Cal Poly offers hybrid courses

Statistics professor Beth Chance is learning how to redesign a class. She began teaching a hybrid STAT 217 course last spring; this quarter she is learning what she might change as a teacher.

Orfalea College of Business looks to bolster reputation

The Orfalea College of Business is looking to hire the public relations firm Dan Klores Communications (DKC) to help build its reputation. The business school will join a client list that includes Ashlee Simpson, Microsoft and J. Crew.

Rossman does the math

In the math world, Allan Rossman is the teaching equivalent of Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps or Michelle Kwan — a gold medalist. He is one of three mathematicians in the U.S. to receive the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award in January.