Rachel Fernflores, Ph.D.
Faculty Fellow, Director of Semester Conversion
Professor of Philosophy
rfernflo@calpoly.edu
(805) 756-2330
Office: 047-34R
Dr. Rachel Fernflores, professor of philosophy, is serving as the director of semester conversion. Dr. Fernflores has a long history of shared governance and curricular reform. As chair of the Academic Senate for three years, she successfully led several curriculum-related projects, including bringing general education back into the purview of the Academic Senate, creating the General Education Governance Board, and creating a curriculum appeals process. More recently, she chaired several general education area C workgroups for GE 2020. She also has administrative service, serving as interim chief of staff in the Office of the President, along with multiple terms as a faculty fellow in the Office of the Provost and the Office of the President. In addition, Dr. Fernflores chaired a task force charged with studying conversion from quarters to semesters in consultation with campus constituents in 2012. For that effort, she studied the conversion process at several universities, including CSU Los Angeles, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Ohio University, learning from each process what might work for Cal Poly.
Aaron Keen, Ph.D.
Faculty Fellow, Assistant Director for Semester Conversion
Professor of Computer Science
akeen@calpoly.edu
(805) 756-2926
Office: 014-228
Dr. Aaron Keen, professor of computer science, is assisting her during this process. Dr. Keen has been involved in several curricular reform and assessment efforts in his 20 years at Cal Poly. He has chaired the Computer Science and Software Engineering Curriculum Committee and served on the College of Engineering Curriculum Committee since 2009, becoming chair of the latter in 2019. He also serves on the Academic Senate Curriculum Committee and previously was a member of the General Education Governance Board. He has been recognized for his efforts in the classroom as an awardee of the 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award.
For general questions, please email us at semester-conversion@calpoly.edu.
