Students for Quality Education is an organization dedicated to creating a safe, just environment for students and faculty, especially marginalized students and faculty, at every CSU campus. Cal Poly, though, is an especially heinous example of a campus that fails its students in nearly every conceivable way. We find the current social, political, and academic conditions at Cal Poly to be unacceptable, and demand that administration actively listens and responds to our needs as students.

Here are Students for Quality Education's demands for Cal Poly:

Invest in student services and meaningfully support marginalized students, faculty, and staff:

Ensure that there are all-gender bathrooms in every building.
Convert 3 existing counselors to full-time tenure-track mental health counselors and hire a counselor with expertise in and experience supporting queer, transgender, Black, and Indigenous students’ mental health.
Provide $141,000 ($55,000 + $86,000) to match what was spent on security for Milo Yiannapolous in the past two years. $25,000 should go to the Black Academic Excellence Center and the Dream Center, $18,200 should go to the Women’s and Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies departments and the three Cross Cultural Centers.
Construct a building for the Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies  departments.
Provide a quality Indigenous student resource and cultural center for students and community.
Provide affordable housing for students of color and free housing for Indigenous students in Yakityutyu.
Provide ethnic-specific housing options for students of color, as many other institutions have done.
Implement a Women’s and Gender Studies major.
Hire one new tenure-track professor in both the Ethnic Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies departments.
Hire a full-time staff member to apply to grants for diversity, inclusivity, and equity funding.
Provide free access to on-campus venues for students, faculty, and clubs (Chumash, etc).
Funding for these services may not come from increased student fees; to offset the cost, athletic scholarships must be paid solely by grants, coaches and high-level administrators making more than $300,000 must take pay cuts to $300,000, and President Armstrong’s salary must be reduced to $300,000.
Require all Cal Poly students to take an upper and a lower division USCP course.

Prioritize student safety:

Institute a campus policy to remove perpetrators of sexual assault from campus immediately.
Institute a campus policy that immediately disbands all student organizations whose membership includes multiple perpetrators of sexual assault.
Establish a legal fund to aid survivors in getting justice.
Provide long-term mental health and academic support specifically for survivors.
Reinstate the campus escort service up to two miles off campus after 12am.
Allocate an additional $50,000 to SAFER based on the long-term increase in cases as reported in Mustang News.
Institute mandatory trainings for Greek life around issues of racism and consent, to be provided by third-party groups.
Change the Title IX process to provide transparency, including implementing a more accessible web site.
Funding for these services may not come from increased student fees; to offset the cost, athletic scholarships must be paid solely by grants, coaches and high-level administrators making more than $300,000 must take pay cuts to $300,000, and President Armstrong’s salary must be reduced to $300,000.

Cultivate a more Just relationship between Cal Poly and the world:

Formulate and publicize hiring and retention plans for faculty of color, particularly women and nonbinary people of color, in every department.
Make no new investments (through endowments) and allow no new sponsorships (including labs, career services, etc.) in weapons producers, fossil fuel companies, companies involved with the prison-industrial complex, and companies that do business with ICE.
Sell existing investments and divest sponsored lab spaces tied to these companies, as well as compass group, cal poly parking, and other companies privatizing Cal Poly, within one to two years.
Reinvest in clean, life-affirming solutions such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, sustainable agriculture, water efficiency, and more.
Institute a Socially Responsible Investment policy.
Create infrastructures to support career paths for both STEM and non-STEM students who do not want to go into "defense" work.

Finally, provide a written statement from President Armstrong recognizing the need for our demands, acknowledging the failure of his administration to address issues including racism and sexual assault on campus, and committing his administration to action.

Signed,

Students for Quality Education (SQE)

The Queer &/or Trans* People of Color Collective (QTPoCC)

Mujeres Club

The American Indian Student Association (AISA)

tRIOTa Feminist Activist Community

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)

El Movimiento Estudiantil Xicanx de Aztlán (MEXA)

Cal Poly Democrats

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cal Poly (NAACP)

Planned Parenthood Generation Action, Cal Poly (PPGA)

SLO Peace Coalition

Food Not Bombs