Pros
Cal Poly is a beautiful campus and most of the faculty and staff here are great people as well. but the climate of education is changing drastically.
Cons
Management is no longer advocating on behalf of students and delivering all of the counseling and resources necessary for a successful completion of a degree seeking student. The primary concern is the profit margin! The university is largely understaffed we are finding that the preferred student is one who can navigate the website and self identify issues and resolutions vs. being able to visit the Registrar's Office for direction and/or an academic counselor or evaluator for suggestions on university policies that could successfully impact their experience. The university president delivered his weekle newsletter this week and praise CPP for delivering graduates who are among the highest paid starting salaries in the nation, however it's staff is grossly underpaid and overworked. Management is no longer advocating on behalf of students and delivering all of the counseling and resources necessary for a successful completion of a degree seeking student. The primary concern is the profit margin! The university is largely understaffed we are finding that the preferred student is one who can navigate the website and self identify issues and resolutions vs. being able to visit the Registrar's Office for direction and/or an academic counselor or evaluator for suggestions on university policies that could successfully impact their experience. The university president delivered his weekle newsletter this week and praised CPP for delivering graduates who are among the highest paid starting salaries in the nation, however it's staff is grossly underpaid and overworked. The name of the game here is to understaff and defer from promoting from within for 2 reasons: 1) Keeping salaries low campus wide, bringing an outside employee reduces benefit costs and continues entry level salaries for whatever department one is interested in. 2) The "new hire" is unaware of the lack of upward mobilty, makes the transition much easier.