Provost Communication, Monday, February 20, 2023

Hello everyone,

Happy Monday! I hope you had a wonderful weekend. 

Congrats to the Range Plant ID Team for Placing Third

The Cal Poly Humboldt Range Plant Identification Team, coached by Todd Golder, placed third in the Team ID (at about 80%) behind the University of Alberta and Antonio Narro (Mexico, both at about 92%). Some might say that makes us #1 in the United States! Graduating senior Ezra Huebner led the pack in plant ID, also placing 3rd in the Undergraduate Range Management Exam (URME).

Open Forums for Dean Search for College of Extended Education and Global Engagement

Beginning on Monday, February 28, 2023, we will have the finalists for the permanent Dean of the College of Extended Education and Global Engagement visiting our campus. Please stay tuned for additional detailed information with regard to specific dates and times of the open forums. I really look forward to your engagement and feedback in the Open Forums and appreciate the work of the search committee. 

Check out the Fabulous Art Exhibit- More Than A Number

I hope each of you gets an opportunity to check out the Art Exhibit “More Than a Number” that opened yesterday at the Reese Bullen Gallery on campus yesterday. It’s truly inspirational. The exhibition features more than a dozen artists from Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City. Since 2021, faculty and staff of Cal Poly Humboldt Art & Film have worked to develop and maintain a chapter of the Prison Arts Collective to offer art instruction and material support for artmaking at Pelican Bay State Prison. PAC is a statewide pairing of California State University art departments and state prisons, which began in 2013. It operates through a belief that art is an inalienable human right. The institutional partnerships are designed to foster creative self-expression in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, such that people who are experiencing incarceration can have access to the transformative power of making and exhibiting art. Paintings, papercraft, crochet, beadwork, drawings, and carvings will be on display at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Reese Bullen Gallery from February 16 - March 11th, 2023.

Take good care and I hope your Monday is amazing. Thanks for all that you do.

Jenn Capps

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Jenn Capps, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs