Cal Poly Humboldt Offering Two Free Courses This Summer
This is a press release from HSU News & Information :
In a first for Cal Poly Humboldt, the University is offering two free summer session classes for undergraduate students currently enrolled in a degree program.
Free summer session units are being made available to advance student success, particularly in an effort to close equity gaps, support first- and second-year student success, increase the success of transfer students, bring back stopped out students, and offer targeted courses that historically have high drop and fail rates to give students an opportunity to catch up.
“This is an incredible moment now that we have transitioned from HSU to Cal Poly Humboldt,” says Carmen Works, Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs. “This summer our students have an opportunity to engage in a robust and meaningful curriculum through a free summer session. This will allow students to either jump start their academic career or progress in their degree program. Summer is an important and valuable time for our students and we are very excited to offer this free of charge. ”
The program also allows students to fulfill prerequisites and GE requirements, potentially graduate sooner, and makes room for them to take elective courses during spring and fall semesters. Students could save more than $2,300 by taking two summer courses.
Summer session at Cal Poly Humboldt is available to anyone who would like to take college courses. The regular course fees are $289 per unit. Only undergraduate students who are enrolled in a degree program at Cal Poly Humboldt are eligible for the summer tuition/fee waiver.
Registration for summer session opened Monday, April 11. Cal Poly Humboldt students can register for summer session classes through their Student Center.
Learn about course offerings, registration, fees & deadlines, and summer class schedule here.
In a first for Cal Poly Humboldt, the University is offering two free summer session classes for undergraduate students currently enrolled in a degree program.
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This is an offer to take any 2 courses for free. I clicked through to the website to see which courses were made free, but it is all of them (barring any exceptions), which is really great and not at all clear in the press release.
The press release writer wasn’t very well educated in basic English writing, was he/she/them?
I could see great potential in Humboldt State being a Polytechnic School for many reasons. I am not confident at what I see so far.
At the surface level it already looks like it’s headed in the direction of what goes on in larger urban areas already, especially in the western part of the country, considering the style and techniques of implementation that look setup to be deployed in the area.
I will make it simple by putting it like this.
Humboldt State better get it’s stuff together before trying to claim title as a polytechnic school. It looks like they want to take the ‘fake it till you make it route’ that is so prevalent for a long time in many areas of society now.
At the same time, their actions are not only showing that they are not on a path to being a polytechnic school, but that they are lucky to be able to even maintain the image that they have over the years when you see articles like this that make you think that they really need to admit that they are only in the league comparable to the larger community colleges that are common across the country.
It’s harsh but I wouldn’t waste my time being so critical if it weren’t for seeing ways that Humboldt State could do some very interesting and beneficial things if………………..(strong leaders, creative and determined minds, vision, too much bureaucracy, taxes, over-regulation, land use policy, poor cost to quality ratio for education, etc.)
Humboldt State could be a Polytechnic school.
But sit back and watch it and it won’t.
It will be like everything else.
The people connected to all the financing are going to milk this from the neighborhood to the state level until it has changed and you can stand back and look at what the results will be.
Jobs mostly for pretenders and not doers.
Talkers and noise makers prioritized over thinkers and creators.
Newer dense apartment buildings, very low quality construction compared to decades ago, while being partially finance by taxpayer money that puts these developments into the hands of private owners.
More shifting of society towards feudalism through bureaucratic mechanisms.
One mechanism being that the majority of people with good jobs will eventually be only people who work for the bureaucracies who make polices that can only be sustained by expanding their policies to keep feeding the beast, which traps those workers in those positions so it’s expand the beast or quite and join the ranks of peasants who have no job opportunities since they have no connections to the bureaucratic jobs.
They’re not on the path to becoming a Polytechnic school. They have already achieved official Polytechnic school status.
You managed to write a long rant without actually saying anything – impressive!
Well at least you guys believe.
“The program also allows students to fulfill prerequisites and GE requirements, potentially graduate sooner, and makes room for them to take elective courses during spring and fall semesters.”
– prerequisite and GE requirements, everyone gets a trophy, can’t even meet college standards but are in college
““This summer our students have an opportunity to engage in a robust and meaningful curriculum”
– robust and meaningful………yeah like what……buzzwords 101
“Free summer session units are being made available to advance student success, particularly in an effort to close equity gaps, support first- and second-year student success, increase the success of transfer students, bring back stopped out students, and offer targeted courses that historically have high drop and fail rates to give students an opportunity to catch up.”
– maybe these kids should meet high school standards before they are admitted into college
Is it possible “GE courses” refer to required non-major courses that are part of most college undergrad curricula? As in, even if you’re a Math major you still have to take 100-level English and History courses. At least, that’s how it was when I attended college.
I don’t think this is about students working on high school level “GED.”
Isn’t most everything a first for Cal Poly Humboldt?
The two free courses they offer cover where to live and where to park. Good luck new students.