Cal Poly Humboldt Aims to Double Enrollment, meets with Humboldt Realtors to Prepare for Housing Needs
Press release from the Humboldt Association of Realtors:
The Humboldt Association of Realtors® met with Cal Poly Humboldt President, Tom Jackson, and Provost, Jennifer Capps, Thursday, March 10th, at the Eureka Elks Lodge. Jackson and Capps presented on what it means to be a polytechnic university, new academic programs, funding, and infrastructure projects, to help give clarity on how Humboldt County can prepare for this shift. Cal Poly Humboldt received $458 Million in state funding to support this transition broken down in $433 million in onetime funding and $25 million in base (ongoing) funding. Cal Poly Humboldt leadership plans to use about $192.8 million in academic infrastructure projects and about $240.2 million in non-academic infrastructure projects, for a detailed breakdown please refer to the slides below.
With the new Polytechnic status, Cal Poly Humboldt leadership aims to double their enrollment from 5,600 to around 11,000 students with an anticipated 30% being online and increase university employees from 1,200 to 1,300. To help this transition move smoothly a facilities implementation team and 6 facilities sub working groups, will work on the planning, oversight, and implementation. The Housing Working Group will focus on 5 items, Craftsman Housing, Engineering and Technology housing, Library Circle Housing, Campus Apartment Housing, and the Housing Portfolio.
Through the 30-minute presentation, President Jackson and Provost Capps helped bring awareness to the upcoming benefits and struggles that Humboldt County may face in the transition from HSU to Cal Poly Humboldt.
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The Humboldt Association of Realtors® met with Cal Poly Humboldt President, Tom Jackson, and Provost, Jennifer Capps, Thursday, March 10th, at the Eureka Elks Lodge. Jackson and Capps presented on what it means to be a polytechnic university, new academic programs, funding, and infrastructure projects, to help give clarity on how Humboldt County can prepare for this shift. Cal Poly Humboldt received $458 Million in state funding to support this transition broken down in $433 million in onetime funding and $25 million in base (ongoing) funding. Cal Poly Humboldt leadership plans to use about $192.8 million in academic infrastructure projects and about $240.2 million in non-academic infrastructure projects, for a detailed breakdown please refer to the slides below. 
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Apparently Cal Poly had 68,000 applicants this year… Clearly, there’s not space for 20% of them…
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/education/article259544654.html
If anyone at all thinks that Arcata/HSU is ready to “double enrollment” then they are smoking some righteous trees, dude…
Look out, sick little town, there’s a lot of ugly sentiment about outsiders blowing up Arcata with a whole lot more students…
Parents: I sure do hope your kids don’t come home next summer with “Kush-Breath” and a cute little Fentanyl habit…
Lmao…are u serious??? There’s no ugly sentiment in Arcata. People are stoked on the development and boon for the local economy. Arcata needs Cal Poly a hell of a lot more than Cal Poly needs Humboldt. This move to Cal Poly is going to save Northern Humboldt. All those struggling new businesses that just opened up in the last couple of years are going to be super happy that a bunch of rich kids with rich parents are going to be spending a ton of money in town. We need this influx in people with money, even poor students have students loans, to transition from a black market weed / drug economy to a legit economy with people making good money in a legal way.
In the first place, people don’t buy fentanyl because they want to wake up the next morning. It’s not the “homelesses” who are demanding fentanyl in their meth and it’s not the “homelesses” that made me fear for my physical safety in Arcata.
It’s (collective) (y)our (expletive deleted) kids.
Mine didn’t turn out so great either, so I’m not refighting the battle of Pampers vs Huggies yet again, I’m just pointing out that (collective) we just got done paying for and building all that low income housing for our community members and now CalPoly wants to double enrollment.
If that’s your kid I see talking to himself, angry at the world, all alone on the streets drinking and mething himself to death because some rich kid’s brat stole your own kid’s apartment, then I forgive you.
