Soraya Coley, Ph.D., became the first female and black president of California Polytechnic University at Pomona in 2014. Coley, who grew up in a legally segregated North Carolina and attended segregated schools, had a vested interest in higher education from…
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Juan Gabriel Moreno, president and founder of the highly acclaimed JGMA (Juan Gabriel Moreno Architects), has been named to the Board of Directors of Loyola University Health System (LUHS). Moreno studied architecture at Cal Poly Pomona. This story appeared on…
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Ron Pike, a professor of computer information systems, weighs in on how to develop cyber athletes fit for competition. “Students do not show up untrained and unskilled seeking to become Division I basketball players, and in that vein we need…
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Mariappan “Jawa” Jawaharlal, mechanical engineering professor, discusses “bottleneck professors,” those who have a reputation for failing too many students, and what strategies can be taken to improve the situation. This story appeared on Huffington post on March.20.…
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The Broncos baseball team defeats Chico State 8-7, thwarting the Wildcats effort to extend a winning streak. This story appeared on Oroville Sports on March.19.…
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Last week, directors from the newly created Office of Undergraduate Research at Cal Poly Pomona, a Los Angeles-area polytechnic university within the California State University system, visited Vanderbilt to discuss research and education partnerships. This story appeared on Vanderbilt News on March.…
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Cal Poly Pomona falls to Sonoma State men’s basketball with a 62-56 loss in the California Collegiate Athletic Association tournament This story appeared on Press Democrat on Feb.28.…
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A recent study took a look at each college in America and calculated the number of low-income graduates who wound up being top income earners. We call that mobility. The study comes from the Equality of Opportunity Project and is…
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Cal Poly Pomona made a national list of colleges ranked among the best schools for those who love the great outdoors. The university ranked sixth in the country, according to the finance website “Money.” Only one other California school made…
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Smith was a faculty member at Cal Poly Pomona and was the first and only African-American female in the university’s College of Science. She received the university’s distinguished “Excellence in Teaching Award” numerous times and has taught thousands of math…
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