AVP is a worldwide phenomenon, but has a strong network though the prison system in California. According to their website, “Through an international network of local chapters, AVP facilitators — all trained volunteers — offer workshops in prisons as well as in the community for all who would like to reduce the level of unresolved conflict in their lives and the lives of those around them.”

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At Cal Poly, the music department and theatre and dance department share a building that struggles to cater to even one. 

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When the time arrived to pick a college, Christian Cueto had three main criteria: A good engineering program, a good surrounding area and the ability to keep playing music. Cal Poly checked his boxes and the band especially was “a huge reason why I came here.”

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Cal Poly will receive a recently announced $20 million gift from Lynda and Stewart Resnick to fund a career services hub for first-generation students.

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According to a university news release, changing the name will also raise awareness regarding this role and will “introduce the potential for expanded cross-campus and community partnerships.”

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In efforts to promote sustainability on campus, Cal Poly participated in PayByPhone’s tree-planting campaign throughout December, according to Cal Poly’s Dec. 13 report. PayByPhone is available for all campus visitors to use when paying for parking on campus but is also a service provided elsewhere in California. 

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Based on the belief that the field of engineering currently lacks collaboration and can be oppressive, Breaking the Binary aims to reject “binaries or dualisms commonly used to create hierarchies in engineering thought and practice” and to dismantle “the binaries by identifying and breaking down oppressive norms,” according to the project’s website.

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Music professor Alicia M. Doyle was only in high school when she first was hit with a realization that her exposure to music was very limited and devoid of diversity. […]

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Cal Poly’s Women in Business (WIB) club will be hosting its eighth annual ‘Defining her Future’ conference on Friday, March 3. The event will run from 8 a.m. to 4 […]

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The City of San Luis Obispo Promotional Coordinating Committee (PCC) has recently awarded eight local nonprofit organizations with grant funding through the Cultural Grants-in-Aid Program, according to a city news […]

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