Cal Maritime’s 761 students would blend into San Luis Obispo’s 22,000-person student body with the goal of saving on overhead and ultimately attracting more students to the maritime academy.

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. The full board of trustees greenlighted the merger proposal Thursday, a decision designed to keep the maritime academy in operation following enrollment declines that ...

Coming July 1, Vallejo’s Cal Maritime Academy and San Luis Obispo’s California Polytechnic State University will operate as a single university: Cal Poly. The name change — Cal Maritime ...