Polytechnic
A Historic Integration
The 92-acre maritime campus in Vallejo, in Solano County, Calif., will be known as “Cal Poly, Solano Campus” and will house the “Cal Poly Maritime Academy.”
On Nov. 21, the CSU Board of Trustees voted in favor of integrating Cal Poly and Cal Maritime universities. In a letter to the campus community, President Jeffrey D. Armstrong called the move “exciting news for both our campus communities.”
The integration “will provide the necessary financial and administrative support and enrollment and admissions expertise to stabilize and strengthen the critical Cal Maritime resource while augmenting Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing education and providing new and expanded opportunities to even more students,” Armstrong wrote.
The two universities will begin operating as Cal Poly on July 1, 2025, with full academic integration complete by Fall 2026.
Around the World
On Nov. 18, the Institute of International Education announced that Cal Poly once again earned the top ranking among master’s-level institutions for sending students abroad, following a statistical survey of U.S. campuses for the 2022-23 academic year. Here’s a look at some of the statistics.
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Number of Cal Poly students who went abroad
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Countries that Cal Poly students visited
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Times Cal Poly has received this distinction since 2020
Words of Wozdom
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke recently at Cal Poly to kick off the Noyce School of Applied Computing’s Distinguished Speaker Series. The series aims to inform and foster connection with the Cal Poly community, the Noyce School of Applied Computing and the industries it serves.
How is that AI trained on pieces of creativity that humans have created? You should be able to click on anything and say, ‘Where did you get this?
We're Number One!
In the last few months, multiple publications have declared something that we Mustangs have long known: We’re the best! Here are a few of those rankings:
This ranking, from U.S. News & World Report, marks the second straight year Cal Poly has earned this title among master’s-level institutions and the 32nd straight year the university has ranked as best public masters-level institution in the West.
Forbes named Cal Poly the best public-master’s university in California and 14th on the list of top public and private universities in the West in the magazine’s 2024-25 list of America’s Top Colleges.
Money magazine awarded Cal Poly a top five-star ranking in its 2024-25 Best Colleges in America list that is designed to help students and their parents select a school in terms of value.
A Mustang Milestone
Cal Poly has reached a significant milestone in its quest for designation as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), as fall 2024 enrollment numbers show the university’s Latinx/e student enrollment at the required 25% this year for the first time ever.
Latinx/e students make up approximately 29% of this year’s incoming undergraduate class, the result of the university’s sustained effort to attract a more diverse student body that better reflects the demographics of California.
This achievement brings Cal Poly one step closer to official HSI designation, which requires maintaining this 25% threshold for two consecutive years before applying. Achieving HSI status will unlock access to resources and grants that will help deepen support systems for Latinx/e students and further strengthen the university’s goal of fostering an inclusive campus culture.
Quantum Quest
At an underground lab in Italy, Physics professor Thomas Gutierrez and a team of Cal Poly student researchers have been investigating quantum phenomena that could change our understanding of how particles behave. Image below: A crystal array from the Italian lab, courtesy of CUORE Collaboration.
We’re looking for a type of nuclear decay that is currently forbidden by the (existing) laws of physics. It’s not supposed to happen. So, if it does — which is what we’re looking for — it tells you a lot about the way the world works.
