The California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Office approved Cal Poly’s request to enact the Student Success Fee on March 16, ending months of planning and outreach over the tuition increase. Cal Poly President Jeffrey Armstrong announced the approval of the quarterly fee in a campus-wide email to students. On March 5, he submitted a fee […]
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Faculty union set to vote on strike
The California Faculty Association (CFA) will vote on whether to hold a system-wide strike next month, adding a new layer to more than a year of negotiations between the union and the California State University (CSU) system. If passed, the strike would last for two days at each of the 23 CSU campuses. Cal Poly […]
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Last call for information
With just one day left before the advisory vote on the proposed Student Success Fee, 20 students attended the last of the administration-sponsored open forums Tuesday. University Union Advisory Board member and agricultural business sophomore Jason Colombini was among those in the audience. Colombini was the lone attendee at a forum earlier in February and […]
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Fee forum failures spark new outreach efforts
Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) President Kiyana Tabrizi called the proposed Student Success Fee the most important tuition decision Cal Poly has ever faced. But students’ lack of interest might indicate disagreement. With only two open forums left for students to come and learn about the fee, attendance is as low as ever. Two students attended […]
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Sliding to Student Success
A slideshow highlighting the 01/23/2012 Student Success Fee Forum.
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Setting the price of student 'success'
Today marked the first of nine forums to address the looming Student Success Fee, a fee most students know little about. But it left students with more questions than answers. Think of this fee as Provost Robert Koob’s last goodbye — Koob is retiring and will be replaced by Kathleen Enz Finken in February. At […]
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Striking a deal
The California Faculty Association (CFA) executed a planned strike at California State University (CSU) Dominguez Hills and East Bay campuses Thursday. The protests, which began in the early morning and went into the night, came just one day after a 9 percent tuition increase voted on by the CSU Board of Trustees. The strike was […]