As of Wednesday, the school formerly known as Humboldt State University is a polytechnic college. Cal Poly Humboldt is the third state university to bear that designation and the first in Northern ...

Humboldt State has a new name and an updated mission as a polytechnic university, a move aimed at increasing sagging enrollment at an underused campus with high-demand STEM education and research ...

Goodbye Humboldt State University, and hello Cal Poly Humboldt. It isn’t just a name change, though — the school expects to start running new programs in 2023.