Cal Poly: Today and Tomorrow

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Cal Poly Today and Tomorrow

• Linda C. Dalton, Ph.D., AICP
• Executive Vice Provost and Chief Planning Officer
• California Polytechnic State University
• San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
• Prepared for presentation to
• Los Angeles Chapter, Cal Poly Alumni Association
• March 28, 2004

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Outline

• Background
• Strategic Planning and Enrollment Management
• Physical and Environmental Planning and Design

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Background Cal Poly Today
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Background Reputation and Quality

• The Best Regional University in the West
• (Carnegie College Rankings, 2004)
• The Best Undergraduate University in the West
• (Eleven consecutive years - U.S. News, 2003)
• A Top U.S. Public Undergraduate Engineering
  College
• (Third, just below the U.S. Military Academy
• and U.S. Naval Academy - U.S. News, 2003)
• No. 2 Architecture School in the Nation
• (Just below Harvard University)

http//www.calpoly.edu/simplythebest/simplythebest
.html
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BackgroundSelectivity for New Undergraduates
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BackgroundFreshman Quality
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BackgroundGraduation Rates
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Background Master Planning

• Academic Mission
• Polytechnic, Learn by Doing
• Programs not generally available in California
• Demand by applicants for graduates of Cal Poly
• Statewide mission to support California economy
• 1963 Master Plan
• Focused on campus core
• Before California Environmental Quality Act
• Campus/Community Participation 1998-2001
• New Master Plan Approved by California State
  University Board of Trustees, March 21, 2001

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Background Cal Poly Land in San Luis Obispo
County
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Background1963 Master Plan
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Strategic PlanningInstitutional Environment
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Strategic Planning Choices
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Strategic Planning Enrollment Scenarios
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Strategic Planning Enrollment History
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Physical Planning Master Plan Team
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Physical Planning The Game
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Physical Planning The Game
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Physical Planning Master Plan Principles

• State-of-the-art instructional facilities to
  maintain and enhance educational quality
• Student, faculty and staff housing to meet
  present demand as well as future enrollment
• Environmentally responsible planning and design
• Future land use based on constraints and
  development potential of campus lands
• Enhancement of campus as a 24 X 7 community for
  learning and living e.g., support activities
  and services, recreation, infrastructure

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Physical Planning Land Use and Circulation
Concepts

• Areas outside Core
• Maintain outdoor teaching and learning lands
• Protect and enhance natural environment (e.g.,
  Brizzolara and Stenner Creeks)
• Compact Campus Instructional Core
• Integrate instructional and support facilities
• Enrich quality of buildings and open space
• Circulation, Alternative Transportation
  Parking
• Improve pedestrian orientation
• Reduce dependence on automobile

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Physical Planning Future Campus Development
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Initial Projects

• Projects Pre-Dating New Master Plan
• Cerro Vista student apartments (800 beds)
  opened Fall 2003
• Engineering III under construction
• Telecommunications infrastructure under
  construction
• California Blvd. extension under construction
• First Phase Enrollment and Housing
• Engineering IV funded by Proposition 47
• Architecture/Engineering addition and renovation
  design funded by Proposition 47 construction
  funded by Proposition 55
• Faculty and staff housing under review
• Student Housing North apartments (2,700 beds)
  in design
• Mustang Stadium renovations in design
• Next Phase
• Center for Science Math planning and design
  funded by Proposition 55
• Library Expansion in planning

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Engineering IV
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Engineering IV
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Bonderson Project Center
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Center for Science Math
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Mustang Stadium
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Cerro Vista
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Cerro Vista
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Student Housing North
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Student Housing North
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More Information
Linda Dalton email LDalton_at_calpoly.edu Strategic
Planning Documents www.president.calpoly.edu/plan
s.html Master Plan www.facilities.calpoly.edu/