Orfalea Business
The Magazine for Cal Poly College of Business
End of Year Giving: How You Can Support the Orfalea College of Business
Support to the Orfalea College of Business helps students experience Cal Poly’s trademark Learn by Doing approach, as students do in the Industrial Technology & Packaging program. (Photo: Pat Pemberton)
December 13, 2023
With 2023 quickly winding down, there’s still time […]
Marketing student founded Lucky Lucky Studios after surviving serious accident.
Welcome Back!
September 21, 2023
After a quiet summer, campus was once again teeming with activity as returning students, incoming freshmen and transfer students arrived in San Luis Obispo for the 2023-24 academic year.
The Orfalea College of Business welcomed 991 new students this year, which includes 764 first-time freshman and a record 227 new […]
I am pleased to present this edition of Orfalea Business. This issue emphasizes some of the many ways our students have embraced Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing ethos and features our faculty expertise, alumni, diversity, and more.
If You Build It: Real Estate Initiative Combines Disciplines to Reflect Industry Process.
The Summer Undergraduate Research Program pairs students with faculty mentors on relevant research.
Finance professor Cyrus Ramezani regularly reminded his Orfalea College of Business team that they stood out.
Kimberley Bhunu took a giant leap coming to Cal Poly. The Harare, Zimbabwe, resident — who attended high school 7,000 miles from home in France — traveled halfway across the world to attend the Learn by Doing campus in 2018, sight-unseen, and play tennis for the NCAA team.
A Day for Celebration
The Arredondo sisters, from left, Erica, Stephanie and Clarissa, pose for a portrait shortly before commencement. The sisters, whose ages range from 21 to 25, graduated from Cal Poly on the same weekend. (Photo: Jay Thompson)
August 4, 2023
The Arredondo family from Santa Maria had a busy graduation weekend at […]
As an undocumented child in Guadalupe, Calif, Yesenia Beas was afraid to tell friends or school staffers about her status, unsure whom she could trust.
