The California State University board named Michael Spagna as Sonoma State’s permanent president, tasking him with stabilizing finances after enrollment fell more than 13% and the campus enacted deep cuts this year. Spagna takes office Jan. 20 and inherits a plan to boost enrollment and close a budget deficit that led to program eliminations and protests. At Montclair State University, administrators proposed consolidating 15 departments into four schools to foster interdisciplinarity — a restructuring that faculty warn could dilute department identities and provoke further governance conflict. Both moves reflect an enrollment-driven scramble to reshape academic portfolios and reduce costs.