Sonoma State University is getting a 45-million-dollar infusion from the state of California.
Lawmakers and campus officials announced the funding lifeline on Tuesday. It will support new programs and the restoration of at least some academic tracks, faculty jobs and intercollegiate sports. Several programs at SSU have been slated to end due to an unprecedented 24 million dollars in cuts announced in January.
Eight million dollars of this new one-time funding announced for Sonoma State University will support intercollegiate athletics.
The funding will be spread out during the next three years but it might be happening too late. Most of SSU’s 200-plus student-athletes have already transferred out, several coaches have left for other jobs and teams have donated their equipment. And, the contracts of coaches that haven’t already left expire on Monday.