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How Sonoma State’s leadership communicated the 2025 budget crisis — and how those messages were interpreted across campus
When Sonoma State University announced major budget cuts in early 2025, the message was intended to be clear and unified. But across campus, faculty and staff experienced and interpreted that communication in very different ways. This project investigates how the crisis was communicated by leadership and how it was understood on the ground, drawing on interviews from multiple departments to explore questions of transparency, trust, and shared governance.
Produced as part of COMS 402: Senior Seminar,
Sonoma State University
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