Humboldt is closed to wannabe “hippie kids” and has been for a long time. The internet needs to update itself.
And I will always love you for who you
actually are, beloved ex-community, not for some silly legend that no group of imperfect human beings could realistically be expected to live up to.
Thirty years was a long visit. Thirty-four was way too long so I owe (collective) you an apology.
So I shall wish you all farewell from my little secret happy place that is safely outside of the future former Emerald Triangle.
This is insane. In my opinion. A misguided and thoughtless mistake.
This is the smartest decision Arcata has made in the 30+ years I’ve lived in Humboldt
Huge increase in students, small increase in employment, choice of building on unstable soil of the hills or the agricultural and wetlands. That’s going to go smoothly. Maybe they will start paying for the local services they use.
But now that online classes have a foot in the door, everyone can enroll at MIT or Harvard and little Humboldt will be the the Nurse Practioners of education‐ no doctors but a thousand almost as good as…
Thousands of new people spending money in town = major increases in revenue for local businesses >>
I’d say this is EXACTLY 💯 what Humboldt needs right now to help reinvigorate the economy
One has to wonder if they’ve even begun to ponder things like how the City’s wastewater treatment facility could handle that, or where the healthcare service will come from to accommodate that considering it is essentially impossible to get in as a new patient at any of the offices or clinics around here right now.
They have a health clinic at the University. Obviously you never went to HSU…..
I am afraid I have to give the plans to double enrollment at Cal Poly Humboldt a big fat “O.” Housing, surface streets, wastewater treatment, lack of police, etc., will all be affected by the student increase to around 11,000. I think they are standing with their heads in a vapor!
Do we have any say in the matter?
I really don’t think so friend.
Lmao there building housing so check that off your list
The Arcata police department and Humboldt sheriff’s office are hiring aggressively right now, so check that off your list as well
Surface streets!?! What the fuck is that comment? I skateboard and what’s super cool in Arcata right now is they have been resurfacing ALL the streets in town. It’s been awesome! Super smooth asphalt. Like surfing 🏄♂️ on a glassy wave in the Ocean, so check that off your list as well.
The wastewater treatment is something to think about, but it has NOTHING to do with increases enrollment. The problem with Arcata’s wastewater plant is it is built on the wetlands and bay. There was a new King Tide report put out this year by a very cool local Arcata resident that showed sea level rise is a big threat to the wastewater plant and eventually do to rising sea levels it will need to be relocated….
Local realtors should have nothing to do with this, CPH needs to build enough student housing to take care of the increase in enrollment.
This is a press release, from the Realtors association. It describes a Realtors meeting, where they invited university officials to speak. It was not a “meeting” with university officials. Trade groups hold these kind of get-togethers all the time, and bring in officials to speak about topics of interest to their members. It does not mean, nor even imply, that the trade group has a seat at any kind of decision-making table.
I understand. Notwithstanding any of that, local realtors should have nothing to do with this, CPH needs to build enough student housing to take care of the increase in enrollment.
Crazy! An absolute nightmare. The lack of housing, impacts to our roads, water and sewer capacity, medical, police and social services, makes one wonder if this is a benefit to the region. I believe UC Santa Barbara is being sued by the City of Goleta for failing to provide promised housing. Cal Berkeley may be in a similar position.
Their 2050 beds are costing taxpayers 275,000,000. That’s $134,000+ a bed, not including land costs. Think housing is expensive now, just wait! It’s already CRAZY!
We should be able to rely on CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, to analyze the impacts of doubling the enrollment. However, state Senator Scott Wiener recently unveiled a bill that would allow university and state schools to bypass the e California Environmental Quality Act. Thanks Scott!
Hard as change is, this is a general win over the long term. Decades of budget cuts, reductions in offerings, staff treated like disposable meat, declining enrollment, Arcata street-urchin detritus mucking the town (affecting businesses and homeowners). Sure, growth can and will affect the sleepy slowness, the pseudo-charm (bedfellow being mild tang of micro-urban rot). Key will be somehow retaining the funky-positive qualities of enough parts of town … and traffic calming, including increasing walkability.
Or not. The most outstanding feature of university life is the shallowness of it’s concern for the non-university life around it. Gee whiz, wonder why? A huge influx of semi adolescents who are there temporarily to benefit themselves taught by a group who are so used to their pretty arbitrary control of those by definition less knowledgeable students that they dismiss everyone outside of their hierarchy? Yes, such places provide a benefit to the area. But that benefit is only what suits itself to give without accepting any obligation for the damage it does in serving itself. Educated people ought to do better, especially since about half of their funding is supplied by taxes. They at least could create and pay for their own fire, emergency and road work cause by their essentially for profit business. They could have an outreach for serving local non university problems, like child or health care. They could do a whole lot more good and a whole lot less damage but they don’t.
You know who has the largest capital fund managed for their own good in the area? It is not the local hospital. It is the University. Their employees are among the highest reimbursed for the least demands on their time. The pensions and benefits well exceed the local Federal and most of the State employees not to mention the all the county employees. They are an elephant in the room that puts a shine on the local economy only for some and only if their use of local resources without paying taxes is ignored.
“The most outstanding feature of university life is the shallowness of it’s concern for the non-university life around it” Always some of that, the trade-offs of life. There’s been thousands of former students who’ve contributed to the community, multiple generations of. Overall, good for the region.
Everything else, such as yourh benefiting, how horrible!
Do you have kids?
Where did you go to college?
As to staff remuneration, dang, higher than average pay, health benefits if perm hires, etc., well, don’t we aspire for such as enlightened civilized beings? And sure beats an LNG port, a gravel im-port, and other goof ideas.
Recall all that “affordable” housing that is going to be built in Humboldt? Ain’t gonna benefit the locals…
Donkey? Rimme (pronounced “ree-meh”) is an Indian (sub-continent – India) name for a pet we had as kids.
Local? Always subject to interpretation, multiple. For example, there were a number of Tribes here before European’s arrived, expanding.
Have a nice day!
Bingo.
The “homeless apartments” that were intended for (y)our community members’ troubled sons and daughters are in the crosshairs.
No educational institution is worth your kids’ lives.
Stay strong, Humboldt.
I see you changed your wanna-insult-me name to “edit”, or somebody did (thank you)
Hahaha yeah they’ve already been up and done had plenty o meetings you must be blind if you can’t see how much development has already “progress”ed lately. And of course there’s never any inside info or shady deals amongst the local rich developers no of course not. I’m a big fan of the myth of progress and that every single aspect of the growth of our industrial death culture shrivelization is an absolute disaster. Education my ass. Try teaching the children all about who really did 911 and blamed it on the muslims, instead. Feeble minded retarts have no idea what heinous destruction progress is bringing here. Idiots think “good growth” but they don’t see the long term perspective of Nieuw Amsterdam village moving on up.
All the lumberland in the beauty strip of the Humboldt Bay area has been well groomed and prepared for turning this region into another Santa Cruz. Take a good look around the hills of the blue lake valley and know that all that forest you can see has the subdivision roads already planned out. Go hike around above Trinidad like I did. All timberland up in there. With ocean view. 20 years ago they already had the cul de sacs put in… There’s some powerful people who have been waiting a long time for this juggernaut of progress to bust loose around here and it would be nice if their machinations could be tempered by ecology but it can’t happen here. All the higher education will, as usual, result in more killing of all life on earth. No sugar coating it. At least our modern loggers here didn’t bring in the goats when they were done, but we have managed the forest into kindling and There’s no fixing it in homer Simpson retart nation. It’s not global warming it’s local logging, happening everywhere, all at once, with modern technology, PLUS cumulative impact. There’s going to be a flood of climate refugees here with the Sahara Effect on the interior of the American West anyway. Logging is arson, etc…Good luck.
Bill Gates and Fauci have a plan.
