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Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/28/2023, Academic Senate Feb 2023

Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/28/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Academic Spaces Of Possibility? A Proleptic Dialogue With Blackfeminism At The Center, Liliana Herakova, Lauren O. Babb, Kevin Roberge Feb 2023

Academic Spaces Of Possibility? A Proleptic Dialogue With Blackfeminism At The Center, Liliana Herakova, Lauren O. Babb, Kevin Roberge

Feminist Pedagogy

This critical commentary engages our experiences as co-educators in a “Black Feminist Thought and Expression” (BFTE) course, first-of-its-kind at our predominantly white institution in the U.S.. We imagine and provoke redefinitions of “classrooms” and “students” toward the liberatory dialogic learning bell hooks continues to inspire. We reflect on the potentials and perils of BFTE as pedagogical moves toward 1) becoming learners over and over again and 2) creating multiple different learning spaces, not confined to the physical classroom or to texts-as-usual. By bringing our beings together in both this essay and in BFTE, we re-member the dialogic pedagogy of love-as-action …


‘Reading The Cultural Landscape’ In The ‘Birthplace’ Of Modern Race/Racism: Using Hooks To Invite Students In As Critical Knowledge Producers & Co-Conspirators, Danielle Docka-Filipek Feb 2023

‘Reading The Cultural Landscape’ In The ‘Birthplace’ Of Modern Race/Racism: Using Hooks To Invite Students In As Critical Knowledge Producers & Co-Conspirators, Danielle Docka-Filipek

Feminist Pedagogy

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Editor’S Introduction – Getting The Language, Tools, And Love Of Bell Hooks, Qiana Cutts Feb 2023

Editor’S Introduction – Getting The Language, Tools, And Love Of Bell Hooks, Qiana Cutts

Feminist Pedagogy

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Engaged Pedagogy And Journaling: A Pathway To Self-Transformation, Maria Guajardo Feb 2023

Engaged Pedagogy And Journaling: A Pathway To Self-Transformation, Maria Guajardo

Feminist Pedagogy

Journaling, a reflective teaching activity, is an approach for engaged learning that allows students to find one’s voice, reexamine one’s identity, and create a deeper understanding of self, identity, and agency. Central to bell hooks’ feminist pedagogy is engaged teaching and learning, a pathway that allows learner and teacher to actively question what is and what must be (hooks, 1994). This learning-teaching space examined the intersecting topics of gender, culture, and leadership by unlearning, learning, and relearning one’s understanding and experience of these three identities. The main learning objectives of this teaching activity were to 1) engage in critical inquiry; …


Playing With Privilege: A Creative Way For Students To Unpack Privilege, Ashley D. Garcia Feb 2023

Playing With Privilege: A Creative Way For Students To Unpack Privilege, Ashley D. Garcia

Feminist Pedagogy

Although privilege is a foundational concept in many courses, students often have only a vague notion of it, which hinders discussion and analysis. This activity/assignment, grounded in bell hooks' engaged pedagogy, tasks students with visually representing and explaining a concrete instance of privilege to their peers. Through creating comic strips, students must interrogate their assumptions of privilege and begin to encounter its intersectional structure. Creating comic strips that depict privilege helps students grasp the concept and apply it in their self-reflection. Moreover, this establishes a foundation from which students can interrogate the positions of privilege that structure their social realities.


Bell Hooks Feminist Pedagogy In The Library Classroom, Melissa Chomintra Feb 2023

Bell Hooks Feminist Pedagogy In The Library Classroom, Melissa Chomintra

Feminist Pedagogy

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Locations Of Possibility: Reengaging Embodied Pedagogy As An Act Of Resistance, Molly Wiant Cummins Feb 2023

Locations Of Possibility: Reengaging Embodied Pedagogy As An Act Of Resistance, Molly Wiant Cummins

Feminist Pedagogy

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Editor's Introduction: Honoring The Immeasurable: Bell Hooks’ Feminist Pedagogy In Teaching, Kristin Comeforo Feb 2023

Editor's Introduction: Honoring The Immeasurable: Bell Hooks’ Feminist Pedagogy In Teaching, Kristin Comeforo

Feminist Pedagogy

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Teaching Language For Possibility, Not Assimilation: Using Bell Hooks In The English As A Second Language Classroom, Laura T. Irwin, Laura E. Prado, Regina Y. Lee Feb 2023

Teaching Language For Possibility, Not Assimilation: Using Bell Hooks In The English As A Second Language Classroom, Laura T. Irwin, Laura E. Prado, Regina Y. Lee

Feminist Pedagogy

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Executive Committee - Minutes, 2/21/2023, Academic Senate Feb 2023

Executive Committee - Minutes, 2/21/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Executive Committee - Agenda 2/21/2023, Academic Senate Feb 2023

Executive Committee - Agenda 2/21/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/14/2023, Academic Senate Feb 2023

Academic Senate - Agenda, 2/14/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/14/2023, Academic Senate Feb 2023

Academic Senate - Minutes, 2/14/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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United Methodist Children Center Drain Project, Ethan Mikio Lin Feb 2023

United Methodist Children Center Drain Project, Ethan Mikio Lin

Construction Management

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Electrochromic Smart Glass: Supplier Comparison Return On Investment Analysis, Hayden Stewart Owens Feb 2023

Electrochromic Smart Glass: Supplier Comparison Return On Investment Analysis, Hayden Stewart Owens

