Follow the links below to the 2002-03 Cal Poly Plan Initiatives annual reports.

• General Education and Support Courses
  • College of Liberal Arts
  • College of Science and Mathematics
• Information Technology Services
• Robert E. Kennedy Library

General Education (GE) and Support Courses

College of Liberal Arts (CLA)   Top

During AY 2002-03 the College of Liberal Arts was provided $150,000 from the Cal Poly Plan Steering Committee to help fund GE offerings. CLA spent that money on two lecturer positions in Speech Communication and one in English because the greatest pent-up demand for GE courses in CLA was for GE Areas A and C.

Because the sizes of and ratios between incoming freshmen and transfer classes vary significantly from one year to the next at Cal Poly, because budget cuts have reduced FTEF allocations to CLA departments during the last two years, and because numbers of and ratios between tenure-track faculty regularly vary from year to year depending on leaves, retirements, and the depth of lecturer pools, FTEF varies in individual programs from one year to the next even in the absence of budget cuts. So that larger trend lines will be visible, I’ve presented data on GE offerings in SCOM and English for five years below. I’ve also listed the sizes of entering freshmen classes for the same years.

Year	# New Admits	# SCOM GE Sections (A2 and A3)	#English GE Sections (All areas)
1998-99	2,305	101	303
1999-2000	2,716	113	295
2000-01	3,111	148 1	346 1
2001-02	3,300+	152 2	329 2
2002-03	2,601	162 3	326 3

1  In 2000-01, CLA spent as much one-time money and money taken from other parts of its budget as possible to meet the challenge of providing GE courses to the very large class of new freshmen

2  In 2001-02, CLA spent as much one-time money and money taken from other parts of its budget as possible to meet the challenge of providing GE courses to the exceptionally large class of new freshmen. In the same year CLA took a budget cut of $80,000, which reduced the total number of course sections taught by the college by 16-17. ALSO in 2001-02 a number of GE courses offered by the college of liberal arts (including oral communication and critical thinking increased from 3 to 4-units by virtue of the new GE program that began in fall 2001.

3  In 2002-03 CLA had already exhausted one-time money, took a budget cut of $145,000, and received $150,000 from the Cal Poly Plan Steering to help fund GE. Total GE sections in Speech and English increased, but there were considerably fewer new freshmen and the college had a smaller budget of its own.

This Fall (2003) approximately 2838 new freshmen enrolled in the university. For this year, CLA’s budget cut is $1,850,000, cutting lecturer FTEF in the college considerably. The Cal Poly Plan Steering Committee has provided $95,000 in addition to the $150,000 from last year. CLA will spend the new $95,000 on sections of GE SCOM and English. We intend to offer 162 or more sections of SCOM A2 and A3 classes and 332 sections of GE English. If we receive $50,000 more, we’ll use that to add 5 more GE sections in areas A and C and to break into smaller sections the 200-student C1 class scheduled for Spring.

College of Science and Mathematics (CSM)    Top

The College of Science and Mathematics received $250,000 of Cal Poly Plan funds during the 2002-03 academic year to enhance offerings of GEB courses in Fall 2002 and Winter 2003. Compared to these quarters in the previous years, we offered an additional 25 lecture sections, 36 lab sections, and one studio section. During these two quarters we accommodated 557 additional students for a total of 3,503 student credit units in GEB and support. Data for Spring quarter was not collected, but total SCU production for the year suggests that similar enhancements occurred during Spring.

Using the $1,186/weighted teaching unit replacement cost value for 2002-03, the additional sections offered cost approximately $210,000. The approximate cost per SCU was about $60 (during 2002-03 the CSM cost per SCU using the college’s state budget allocation only was $106; for the University it was $119). Overall, the College of Science and Mathematics taught 5,350 term SCU’s more in 2002-03 versus 2001-02. In addition to the Cal Poly Plan funds, the College had saved and rolled forward $282,000 to 2002-03 from the previous year to meet the historic enrollment demand.

The College met student demand well during 2003-03 especially considering the level of enrollment beyond budget at Cal Poly. The College experienced record enrollments and taught 3,958 full-time equivalent students, 22.5% of the teaching at Cal Poly.

Information Technology Services   Top

With the $75,000 received, ITS added 1.0 FTE staff position in Central Systems Administration (CCS-CSA) to augment, accelerate and enhance infrastructure support for Student Success Initiatives. A full project description and status report is posted at www.its.calpoly.edu and follow the link in the upper right-hand corner to "Cal Poly Plan Funded Positions Plan - Updated 2/13/03."

Because funding was not secured until the fiscal year had already begun, the full amount was not spent strictly on funding the position in FY 02-03. One position assignment was "temporary-emergency." The other full-time assignment (resulting from the recruitment) did not begin until December. Additional costs associated with "start-up" for this position, and costs associated with student success initiatives undertaken by ITS in general are outlined below.

ITS is preparing a supplemental request for FY 03-04 Cal Poly Plan funding to continue these efforts.

Robert E. Kennedy Library   Top

Cal Poly Plan funding enabled the Kennedy Library to maintain a core level infrastructure, services, and resources that potentially benefit all Cal Poly students and faculty. General and specific deliverables and services included: