California Polytechnic State University, popularly known as Cal Poly, is a public coeducational university located in San Luis Obispo, California. The university offers a full spectrum of degrees, but is best known for its technical programs. Cal Poly is part of the 23 campus California State University system. March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The term public school has different meanings: In England and Wales, one of a small number of prestigious historic schools open to the public which normally charge fees and are financed by bodies other than the state, commonly as private charitable trusts; here the word public is used much as... The city of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (also SLO) is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. Luis is pronounced as Lewis. ... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Illustration of the backyards of a surburban neighbourhood Suburbs are inhabited districts located either on the outer rim of a city or outside the official limits of a city (the term varies from country to country), or the outer elements of a conurbation. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... The city of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (also SLO) is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. Luis is pronounced locally as the more anglophone Lewis. ... The CSU Seal The California State University (CSU) system has a combined 23 campuses, 414,000 students, and 44,000 faculty and staff, making it the largest university system in the United States. ...

History

Overview

Cal Poly was established in 1901 when Governor Henry T. Gage signed the California Polytechnic School Bill. The California Polytechnic School was built in San Luis Obispo and held its first classes on September 30, 1903, offering secondary (high school) courses of study. The first incoming class was 20 students. The school continued to grow steadily, except during a period from the mid 1910s to the early 1920s when World War I led to drops in enrollment and drastic budget cuts forced fewer class offerings. 1901 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Henry Tifft Gage (December 25, 1852–August 28, 1924) was Governor of California from 1899 until 1903. ... The city of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (also SLO) is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. Luis is pronounced as Lewis. ... September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 92 days remaining, as the final day of September. ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

In 1924, Cal Poly was placed under the control of the California State Board of Education. In 1933, the Board of Education changed Cal Poly into a two year technical and vocational school. The institution began to offer Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1940, and was renamed the California State Polytechnic College in 1947 to better reflect its higher education offerings. In 1960, control of Cal Poly and all other state colleges was transferred from the State Board of Education to an independent Board of Trustees, which later became the California State University system. 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Vocational education prepares learners for certain careers or professions, which are traditionally non-academic and directly related to a trade, occupation or vocation in which the learner participates. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The CSU Seal The California State University (CSU) system has a combined 23 campuses, 414,000 students, and 44,000 faculty and staff, making it the largest university system in the United States. ...

The college was authorized to offer Master of Science degrees in 1967. From 1967 to 1970, the school’s curriculum was reorganized into different units (such as the School of Science and Math, the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the School of Architecture, which was created in 1968). The state legislature changed the school’s official name again in 1971 to California Polytechnic State University. Since the 1970s, the University has seen steady enrollment growth and the construction of many significant buildings on campus. Cal Poly celebrated its centennial in 2001, and kicked off a $225 million fundraising campaign, the largest fund raising effort ever undertaken in CSU history. The Centennial Campaign raised over $264 million dollars from over 81,000 donors, more than tripling the university’s endowment from $43 million to $140 million. Cal Poly’s endowment is in the top 10% of higher education endowments nationwide. 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... A centennial is a 100-year anniversary of an event, or the celebrations pertaining thereto. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Endowment as a noun refers to the capacities that a person, group, institution etc has for doing something before they actually do it. ...

Cal Poly Pomona relationship

Cal Poly Pomona began as a satellite campus in 1938 when a completely equipped school and farm were donated by Charles Voorhis of Pasadena, and his son, Jerry Voorhis. The satellite campus was initially called the Voorhis Unit. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation donated an 812 acre (3.3 km²) horse ranch in Pomona, California to Cal Poly in 1949. Located about one mile from the Voorhis campus, the two became known as the Kellogg-Voorhis unit. The Kellogg-Voorhis unit broke off in 1966, becoming the fully independent Cal Poly Pomona University. Since 1949, the San Luis Obispo and Pomona universities have cooperated on creating a float for the Rose Parade. California State Polytechnic University, Pomona The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is a public, coeducational university situated at the western corner of the city of Pomona, a suburb of Los Angeles, California, and is adjacent to Mt. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Will Keith Kellogg, usually referred to as W. K. Kellogg, (April 7, 1860 – October 6, 1951) was a U.S. industrialist in food manufacturing. ... Pomona is a city located in Los Angeles County, California, in the eastern San Gabriel Valley. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... There is also the Roses Tournament in England Perhaps one of the United States of Americas most important annual festivities, The Tournament of Roses Parade is the 114-year-old traditional parade generally held on New Years Day in Pasadena, California. ...

Female admissions

Cal Poly opened as a coeducational school and had 40 men and 12 women in its incoming class of 1904. In 1930, females were barred from the entire school. Female students were again admitted in 1956, 27 years later, and the university remains coeducational today. 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday. ... Coeducation is the integrated education of men and women. ...

Football team plane crash

On October 29, 1960 a chartered plane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashed on takeoff at the Toledo, Ohio airport. Twenty-two of the forty-eight people on board were killed, including sixteen players, the team’s student manager, and a Cal Poly football booster. Cal Poly alumni John Madden’s fear of flying is commonly attributed to the crash. Madden, who played football for Cal Poly in 1957 and 1958, knew many former teammates aboard the plane. October 29 is the 302nd day of the year (303rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 63 days remaining. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Toledo, Ohio. ... John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936 in Austin, Minnesota) is a former American football coach for the Oakland Raiders who later became a TV football announcer, author and ad pitchman for various products and retail stores. ...

