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The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, often referred to as Cal Poly Pomona (see naming), is a public university located in Pomona, California, United States. The university is one of two polytechnics in the 23-member California State University system.

Cal Poly Pomona began as a satellite campus of the California Polytechnic School (today known as Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) in 1938 when a completely equipped school and farm in the city of San Dimas were donated by Charles Voorhis and his son Jerry Voorhis. The satellite campus, initially called the Cal Poly-Voorhis Unit, grew further in 1949 when an 813-acre horse ranch in the neighboring city of Pomona became part of the school grounds. The ranch belonged to retired businessman Will Keith Kellogg who had originally deeded it to the University of California in 1932. Cal Poly Pomona, then known as “Cal Poly Kellogg-Voorhis Unit”, and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo continued operations under a unified administrative control until they became unaffiliated in 1966. Cal Poly Pomona has transitioned from an agricultural two-year technical college with an inaugural enrollment of 110 all-men students into a master’s university currently offering multiple educational programs in 9 academic units while having a coeducational enrollment of over 20,000 students as of fall 2009. Cal Poly Pomona is one among a small group of polytechnic universities in the United States having a curriculum emphasizing the study and application of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

U.S. News & World Report's 2010 issue of "America's Best Colleges" placed the university as the 4th most ethnically diverse master’s public university in the west and 5th with the most international students. The demographic composition of the student body is 29.7% Asian American, 27.2% Hispanic American, 25.1% White American, 3.9% African American, 0.3% Native American, and 8.5% ethnicity unreported or unknown. Cal Poly Pomona has over 1,000 visa-bearing international students who comprise 5.3% of the total student body.

Once known strictly as a commuter school, in recent years Cal Poly Pomona has undertaken an effort to increase its academic standings while also evolving into a more traditional university. The university has raised admissions standards, increased on-campus student residences, built new facilities and expanded its undergraduate research opportunities. Its sports teams are known as the Cal Poly Pomona Broncos and play in the NCAA Division II as part of the California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA). The Broncos sponsor 12 varsity sports and have won 14 NCAA national championships.

Campus

Cal Poly Pomona is situated in Pomona, California, a largely suburban city part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. The city of Pomona is located in the eastern portion of Los Angeles County and borders the neighboring county of San Bernardino to the east. The university’s 1,438 acre (5.82 km²) campus make it second largest in the California State University system, a figure which includes various facilities scattered throughout Southern California such as a 53-acre (210,000 m2) ranch in Santa Paula, California, 25 acres (100,000 m2) at Spadra Ranch, and the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in West Los Angeles. In addition, the main Pomona campus is home to a 31-hectare (0.31 km2) ecological reserve known as the Voorhis Ecological Reserve. Although part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the university is in close proximity to two other large metropolitan and culturally-defined regions, the Inland Empire and Orange County. The university has a local-serving area, defined as an geographical region surrounding the campus, roughly bounded by the San Gabriel Mountains to the north, the city of Chino Hills, Interstate 605 to the east, and Interstate 15 to the west. Cal Poly Pomona's campus buildings vary in age and style from the Mission Revival Kellogg Horse Stables and the Kellogg House (suggesting the Spanish colonial heritage of Southern California) built in the 1920s; the modernist box-like portion of the library completed in 1969; to contemporary dormitories, engineering, science and library-expansion facilities completed in the early 21st century. Leisure and recreational locations include a Rose Garden dating back to the Kellogg Ranch years, a 58,000 square feet (5,400 m2) Japanese Garden built in the Summer of 2003 and designed by landscape architecture professor emeritus Takeo Uesugi, and the Kellogg House designed by prominent architect Myron Hunt (who also designed the Rose Bowl and The Huntington Library). Kellogg’s House features grounds which were initially landscaped by Charles Gibbs Adams but were later completed by Florence Yoch & Lucile Council. Contrasting some of this architecturally prominent facilities, there are various portable buildings on campus which are used to accommodate the growing population of recent decades. Cal Poly Pomona houses the International Polytechnic High School; a college preparatory high school entirely comprised of portable buildings and located on what used to be a parking lot.

Cal Poly Pomona's dominant landmark is a futurist-style administrative facility known as the CLA Building which was designed by Antoine Predock and opened in 1993. The building’s peculiar shape (standing out by a triangular-shaped “skyroom” atop its eight-story tower Erica Perez (March 23, 2010). "Iconic Cal Poly Pomona building poses earthquake hazard". California Watch. Retrieved 22 August 2010. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)) has become a symbol of the university; in addition, its close location to film studios based in the Hollywood borough of Los Angeles have prompted its inclusion in motion pictures such as Gattacca and Impostor. Nevertheless, the CLA Building has been suffering from various problems since its completion. The building suffers from water leakage, and connections and beams at the building do not meet California earthquake safety standards. CLA Building is located atop the San José Hills Fault and its structural stability has been put to question in the event of a major earthquake as it holds the second-highest seismic “risk score” of all CSU buildings with as score of 72.94/100. The building needs so much work and investment to overcome its major flaws that university officials have contemplated razing it.

Academic and Research Facilities

The W. K. Kellogg Arabian Horse Center is an academic and research facility serving one of the 22 terms and conditions to the donation of the Kellogg ranch by maintaining Kellogg’s purebred Arabian horses and their breeding program. Another academic facility highlighting the Kellogg legacy is the Horse Stables (also known as University Plaza) which houses a small research library specializing in equine studies along with offices for student services and various campus organizations such as the annual Cal Poly Rose Float. One of the most prominent academic buildings, standing centrally located within the core campus, is the 300,000 sq ft (28,000 m2) Cal Poly Pomona University Library. This central library houses over 3 million items and serves as the most important center for scholarly pursuits on campus. Built in 1961, the library underwent a major renovation and expansion completed in the summer of 2008 at a cost of $58.5 million dollars.

Campus Sustainability

The university has actively sought to reduce carbon emissions and energy usage on campus, implementing _____. The Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies is a research facility, built adjacent to an old landfill, stressing sustainable technology and agriculture. The Lyle Center uses solar-powered dormitories, aquaculture ponds, and organic gardens while providing an environmentally-sustainable housing accommodation for 22 graduate students. The Cal Poly Pomona campus also contains a rainforest greenhouse, a California ethnobotany garden, and an aquatic biology center collectively known as BioTrek which provides environmental education to all academic levels.

Student life

Cal Poly Pomona’s large commuter student body and location amidst a suburban sprawl and an industrial hub has defined the image of the university as one where students come to class and leave with no much student involvement or participation in extra-curricular activities on campus. Hence, the