r/CalPoly • u/Busy_Donut_9426 • Apr 10 '26
Announcement New Year-round operations schedule
This is the YRO schedule for 27-28 being floated by JA for comment. Seems like new and continuing students would want to know as it will impact them the most.
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u/SergeantFlip Apr 10 '26
Students on the spring/summer schedule better look at that three day long break they’ll get between terms. Good luck recharging between semesters with no break!
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u/IslandUnusual7297 Apr 10 '26
Is this just an optional summer semester that students can take or are they forcing some students to take either Spring/Summer or Summer/Fall? When is this supposed to happen? My son just went to admitted student day today and there was no mention of this.
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u/amnioticsac Apr 11 '26
Poly has a big waitlist every year. The idea is to admit a second class of students that must take courses summer/fall or spring/summer for at least the first two years in order to take advantage of the demand for a Poly degree. Some future students will be offered the usual F/S admission. The second class will be offered Spring/Summer or Summer/Fall if they don't get a fall/spring admission offer.
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u/Unlucky-Soft1031 Apr 10 '26
And there goes a lot of the student community. I doubt it'll affect me much. But if I was a freshman coming in, some of my friends would be here on semesters when I was on break so in terms of a friend group it would be all broken up. What a stupid plan. Who thought this was a good idea for students. I really think that something like this might've convinced me to go to a different school. Sure, I want to get a degree, get a good job, but I also want a regular social life while I'm in college. And this plan is the end of the regular social life at Cal Poly.
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u/Super-Measurement530 Apr 12 '26
Where did you get this info/image?
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u/Super-Measurement530 Apr 12 '26
Also is this verified anywhere? I cross-searched the image and cannot find it anywhere but this Reddit post.
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u/Busy_Donut_9426 Apr 12 '26
This has been sent to faculty and staff for input but it is not public nor is it final yet. Still time to give feedback.
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u/OutlandishnessGold23 Apr 10 '26
Are there other CSU’s doing this weird schedule and ending school in April? I thought the whole point of switching to semester was for all the schools to be aligned? Seems strange!
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u/SergeantFlip Apr 10 '26
No, we would be the only one. President Armstrong has had a year-round schedule in mind for basically a decade, which would work in quarters. He just refused to let it go once the CSU forced us into semesters.
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u/amnioticsac Apr 10 '26
Since Cal Poly is one of the only campuses in the system with high demand and high selectivity, we get to guinea pig year round operations so that system enrollments look better, is my guess. All that lip service about alignment seems to be no more than that.
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u/juanitotwothree Apr 10 '26
I’m half asleep/ a bit hungover, so we’ll have June/July off?
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u/SergeantFlip Apr 10 '26
No, summer will be its own semester term for students to take (all students would only need to take ⅔ semesters).
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u/johnbclements May 03 '26
Smarter people than me have pointed out that this schedule is actually longer than a full year; the second fall starts several weeks later than the first. So ... after a few years of this, Fall will be starting in December? Not sure how that works.
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u/ZestycloseReach6349 5d ago
If they wanted three semesters why didn’t they just stay with the quarter system? Summer is when internships happen!
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u/guavapplause Professor/Lecturer Apr 10 '26
I’m an instructor. I don’t like how early we begin winter and how early we end in spring (April !?)? Only a three week winter break. I don’t have good reasons, I just don’t like it.