According to state regulations, these administrator salary increases violated state law as they were not supported by merit-based evaluations.
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How high tech industry salaries affect computer science department
While Cal Poly mandates that students choose their major before coming to school to give them a head start, that system hasn’t benefited computer science senior Darryl Vo. In order to get classes in the computer science department, crashing was the only option. “The current system just relies too much on crashing,” Vo said. “You […]
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Cal Poly Graduation Initiative Team proposes plan to increase four-year graduation rates
The team’s goals are: improving support, removing graduation barriers, improving campus community, eliminating achievement gaps and using data in administration.
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CSU Audit shows unjustified wages and hirings in administration
A new California State University (CSU) audit shows Cal Poly disproportionately increased the number of administrators and their wages compared to faculty without justification. Eighty-three administrators and management personnel were hired in the past eight years without adequate justification, according to the audit. While the purpose of hiring more personnel was clear — to improve […]
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Graduation rates continue to increase
Cal Poly’s four-year graduation rate increased during the past 20 years to 47 percent, making it the highest in the college’s history, according to the digital archives and the Cal Poly Fact Book. Five-year graduation rates also increased by 40 percent to 77.1 percent and six-year graduation rates increased from 58.5 percent to 82.6 percent. […]
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Cal Poly Digital Democracy project holds government officials accountable
Digital Democracy, a Cal Poly-based open government project, begins its second legislative session with new tools and a third state to serve. The project’s employees take videos of hearings and committees posted by the state government and automatically generate a searchable transcript, which students manually check for accuracy. Anyone can search by bill, representative name […]
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Tenure density continues to decrease as state funding drops
Many Cal Poly professors are leaders in their fields. They are developing technology used by Boeing, finding planets that defy gravitational laws and creating open government databases to bring state government back to the people. They carry out these projects with students, offering them chances to put their education to use; they guide senior projects […]
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Otto-Mated: Students create exhibition in German museum
Deutsches Museum in Germany is 66,000 square meters and contains 28,000 exhibited items. A team of four Cal Poly mechanical engineering seniors is adding one more item to that list for the museum’s 1.5 million yearly visitors to see — a prototype of the world’s first commercially successful internal combustion engine. The team — Lance […]
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Boeing uses Cal Poly aerospace sensory project in flight tests
The project is entirely student-driven.
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Cal Poly’s tenured track faculty at all time low
Cal Poly’s tenured density is the lowest it has been in the past 10 years.
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New university position will bring diversity issues directly to Armstrong
Cal Poly is currently searching for a vice president and chief officer for diversity and inclusion