| admin, you are right. when cal poly pomona dropped the required units from 198 to 180 many of the distinctive enrichment courses were dropped or just not offered any more. as a result the unique polytechnic feel of the campus began to get morphed into just another cal state. that, combined with peer schools beating our pants off for money, has placed us in the academic doghouse. even more recently we have seen classes that once enrolled 20 get kicked up to 45, and classes with 35 or 40 now packed with 60 or 65. that's hardly building quality, folks.
i can understand why alums like xiaoxue not being loyal. when you suffer through four to six years of crowded or cancelled classes in buildings that never have been modernized and are fifty years old and THEN go to grad school at a so called lesser cal state with a ninety million dollar state of the art building you realize how far behind pomona has fallen. the money follows success, and it's happening much more readily at almost anywhere other than cal poly pomona, sadly.
but there remain some good signs, particularly in the collins school and in engineering. these units keep the entire university at least in the conversation. |