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CLA Alumni Social Media Ambassadors
Feb 27, 2018
Share your love for your alma mater by becoming a CLA Social Media Alumni Ambassador!
Alumna's Video Production Company Produces Viral Video with Important Message
Feb 23, 2018
Brownieland Pictures was started more than 10 years ago by Robyn Kranz (Journalism, ’90) and her partner Randy Frostig with the goal of giving back to their community through video production.
Cal Poly Students Honored by Lawmakers at State Capitol
Feb 15, 2018
Nineteen Cal Poly students, including five from the College of Liberal Arts, were recognized for their awards and other accomplishments by state lawmakers on the floors of the state Assembly and Senate in Sacramento on Monday, Feb. 12, 2018.
Professor's Photos Capture 365 Days of Bishop Peak
Feb 7, 2018
Graphic communication professor Brian Lawler captured 365 days of Bishop Peak in a photo series inspired by his daily bicycle commute.
CLA Associate Dean for Diversity and Curriculum Featured in Cal Poly Magazine's "My 2017"
Jan 25, 2018
Jennifer Teramoto Pedrotti, associate dean for diversity and curriculum in the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) talked with psychology senior and CLA Student Diversity Committee member Marcos Ramirez-Santos about diversity initiatives that are shaping campus. The video originally appeared in the winter 2018 issue of Cal Poly Magazine.
History Alumnus Recognized on The Ellen Show for Work as Teacher
Dec 14, 2017
Wyatt Oroke (History, ’13) was recognized on The Ellen Show for his dedication as an eighth grade humanities teacher at City Springs Elementary and Middle School in Baltimore, Maryland.
KCPR is No. 1
Dec 14, 2017
Cal Poly’s student-run radio station 91.3 KCPR has taken the number one spot on the Great Value Colleges list of 30 Amazing College Radio Stations of 2017-18. Great Value Colleges is a website dedicated to helping students make decisions about college education.
Cal Poly English and Agriculture Professors Win USDA Grant
Dec 13, 2017
Yiwen Chiu, a professor in Cal Poly’s Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences Department, and Cal Poly English Professor Jason Peters have been awarded a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
Chiu and Peters will receive approximately $140,000 over three years to pilot an undergraduate curriculum that combines environmental science and rhetoric. One goal of the new curriculum is to teach students how to best communicate about sustainable agriculture.
Jason Peters,
English Department professor
“Creating sustainable agriculture requires scientific skills like quantitative analysis, sure, but it also requires students to learn to talk to a range of stakeholders in all sorts of situations to get people working together in innovative ways based on what the science is telling us,” said Peters. “And that’s where environmental rhetoric and communication comes in. With the program Yiwen and I are designing, students will learn how to get legislators, farmers, environmental scientists, citizens, and consumers all on the same page and collaborating to make the science of sustainability work.”
The curriculum will consist of required courses in environmental life-cycle analysis combined with courses in public rhetoric and environmental communication. The project is a partnership between professors and researchers in the two academic departments and the University Writing and Rhetoric Center at Cal Poly.
The grants are funded through NIFA’s Higher Education Challenge (HEC) Grants Program, which aims to help higher education institutions teach the next generation of food and agricultural science professionals. HEC also seeks to improve local economies by supporting the development of degree programs that respond to emerging employment opportunities.
Chiu and Peters will design and implement the pilot curriculum over the next three years. They plan to publish the results of the collaboration.
“We’ve learned so much from other scholars and teachers working across traditional disciplinary lines on these issues all around the world, and we hope to be able to contribute what we learn from doing this work at Cal Poly,” said Peters.
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