Department Gets New Name
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Two Cal Poly Pomona students pose with schoolchildren at a "Healthy Eats" nutrition presentation at the LA County Fair.
One of the departments in the Huntley College of Agriculture is undergoing a name change.
Effective this fall semester, the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science is changing to simply the Department of Nutrition and Food Science.
The name change would bring the department more into line with other nutrition departments in the California State University system, said Professor Bonny Burns-Whitmore, who proposed the change.
“We do not have any courses, minor, or major with the word ‘Human’ in front of nutrition,” Burns-Whitmore wrote in her proposal to the university’s Academic Senate.
However, the department does offer an option in nutrition science that contains the following emphases: animal nutrition, pre-professional, and nutrition and health, she said.
“It is confusing for student and faculty from other departments to learn that we offer an emphasis in ‘animal nutrition’ and yet our department name is ‘Human Nutrition and Food Science,’” Burns-Whitmore said.
The name change was recommended by the department faculty, the Academic Senate and Provost Sylvia Alva. President Coley approved the change last month.
The change is not expected to affect students within the department.
The department had already received approval from the CSU chancellor’s office to change the name of the foods and nutrition major and prefix (FN) this fall to simply nutrition (NTR). This is to distinguish it from the other major in the department, food science and technology (FST).