Cal Poly Society of Women’s Engineers (SWE) brought home its eighth Gold Award as the nation’s top Outstanding Collegiate Section at the Annual Conference for Women Engineers on Oct. 15. The annual Women’s Engineers Conference was held in Chicago from…
Faculty rally after strike announcement
Cal Poly members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) marched outside of the administration building Tuesday as part of a California-wide picket by the association. The picket followed a CFA vote Monday to organize a one-day strike on two California…
Back in bees-ness
Cal Poly would be a different place without honeybees: no more blueberries, raspberries, avocadoes or almonds, horticulture and crop science lecturer and instructor of beekeeping Scott Jeffreys said. This is a fate Cal Poly just recently avoided — narrowly. “We…
Social media can make or break job search
Students soon to enter the professional world can either help or hurt their chances of finding employment by implementing social media into their job search, according to Cal Poly career counselor Amie Hammond. Hammond said Jobvite, a recruiting platform for…
County sees slight drop in unemployment
San Luis Obispo County’s jobless rate is beginning to decrease, after reaching a yearly high in July, according to the latest preliminary data released by California’s Employment Development Department (EDD), which tracks and documents unemployment rates in California. In September, the…
Class sizes increase, writing practice decrease
English department budget cuts have led to a 400 percent increase in class size, and an almost 100 percent decrease in writing in some courses. Some English course sections have increased from 30 to 120 students, which makes formal writing…
Transfer credits ≠ Poly math classes
A new state law will make it easier for community college students to get into Cal Poly, but it could also weaken Cal Poly’s mathematics degrees. The five math classes in an associate’s degree would count for the same as…
Student tuition income pass state funding for first time
Twenty-five years ago, California higher education was designed to be virtually free for residents. The state paid for 90 percent of students’ education, and students had to pay only the remaining 10 percent. Today is a much different story. This…
It's the 'Alpocalypse': Weird Al brings funny back to the PAC
On a nationwide tour for his 13th studio album, “Weird Al” Yankovic, 52, wanted to do something special for the sold-out crowd at the Christopher A. Cohan Performing Arts Center (PAC) Wednesday, Nov. 2. “I don’t know how relevant these…
Going once, going twice: auction raising money for KCPR
Cal Poly’s radio station, KCPR 91.3 FM, will hold its 41st annual auction this week in order to replace old equipment, keep music selection up to date and maintain community and volunteer-driven identity. Listeners can bid on more than 25 different…
Ramos memorial held by journalism faculty
The Cal Poly journalism faculty held an open memorial for the late journalism professor George Ramos as part of their department meeting Friday morning. Cal Poly Athletics media director Brian Thurmond moderated the session and opened with remarks about his…