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SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY
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Sonoma State University was established by the California State Legislature in
1960 as Sonoma State College. The College opened in temporary quarters in Rohnert
Park the fall of 1961 under the leadership of founding president Ambrose R. Nichols,
Jr., with an enrollment of 265 upper-division students. Most of the faculty and
administrators of the Santa Rosa Center of San Francisco State College, which had
served the region since 1956, joined the new College. The Center's programs in
elementary education, psychology, and counseling formed the principal course offerings.
The College has grown steadily in its first three decades, developing academic
programs based in the traditional liberal arts and sciences as well as career and
professional programs, and emphasizing close student-faculty interaction. The College
moved to its present 220 acre site in 1966, upon completion of Stevenson and Darwin
Halls. Excellent new facilities have been constructed and extensive landscaping has
been accomplished, creating at Sonoma State one of the most attractive, modern, and
well-equipped campuses in the State. In 1978 university status was granted and the
name was changed to Sonoma State University.
The University now enrolls over 7,400 students and offers 37 bachelor's degrees,
master's degrees, and 10 teaching, specialist, and service credentials.
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