Provost Communication, Monday, May 5, 2025

Hello and happy Monday. I hope you had a wonderful weekend, and I hope you didn’t blow away in the wind! I was grateful to be able to attend a Social Work event on Friday evening honoring alumni, faculty, and initiating honor students into their honor society. I am grateful for the next generation of helping professionals. 

Academic Field Trip Newsletter

Thanks to Geneviève Marchand for her work as the Risk Fellow in Risk Management (Division of Administration and Finance) this year. One of the results of her work is the creation of an Academic Field Trip Newsletter (please see attached) aimed at providing you with valuable resources to support safe and successful field trips.

Exciting Enrollment Update

As of May 1, 2025, our total deposits for fall are up 15% year to date, with 275 more new students depositing than last year. Our first-time undergraduate (FTUG) deposits are up by 110 students, or 12%, and upper-division transfer (UDT) deposits are up by 121 students. Given this, our overall enrollment target of 6,347, 4.9% higher than last year, is easily within reach. Hitting 4.9% growth still requires work, but we're in a place where we are looking at how much growth we can sustain rather than whether there will be growth at all, which is extremely positive. Thanks to the Enrollment Management and Student Success team and all of our faculty and staff for the tremendous work in making this happen. Our collaborative and strategic work is realizing success! Well done!

Bike to Work/School Day – May 6, 2025, at Cal Poly Humboldt
Celebrate Bike Month by riding to campus on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025. Stop by the Social Justice, Equity & Inclusion Center (SJEIC) between 7:30 am and 9:30 am for FREE coffee, juice, bagels, fruit, bike tune-ups, and more! All month long, help Cal Poly Humboldt climb the leaderboard in the Bike Month Challenge! Just download the Love to Ride app, create your account, and log your rides. Be sure to join the ‘Cal Poly Humboldt’ workplace to ride up the leaderboard with your coworkers. To learn more about Bike Month events, please visit bikemonthhumboldt.org. If you have questions, please contact Morgan King at mpk9@humboldt.edu.

"Scaling our Energy Future" with Carla Peterman of PG&E - Thursday, May 8, 2025

Dr. Carla Peterman, Chief Sustainability Officer at PG&E, will deliver a lecture focused on how PG&E, as one of the nation’s largest electric and gas utilities, expects to scale the energy system to meet growing demand, decarbonization, and resiliency goals, while ensuring energy remains affordable. This free, public event will take place from 5:30 pm-7 pm in BSS 166.

Carla J. Peterman is Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer for PG&E Corporation. At PG&E, she oversees the company’s regulatory, legislative, sustainability, and charitable strategies. Peterman has spent her career in several senior-level government and utility roles focused on California’s clean energy future. Peterman holds a PhD in Energy & Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and MS and MBA degrees from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. For more information, please visit: http://schatzcenter.org/events/. 

I hope you have a terrific Monday.

Jenn Capps