May 28, 2004

Faculty Petition Protests Cal Poly Campus's Plan to Install PeopleSoft Software

By ANDREA L. FOSTER

More than 170 of the 1,000 professors and lecturers at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo have signed a petition protesting a plan by campus administrators to seek a $15-million loan to install PeopleSoft software.

At issue is a recent decision by Warren J. Baker, Cal Poly's president, to move forward with the software, which manages student records, even as other cash-strapped campuses in the California State University System are delaying the

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