Contact

For general questions, please email us at semester-conversion@calpoly.edu.
 

Click here to learn more about office hours for winter 2025.

 

Semester Conversion Team

Team motto: "Keep calm. Convert on."

Rachel Fernflores, Ph.D.

 

Director and Project Manager 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 and project manager 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.

 

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Haley Raymer

Administrative Support Coordinator
Semester Conversion Project
hraymer@calpoly.edu
 

Haley Raymer is the newest member of the semester conversion project team. She serves as the administrative support coordinator for co-curricular project needs. Haley has previous administrative experience in non-profit work and the healthcare industry. She is excited to be a part of the Cal Poly team to support the university, students, staff, faculty, and community through this unique transition.

 

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Shannon Sullivan-Danser, M.A.

Semester Conversion and General Education Program Coordinator
Academic Programs and Planning
ssulliva@calpoly.edu
(805) 756-2747
 

Shannon Sullivan-Danser is the General Education coordinator within the Office of Academic Programs and Planning and has joined the semester conversion team to support curricular and communication projects. In particular, she has supported two Academic Senate curriculum committees — the General Education Governance Board and the Academic Senate Curriculum Committee — as changes to degree programs and courses have been proposed. She has also worked closely with the semester conversion director and project manager to create and design comparison tools to support faculty, staff, and students to communicate these changes. She is a double alumna from Cal Poly, earning honors in her graduate and undergraduate degrees in English.

 

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