Cal Maritime, which has a campus in Vallejo and operates a training ship, serves a strategically important niche in higher education.
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This story has been updated to include reporting from the Board of Trustees meeting on Tuesday.
A steep drop in enrollment has put Cal Maritime, the smallest of the California State University’s 23 campuses, on a path to merge with Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Under the plan, which will go before the Cal State board of trustees for discussion Tuesday, 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.
Recruiting out-of-state students and competing for federal dollars are two pieces of the turnaround plan, according to newly released details about the proposal.
But faculty at both institutions said they have…
