Incoming freshman, transfer students and other continuing students now have dining options with meal credits and declining balance funds.
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Pi Kappa Phi member cycles across America
Pi Kappa Phi member and physics sophomore Jacob Sniderman is helping cycle a combined 12,000 miles over 60 days to spread a message of acceptance and understanding for people with disabilities in The Journey of Hope. Sniderman will be joining 99 of his brothers from different chapters throughout the United States. The participants are riding […]
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Fox News incorrectly reports Cal Poly slashing white enrollment and factoring race into admissions
Fox & Friends aired a live segment Thursday morning incorrectly stating that Cal Poly is “deliberately slashing the number of white students” and “moving towards a race-based admissions process.” It was also falsely stated that Cal Poly’s goal is “to limit the number of white students to 40 percent of the campus population” while Fox […]
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Rate of administrative hires decreases, but tenure track faculty still down from pre-recession levels
Ten new administrative positions were created and filled last year — a decrease in the growth of administrators on Cal Poly’s campus. Administrative hires have outpaced hires for tenured and tenure track faculty since 2007. Tenure track faculty have not recovered from the 2008 state furlough in terms of full-time equivalent employees. Tenure track faculty are typically either […]
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Why Cal Poly is not affected by Trump rescinding affirmative action guidelines
These guidelines were largely seen as a push to diversify higher education.
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$150,000 to aid Cal Poly student housing costs given from family of architecture alum
A survey of Cal Poly students found 12.3 percent of students to be homeless.
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Students travel to Rwanda, create VR galaxies and more for senior projects
While the senior project is a mandatory capstone of a Cal Poly degree, there is a lot of versatility in what can be considered a senior project. Presentations, research papers and experiments are all fair game, but so are building designs in Rwanda and film festivals downtown. Here’s a spotlight on four graduating seniors who […]
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SLO Peace Coalition in the clear
Members of the SLO Peace Coalition were reviewed and found not in violation of student conduct by the Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities for their short anti-war demonstration.
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Cal Poly will continue to pay for club speaker security; Academic Senate voices concerns
Cal Poly’s speaker security spending policy remains unchanged after the university spent $140,000 over the past two years on security for controversial speaker Milo Yiannopoulos’ two visits. The resolution was discussed in the final meeting of the year until the senate ran out of time June 5. Administration will continue to revise the security spending […]
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Blackface to today: How Cal Poly got here
Look back at the spring quarter events that changed Cal Poly’s campus climate.
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Grad attempts to make “impromptu speech” during Spring Commencement
Animal science graduate Lukas Robertson attempted to make an “impromptu speech” during the College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences and College of Science and Mathematics commencement ceremony June 16. Robertson got on stage just after Associated Students, Inc. President Riley Nilsen addressed 1,500 graduates in Alex G. Spanos Stadium. Vice President of Student Affairs Keith Humphrey, President Jeffrey Armstrong and Dean […]