Less than a year before his death this May, William Matson Roth was thinking of Sonoma State University and the nature preserve that he and his family's philanthropy had created in the hills above the campus.
SSU will add the sport of women's track & field for the 2014-15 academic year as the 14th intercollegiate sport offered on campus. The program will compete next spring and participate in the CCAA Track & Field Championships.
Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Wine Spectator magazine, is making a $3 million gift to SSU to support construction of the new home for SSU's Wine Business Institute to be named the Wine Spectator Learning Center.
OLLI Celebrates "Place" in Sonoma CountyThis summer, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at SSU has been exploring "place" in Sonoma County through its art, history, landscape, food and wine as curators, writers, vintners, naturalists, scholars, artists, chefs and historians led talks and tours both on the SSU campus and in the surrounding communities.
Grand Weekend Staged for Opening of 250-Seat Schroeder Hall at Green Music CenterThe much-anticipated opening of Schroeder Hall at the Green Music Center at Sonoma State University has been announced with a grand weekend of events in late August.