Academics

Programs and degrees

The Agricultural Sciences Building

The univeristy currently offers BA, BS, BAR, BLA, BFA, and Masters degrees in seven colleges:
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• Agriculture (http://cagr.calpoly.edu/)

Outside the Architechture Building

• Architecture & Environmental Design (http://www.caed.calpoly.edu/)

• Business (http://www.cob.calpoly.edu/)

The Cotchett Education Building

• Education (http://coe.calpoly.edu/)

• Engineering (http://ceng-web.calpoly.edu/)

• Liberal Arts (http://cla.calpoly.edu/cla/)

• Science & Mathematics (http://cosam.calpoly.edu/)

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Ranking

The main atrium of the Architecture Building

The Engineering West Building

According to U.S. News & World Report, Cal Poly is ranked the top public, largely undergraduate university in the western United States. Among the highest-regarded engineering schools, it is number 2 and 3 (for schools whose highest degree is a bachelor's or master's) in the nation for its Computer and Industrial/Manufacturing Engineering programs respectively. Cal Poly Architecture Building Photo by: Samuel Li File links The following pages link to this file: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo User:Samxli/gallery Categories: Creative Commons Attribution 2. ... Cal Poly Architecture Building Photo by: Samuel Li File links The following pages link to this file: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo User:Samxli/gallery Categories: Creative Commons Attribution 2. ... Download high resolution version (1019x429, 71 KB)Cal Poly Engineering West Building Photo by: Samuel Li File links The following pages link to this file: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo User:Samxli/gallery Categories: Creative Commons Attribution 2. ... Download high resolution version (1019x429, 71 KB)Cal Poly Engineering West Building Photo by: Samuel Li File links The following pages link to this file: Cal Poly San Luis Obispo User:Samxli/gallery Categories: Creative Commons Attribution 2. ... U.S. News & World Report is a weekly newsmagazine. ...

In a 2002 poll conducted by the leading architecture and engineering journal DesignIntelligence (http://www.di.net), Cal Poly was voted the number 2 architecture school in the nation.

Admissions

Students are required to choose a major when they apply and each candidate is judged against others applying to that major. Because of this, there is a large disparity between what type of student is admitted in different majors. However, the number of applicants in all majors exceeds the number of spaces available. The architecture science majors and some liberal arts majors are particularly difficult to get into. The agricultural majors are the easiest. To prevent students from applying for an easy to get into major and then transferring to another, the transfer process has been made extremely difficult. In some majors it is all but impossible.

In Fall 2004, 27,063 students applied to Cal Poly, and only 9,880 were accepted. That's an acceptance rate of about 37%, and of those accepted, 3,836 (38%) enrolled. The average GPA of freshmen admitted was 3.77, but even higher in some majors. In Fall 2004, 9,043 (57%) men and 6,784 (43%) women were enrolled in Cal Poly. As with everything else, the number of men and women is skewed by major. Liberal arts majors are dominated by women, while engineering, physics and architecture students are mostly male. It is not unusual for classes in these majors to have few or no members of the opposite sex.

Tuition

As of November, 2004, tuition for the average student is approximately $1300 per quarter. Tuition has increased rapidly in the past several years. In 1997, tuition was only about $700. Some of the increases were to make up for the budget cuts in education by the state of California. The others were made to higher additional teachers and to improve campus facilities. November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Campus

The Christopher Cohan Performing Arts Center

Cal Poly owns more land than any other California university, except UC Berkeley. There are 9,678 acres (39 km²) in total. The lands are all used for student education, mainly agriculture. The land includes the main campus, two nearby agricultural lands and two properties in Santa Cruz county. This work is copyrighted. ... This work is copyrighted. ...

The Recreation Center

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Parking

Parking on campus is a perennial problem, eliciting strong emotions in students and nearby residents. A large portion of students live off campus and commute to Cal Poly, in spite of the very high rents. Many choose to live off campus because of the campus-wide ban on alcohol, the long distance to downtown San Luis Obispo and the additional freedoms of off-campus living. Cal Poly has responded by building additional dorms and trying to make living on campus more enjoyable. The measures have been at least partially successful. A more direct approach to the parking crisis was the building of parking structures. However, the completion of the first parking structure was delayed for years, and the others aren't even scheduled to start for several additional years. The parking situation has been made worse by the closure of one of the largest and most convenient parking lots on campus. The parking lot was cleared to make way for additional engineering buildings. Parking will undoubtedly remain a problem for years to come.

Notable alumni

• Gary Bloom, CEO of Veritas Software
• Robert L. Gibson, retired chief, NASA astronaut office; piloted five space shuttle missions, including the first docking with the Russian space station Mir
• Mark Lucovsky, software architect known for being a part of the team that designed and built the Windows NT operating system for Microsoft.
• Kathleen Holmgren, Senior Vice President, Sun Microsystems Network Storage Solutions
• John Madden, sports broadcaster and former American football coach for the Oakland Raiders, who led his team to a win Super_Bowl_XI during the 1976-1977 season.
• Laci Peterson
• Scott Peterson
• Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne which won the ten million dollar Ansari X Prize
• Kristin Smart, went missing whilst attending in 1996.
• Ozzie Smith, Major League Baseball player
• William H. Swanson, Chairman and CEO of Raytheon
• "Weird Al" Yankovic, pop music singer known for his parodies

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Points of interest

• Leaning Pine Arboretum

The Leaning Pine Arboretum (2 ha / 5 acres) is an arboretum and botanical garden located at the north end of the California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo, California, USA. It is open to the public, free, during working hours from Monday through Saturday. ...

External links

• Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (http://www.calpoly.edu) Official Cal Poly website
• Mustang Daily (http://www.mustangdaily.net) The daily Cal Poly newspaper
• GoPoly (http://www.gopoly.com) Official athletics website
• Polyratings (http://www.polyratings.com) Independent faculty evaluation website
• Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Online (http://www.calpolyonline.com) Independent website run by a former student
• Information Systems Association (http://www.isa.calpoly.edu) Organization for future technical professionals

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