Construction Management

In recent years, sustainability in construction has become the focus of how the industry can progress with minimal environmental impact. As sustainability certifications become more desirable, key companies in the construction industry have started to seek greener alternatives to standard building systems. There are many sustainable products that are released, but these products are typically so complex that members of the industry are not familiar with these new systems. One novel piece of technology introduced to the industry is electrochromic glass, or smart glass. Electrochromic glass windows examine sunlight and heat exposure from the surrounding environment and change their opacity …


United Methodist Children Center Drain Project, Andy Abdelnour Feb 2023

United Methodist Children Center Drain Project, Andy Abdelnour

Construction Management

The United Methodist Children Center in San Luis Obispo is a preschool for young children in our community. Some of these students are the children of Cal Poly faculty and staff. The previous drain was not draining water properly and was uneven with bumps and dips that became a hazard for the children. Children would trip, fall, and hurt themselves on the drain. A team of two Cal Poly Construction Management students Ethan Lin and Andy Abdelnour worked together to estimate, design, coordinate, demolish, and construct a new section of the drain that would be safe for the students. The …


Executive Committee - Minutes, 1/31/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Executive Committee - Minutes, 1/31/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

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Executive Committee - Agenda 1/31/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Executive Committee - Agenda 1/31/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Academic Senate - Agenda, 1/24/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Academic Senate - Agenda, 1/24/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

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Academic Senate - Minutes, 1/24/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Academic Senate - Minutes, 1/24/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Kantian Ethics And Our Duties To Nonhuman Animals, Samuel Kahn Jan 2023

Kantian Ethics And Our Duties To Nonhuman Animals, Samuel Kahn

Between the Species

Many take Kantian ethics to founder when it comes to our duties to animals. In this paper, I advocate a novel approach to this problem. The paper is divided into three sections. In the first, I canvass various passages from Kant in order to set up the problem. In the second, I introduce a novel approach to this problem. In the third, I defend my approach from various objections. By way of preview: I advocate rejecting the premise that nonhuman animals are nonrational.


Executive Committee - Minutes, 1/10/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Executive Committee - Minutes, 1/10/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Minutes

No abstract provided.


Executive Committee - Agenda 1/10/2023, Academic Senate Jan 2023

Executive Committee - Agenda 1/10/2023, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.


Analysis Of Gene Expression Investigating Biology Underlying High Regenerative Ability Of Marine Invertebrate Botrylloides Violaceus, Cassidy Andrasz Jan 2023

Analysis Of Gene Expression Investigating Biology Underlying High Regenerative Ability Of Marine Invertebrate Botrylloides Violaceus, Cassidy Andrasz

Baker/Koob Endowments Awarded Projects

The marine invertebrate Botrylloides violaceus is a species of tunicate found in Morro Bay, CA with the extraordinary ability to regenerate its whole body. Furthermore, tunicates are the closest known relatives to vertebrates. Due to this organism's regenerative ability and relationship to vertebrates, it is of great interest to investigate the underlying mechanisms of regeneration and review its potential applications to related vertebrate organisms, including humans. The genome of B. violaceus was sequenced and assembled at Cal Poly, SLO which allowed for the proposed experiments to analyze gene expression, a field called transcriptomics. Transcriptomics tells us how the organism is …


A Look Back At The Past: 20 Years Of Kennedy Library Exhibits, Robert E. Kennedy Library Jan 2023

A Look Back At The Past: 20 Years Of Kennedy Library Exhibits, Robert E. Kennedy Library

Creative Works

Explore past exhibits featured at Robert E. Kennedy Library over the past 20 years.


Editor's Statement: Bringing The Past Into The Digital Present, Ryan Debrovner Jan 2023

Editor's Statement: Bringing The Past Into The Digital Present, Ryan Debrovner

sprinkle: an undergraduate journal of feminist and queer studies

No abstract provided.


The Human Factor: Managing Chaos And Change In Times Of Uncertainty, Stephanie Sterling Brasley, Adriana Popescu, Alicia Virtue, Delritta Hornbuckle Jan 2023

The Human Factor: Managing Chaos And Change In Times Of Uncertainty, Stephanie Sterling Brasley, Adriana Popescu, Alicia Virtue, Delritta Hornbuckle

Library Scholarship

The unrelenting, unabating organizational, political, and human resource stressors library managers faced pushed the boundaries of their capacity to keep pace with the longer-term demands of this catastrophic time; however, their dedication and resilience, bolstered by wisdom from the models and theories discussed here, hold promise for a positive future.


Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project, Nikkia Rae Psomas-Sheridan, Santiago Robles, Ben Elkayam, Benjamin Ulfhake Jan 2023

Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project, Nikkia Rae Psomas-Sheridan, Santiago Robles, Ben Elkayam, Benjamin Ulfhake

Mechanical Engineering

The Northrop Grumman Collaboration Project (NGCP) is a collaborative club project sponsored by Northrop Grumman for the students of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo (CPSLO) and Cal Poly Pomona (CPP) to create a fleet of vehicles to aid in the simulated rescue of stranded hiker. The CPSLO club is responsible for delivering an autonomous flight vehicle that can suppress a fire and retrieve a payload. Mechanical Design Team of the CPSLO team was responsible for the design of the frame, electronics housing, and payload and fire suppression systems.


Active Church Auditorium Redesign And Renovation, Jonah S. Kim Jan 2023

Active Church Auditorium Redesign And Renovation, Jonah S. Kim

Construction Management

Active Church is a life-giving and dynamic church that exists to move people from where they are to where God wants them to be. This church for most of its lifespan has been located at the Fremont Theater as they did not have a building that they owned. However, in 2022 the church closed escrow on a building that was owned by another church located at 3172 Johnson Ave, San Luis Obispo, 93401. Before moving into the building major renovations needed to be done as this was a very old building from the 1960s. The initial design of the auditorium …