Due to potential COVID-19 exposure in University Housing, 36 on-campus students were ordered to quarantine-in-place since Oct. 29. This is the highest number of new quarantine-in-place residents since Friday, Oct. 16, bringing the total number of students quarantined-in-place to 131. The university performed 1,237 COVID-19 tests since Oct. 29, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard […]
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Record number of Cal Poly students enter quarantine, county case rate remains constant
Cal Poly saw a record of on-campus residents enter quarantine this week. On Oct. 28 alone, 28 students were told to quarantine, the highest single-day increase on record, resulting in 31 total students quarantined.
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County reports highest number of new COVID-19 cases since August, 10 students test positive
San Luis Obispo County reported 49 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 28, according to County Public Health. This is the most new COVID-19 cases reported in one day since Aug. 29, when 61 new cases were reported.
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Amid COVID-19 budget cuts, university appoints administrator to a second position and pauses hiring search
Following a projected budget deficit of $35 million amid COVID-19-related losses, Cal Poly will appoint Interim Dean of the Orfalea College of Business (OCOB) Al Liddicoat to simultaneously serve in a second administrative position. Liddicoat will serve as Interim Executive Director for Human Resources and Academic Personnel, in addition to OCOB dean.
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Eleven students test positive for COVID-19, again
Two students living on-campus and nine students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 since Oct. 26, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 27. San Luis Obispo County reported 17 new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday afternoon, according to County Public Health. There are 154 active COVID-19 cases in the county. San Luis […]
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Ten on-campus residents released from COVID-19 isolation yesterday
This story was updated Oct. 28 with additional information about students recovered from COVID-19 and students isolated and quarantined on campus Ten students living on-campus who tested positive for COVID-19 have been released from isolation since Saturday, Oct. 24, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Monday afternoon, Oct. 26. Monday’s update includes data from […]
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English associate professor Chelsea Milbourne dies from a heart attack
English associate professor Chelsea Milbourne died after a sudden heart attack last week. Milbourne is survived by her husband, Jeff, and their three-year-old daughter Eleanor, according to a campus-wide email. Milbourne was brought to Cal Poly in 2014 to lead the Technical and Professional Communication Program within the English Deparment, College of Liberal Arts Dean […]
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County COVID-19 case rates rise
This week, Cal Poly saw eight on-campus and 15 off-campus students test positive for coronavirus, after 10 on-campus and 43 off-campus tested positive last week, according to the Cal Poly coronavirus website. There are currently 24 on-campus students in isolation, up eight from last week. Cal Poly recently began recording ‘quarantine in place’ data, which […]
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Why a Cal Poly dance club removed the term “urban” from its name
The former Cal Poly dance club “Urban Movement” changed its name to “United in Movement” this September.
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No new COVID-19 cases reported for University Housing residents in 24 hours
No students living on campus have tested positive for COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, according to the university’s coronavirus dashboard updated Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 14. Two students living off-campus have tested positive for the virus in the last 24 hours. The students were tested by Campus Health and Wellbeing or Avellino Labs, Cal Poly’s […]
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University performs over 1,000 COVID-19 tests in one day
The university’s ongoing COVID-19 testing program has performed 940 tests in the last 24 hours. Campus Health and Wellbeing has performed 244 COVID-19 tests in the last 24 hours. A total of 1,184 COVID-19 tests were performed on-campus on Tuesday. One student living on-campus and three students living off-campus tested positive for COVID-19 in the […]