensions and course reductions.
Members of the public, faculty and students described immediate consequences at Sonoma State University and urged the Legislature to reject large cuts to the CSU. Testimony from campus faculty and graduate students described program eliminations, declines in…
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