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Have you dropped off your ballot in one of the official ballot boxes on campus? You can follow its progress with California’s official “Where’s My Ballot?” tracker. Sign up for updates by text, email, or phone call to find out when your ballot is on its way, when Sonoma County receives it, and whether it has been accepted. My Voter Status link: https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/
The SSU Campus Vote Center is open! The Casentino Room in Tuscany Village is located at 1801 E. Cotati Avenue in Rohnert Park. The Vote Center is open October 31 through November 2 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, it will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Have you filled out your ballot yet? There are two official ballot boxes on campus available for drop off 24 hours a day, from October 5 to November 2, and until 8 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, November 3. Students and other community members can drop off their completed ballots at either box.
People often say teaching is a calling. If you ask the graduates of Sonoma State’s 2026 Multiple Subject Credential Program whether answering that call was easy, many would probably laugh before answering.
Education is not the filling of a pot but the lighting of a fire.
-W.B. Yeats
In April, 2026, SSU celebrated its 16th year of formal activities for Disability Awareness Month on campus with various engaging events promoting awareness, inclusion and accessibility that highlighted DSS students. In this year’s events, Disability Services for Students (DSS) had panelists including one led by Neurodiverse students, where the theme was aptly titled "Nothing About Us Without Us" which has been a common rallying term amid of the disability rights movement for decades – and still remains a powerful call to action of the work yet to be done in advocating for disability rights.
Sonoma State University hosted Discovery Day — a fun day where high schoolers could check out SSU and start dreaming about college. This year, the senior class from Roseland Collegiate Prep (RCP), participated in both their college-prep program and the CCE's Service-Learning program. As many schools in the county are shutting down this year, they're among the last graduating classes from RCP.
This year’s fair took place on August 27th, in the main quad. Students at Sonoma State had the opportunity to meet with over 50 employers, both private and public. Businesses and nonprofits, seeking to fill part-time jobs and internships participated. Proactively, a diverse range of organizations that would best fit any student, regardless of major or minor, were at the event. The part-time job, service and internship fair was a joint event between the career center and CCE (Center for Community Engagement) to help students find either part-time work to help with the expenses of college life or opportunities to build job experience with different volunteer positions or internships.
An Inside Look at College Life for Future Scholars
This spring, students at Sonoma State University had the opportunity to step outside the classroom and into meaningful dialogue with local high school students as part of the College Conversations Project, a service-learning collaboration between SSU and Rancho Cotate High School (RCHS).
After almost a decade of declining enrollment rates, Sonoma State University is preparing for significant budget cuts as part of a larger financial restructuring within the California State University system.