,, ___________‘ unit of about 240 students. The cafeteria erected for the first unit will be turned to other uses. DEGREE CURRICULA California Polytechnic was first established in 1901 as a state vocational school, no level of instruction being specified. The high school level was adopted by the first administration at the opening of school in 1903 as meeting the needs of the greatest number of persons at that time. As years passed, the level of vocational and technical instruction was increased; vocational training on a high school level became the rule rather than the exception in the district or union school, and the program at California Polytechnic advanced into the technical college level. This natural trend was confirmed and recognized by the State Board of Education in 1940, with authorization of the granting of the Bachelor of Science degree by the California Polytechnic on the completion of a subsequently-approved group of curricula in the various fields of agriculture and industry. This move has been followed by widespread approval of educators concerned with the tremenduous need for practical education, by parents and by students. First Freshman students were accepted in this new group of curricula in the fall of 1940, while advanced students who have had preliminary work may be graduated with the first authorized class to receive the baccalaureate degree in 1942. Favorable comments on the action of the board have not been confined to other college administrators within California, to high school principals and student counselors, students or parents, but have come from a widespread national area. Prior to and following the national convention of the American Vocational Association in San Francisco in December, many national vocational leaders visited the California Polytechnic campus at San Luis Obispo, and a number at San Dimes. -4-