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Resnicks donate $20 million to Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo

March 1, 2024

Stewart and Lynda Resnick

By KAREN VELIE

After receiving a $20 million donation, Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo is honoring the donors by naming the new facility the “Lynda and Stewart Resnick Student Success Center.” The center will prioritize personal and professional development as key components of  the university’s learn by doing philosophy.

The 25,000 square-foot Lynda and Stewart Resnick Student Success Center will feature a professional development center for career services, programs that support Cal Poly’s growing numbers of first-generation students, and student diversity and belonging cultural centers.

“Student success happens when universities align professional purpose with personal identity,” said Keith Humphrey, Cal Poly’s vice president for student affairs. “That is exactly the conditions Cal Poly is creating within the Lynda and Stewart Resnick Student Success Center. I’m excited for our students to amplify their success when we open the doors to this transformational new facility in the core of campus.”

For years, Beverly Hills billionaires Stewart and Lynda Resnick have been eyeing influence over management of the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. However, more than 70% of the public voted against their plan to prioritize the basin.

 


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Oh no! People with more money than us. I guess I’ll have to blindly hate them. Check your morality at the door.


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Cal Poly students should rise up, protest and demand the uni return the money to those sleazeballs.


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Donations from the water-banking Resnicks have to have strings attached.


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People should not be fooled by this PR stunt.


In another era, they would be run out of town with pitchforks.


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This now makes him a good water pirate?


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The massive endowments that these colleges get always amaze me. The quality of an education like that offered at Poly has declined over the decades as the overhead and costs continue to skyrocket- way beyond inflation rates.

They continue to be a revenue source for the state because a large contingent of people still believe that they offer a product of value. In some cases they do , but for many there is scant return on investment. Most grads don’t end up working in the field they were trained for and the college now offers “degrees” in anything it can find.

I met a recent grad who minored in Sales. That’s right – a degree in Sales! Can you imagine?

Wine and pot growing and other hokey majors are being offered at these state colleges as they begin to feel their relevance in the future start to slide.

Like many institutions in our world, they lumber into uncertain future because so many folks reflexively just sign on without any real critical thinking about the practicality or benefits.

Less than ideal economic conditions are coming and tightening wallets may force many to actually think about the value of what they are buying.

As for the donors. what they are trying to achieve escapes me. Giving money to institutions awash in tax dollars? No thanks


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“Student success happens when universities align professional purpose with personal identity,” What in the word salad hell does this even mean?

I’d be much more impressed if they gave their money quietly to a food bank.


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“Student success happens when universities align professional purpose with personal identity.” This might be code for tutoring the kids from farmworker families that the Resnick’s have supported through the Resnick farmworker based charter high schools that provide community college degrees and scholarships to Cal Poly.”


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Cal poly should honor the 70% instead.


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Sounds like Cal Poly drank the water. Next there will be a School of Water Banking and Stewart will get an Honorary Degree.


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