Provost Communication, Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Good morning and happy Wednesday. I hope you are having a good week.

2025 ERFSA Grant Awards

A shout out to the 2025 ERFSA Grant Award Winner and The Humboldt-Emeritus and Retired Faculty and Staff Association (ERFSA) Executive Committee for their work on this important program. The grant awardees are:

• Benjamin Anjewierden, Lecturer, Psychology Department, Project: Knowing Who Are and We Are Not: Impacts of (Inter) Group Composition on Deriving Epistemic Fulfillment from Groups

• Jason Hockaday, Lecturer, Native American Studies Department, Project: Designing a Tribal Funeral Home for Northwest California 

•  Nicole Kita, Lecturer, Art + Film Department, Project: Participant in the Stone Lithography Workshop at the Grafik House Print Studio & Maker Goods Studio Letterpress Printmaking Workshop in Kansas City, Missouri 

• Roberto Mónico, Assistant Professor, Critical Race, Gender and Sexualilty Studies Department, Project: Teaching Research Methods in Pelican Bay

• Pedro Peloso, Lecturer & Research Associate, Biological Sciences Department, Project: Determining the Identity of Cryptic Salamander Species in the California Floristic Province

• Tess Weathers, Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering Program, School of Engineering, Project: Impacts on Soil Microbial and Fungal Communities and Biofilm Formation during Meadow Restoration using Beaver Dams Analogs

The ERFSA grant awards are designed to support tenured-track faculty, lecturers, and staff with less than five years of employment at Cal Poly Humboldt. The goal of the grants is to assist recipients in expanding their professional qualifications.

Summer Session 2025 Tuition Increase Update

I wanted to ensure that faculty and staff are aware of a modest tuition increase for summer session 2025 so that you have accurate and up to date information to provide to students and their families. Recently an update was provided to the Student Fees Advisory Committee (SFAC) on the forthcoming increases to the summer session tuition fees. While SFAC serves as a consultative role pertaining to campus-based mandatory fees (category II) and miscellaneous course fees (category III), we felt it was important to share an important update related to 2025 summer tuition rates (category I). Additionally, we wanted to make sure our student leaders were aware prior to broader campus communications like this one. 

Cal Poly Humboldt will increase its Summer 2025 per-unit tuition rates to align with system-wide tuition increase. This adjustment follows a ten-year period without tuition increases. This 6% per-unit increase will help address rising operational costs and ensure the continued financial viability of our summer programs, enabling us to maintain and deliver high quality programming to our students.

The following table details the per-unit rates changes from Summer 2024 to Summer 2025:

If you have questions about this, please email OAAVP@humboldt.edu and I will make sure to direct you to the appropriate person to answer your questions.

The Individualized Degree Program (IDP) is Hiring a New Director

As you may remember, the inaugural IDP Director Rebecca Robertson is moving into a Dean position at College of the Redwoods this summer so we are conducting an internal search for our next director. The Director of the Individualized Degree Program (IDP) will lead the Interdisciplinary Studies - Individualized Degree Plan (IDP), a program that provides students with a flexible and customized degree pathway. Students in the program develop a unique, interdisciplinary degree plan that incorporates courses from multiple disciplines, preparing them for diverse academic, career, and lifelong learning goals.

The IDP curriculum includes a sequence of required core courses that introduce students to interdisciplinary thinking and approaches to inquiry, equipping them with the skills to integrate knowledge across fields and apply it to complex, real-world challenges. The program fosters a culture of interdisciplinarity, innovation, and student empowerment, supporting students as they take an active role in designing their education. 

To apply, use this link and click on Apply now. The application closes on April 20, 2025. 

I hope you have a wonderful rest of your week.

Jenn Capps