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Today is 9/11, a National Day of Service and Remembrance
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A Bit About NewsBytes

NewsBytes is the electronic employee newsletter, sent to all SSU faculty and staff each Friday. All employees are encouraged to contribute to any of the sections within NewsBytes, which include:

• About Faculty and Staff: Submit short articles highlighting professional activities - ex: a recently published book, an invitation to speak at a conference, research developments, or other academic-related activities
• Applause Awards: Nominate other employees who have gone beyond the call of duty, via the Applause Award Program
• In Memoriam: Commemorating individuals from the campus community who have passed on
• Retirements: Announcements about retiring employees, retirement parties, etc.
• Student Excellence: Recognizing exemplary achievement by SSU students or alumni
• Training: Devoted to employee workshops, seminars or training opportunities
• Workplace: For articles pertaining to employee and workplace issues, notifications and announcements

Stories should be no longer than 250 words, should not be written in the first person, and are subject to editing by NewsBytes staff upon submission. Pictures are greatly appreciated. All entries should be sent to newsbytes@sonoma.edu by Monday at noon for inclusion in the following week's edition of NewsBytes. To nominate someone for an Applause Award, visit the Applause Award website.

Picture of the Week: A Football Season of Yesteryear

SSU Football

Spectators flocked to the SSU football field to watch the then-Cossacks compete in this undated photo from the University archive. According to Bill Fusco, director of athletics, SSU dropped football after the 1996 season, due to escalating expenses and stricter enforcement of Title IX in California.

Do you have an image that you think could be photo of the week? Send it to NewsBytes. Photos should be campus-relevant with a small caption. (Please do not send images to which you do not hold the copyright.)

CIRP DataCIRP Data Now Available

Each year, incoming freshmen at SSU take a national survey called the Cooperative Institutional Research Project (CIRP) from the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA. The survey asks for reasons why they decided to go to college and specifically to SSU, academic engagement in high school, attitudes toward political and social engagement and toward diversity, and life aspirations. A report on trends from 1993 - 2007 is available on the Institutional Research website, under "Institutional Research, Annual Reports" on the left side (this requires an LDAP username and password). Open the 2009-2010 folder to access the CIRP trends report.

Francisco VasquezFrancisco H. Vásquez Receives Connie Codding Humanist Award

The organization "Listening for a Change" has awarded Francisco H. Vázquez, Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, the Connie Codding Humanist Award for "his many years as a teacher, a scholar, a community activist, and someone who helps give voice to the voiceless." Vázquez received the award at the "Sunset Soiree" event, held at the Michel-Schlumberger Wine Estate on Sat., August 29.

Latino/a Thought"Listening for a Change" is based out of Santa Rosa and, according to the organization's website, promotes understanding and acceptance of human diversity through education, oral history, and the arts. The second edition of Vázquez's book, "Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society," was released by Rowman and Littlefield in January of this year. For more information or to order a copy of the book, visit the Rowman and Littlefield website.

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