“Trust the plan”
Yeah it’s probably not going to be a happy local life. I think the Fink is obfuscating. That’s how you get 10 tril! But wouldn’t it be nice. What we’re likely going to get is new improved globalisation aka TOTALITARIANISM https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/24/blackrocks-larry-fink-who-oversees-10-trillion-says-russia-ukraine-war-is-ending-globalization.html
Actually this reminds me of a famous housing project on the lower East side of nyc. Government bent over backwards to encourage an insurance giant to finance housing for all the ww2 veterans coming home. They condemned the entire region of old brownstones formerly known as the Gaslight District (haha) so that MetLife could buy the land cheap, and the city also let them pay no taxes on the development for 25 years- substantial support from the gubbernmint! The dark side was that it was for whites only, because the chairman of MetLife back in the late 1940s was quoted in the new york times as saying “maybe in 100 years blacks and whites can live together, but not now.” Yeah that really did happen. In the so called liberal North. It remained whites only for decades after that. In the 1940s not the 1840s. The black ww2 veterans were quite perturbed and did some serious protesting. The brainwashing is so complete now that everyone will just be happy like the Great Reset told us to be, and the rural days will be gone
What a bunch of whining b!ches in the comment section. Always have to be negative and rain on others parade. Always looking at the glass half empty. Always finding the negative. Get a life! The discussion on this forum for the last year has been about the Humboldt economy going down the drain and everyone saying our county is going to be crushed by the corporate Cannabis fallout. Cal Poly is a win! It’s a win for the Humboldt economy. It’s a win for local businesses. It’s a win for reinvigorating a county that has lost its direction. Southern Humboldt needs to get It’s shit together, because up north things are going pretty darn good!
It is a loss for anyone looking to buy or rent a home locally. The university benifits the most by far, they should have to build enough housing for at least 80% of their students.
yup
If you weren’t so fixated on showing how much contempt you have for others, you might have noticed that the average income in Arcata is about half of Eureka’s . And Eureka is not even close to average earnings for California. Bringing a 50% increase in poor, subsidized students only with zero long term commitment to the area makes it worse. A few landlords, one grocery store and bars and low end food places do benefit. Certainly the University Administration does. Maybe an airline or a drug seller too. But in exchange students bring destructive adolescent bad behavior for police and paramedics to clean up on the local dime, attract sex predators (not their fault but there it is anyway), cause fires and damage for which the University pays nothing, vote agenda ridden bad ideas locally then 99% leave.
Now if the university intended to double the employment like they intend to double the student population, that would be a boost to the local economy. But they don’t apparently intend to do anything close to it. And, if they follow the usual university pattern, they will contract their expansion with out side contractors who will bring in mostly their own cheaper labor. This has all the hallmarks of an ambitious piece of fiction of a university President, who already has been singularly good at avoiding the local community, who will get promoted on the basis of it and move on before the downside hits the community. It will play well in Sacramento but they barely notice we exist.
Yes the University could do much for locals. But they don’t care to any than you do.
You are ridiculous 😆 the chainsaws were way before tge generators. There’s no timber harvest plans for the Arcata housing development projects. Most is in the bottoms where there are no trees……
We could use a skyscraper of cheap apartments in sohum. That would be a blight but a godsend.
This is the reason I was against Newsom throwing money at the college during his gubernatorial instability, “just to do it.”
The area can’t handle it. Cost of living is already too flipping high, and the laaaast idea for “housing” that the college came up with, was half baked (pun not intended) and would have led to plenty of accidents and traffic jams on the Sunset Bridge. Pedestrians would have needed to, frankly, given up their hopes and dreams of ever walking those “Sunset Bridge”-connecting-to-LK Wood” intersections, ever again, if that project had gone forward.
And that isn’t even thinking of the “bike people.” Oh, the humanity of the hundreds of Arcata bike people that would have been spawned due to that / will be spawned in the future, if the college enrollment gets up to the mid-to-high teen….thousands.
should have let them build it.