Soraya Coley Named the Next President of Cal Poly Pomona

Coley, Soraya1The board of trustees of California State University has appointed Soraya M. Coley as the next president of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. When she takes office by the beginning of 2015, she will be the sixth president of the university and the first woman to hold the position. Cal Poly Pomona enrolls about 21,000 undergraduate students and about 1,500 graduate students. African Americans make up just 3 percent of the undergraduate student body.