By Gabby Roscuata, May 12, 2026
Cal Poly Pomona’s Associated Students, Inc. approved adding changing tables and high chairs to ASI-managed facilities to help student parents at its meeting May 7.
After inserting baby changing stations in bathrooms at ASI-managed facilities, including the Bronco Student Center lower level, Ursa Major and the BRIC, ASI Executive Director Liz Roosa Millar announced plans to add high chairs at the BSC.
“These are small but meaningful improvements that reflect ASI’s commitment to removing everyday barriers so students can move and more fully participate in campus life,” Roosa Millar said.
The Board of Directors also approved revisions of the BRIC facility manual. College of Agriculture Senator and Senator Pro Tempore Madison Navarro said the updates better align with the facility’s operations, risk management practices and evolving needs of CPP’s campus.
The previous manual was last approved by former ASI Attorney General Joshua Ebiner April 26, 2018.
The revision includes a history section, reinstating the BRIC as a student-funded facility. Additionally, the updates strengthened alignment with CPP and CSU policies regarding free speech, alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and nondiscrimination policies, according to Navarro.
It also updated attire standards, specifically making its swimwear policy more inclusive to users, improving safety and accessibility. In addition, there is now an enforced check-in process to increase safety and control measures.
“These changes are intended to reduce risk, improve operational consistency and enhance the experience for all users while maintaining alignment with the BRIC’s student-funded mission,” Navarro said.
Furthermore, the Board of Directors approved budget augmentation for three CPP programs.
First was for the Apiary, a beekeeping program that teaches students hands-on about honey production, pollination and its ecosystem.
The second was the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies which focuses on creating a sustainable future, using regenerating systems that support environmental change, according to CPP’s website.
Lastly, the Rocket Powered Lander club’s project will be showcased at the Open Sauce convention, which brings engineers and creators together through panels and workshops.
The student-led Green Initiative Fund will fund just over $4,000 to the apiary and close to $15,000 to the Living Waters Project at the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. The National Partnership for New Americans will fund $10,000 for CPP’s rocket-powered lander project.
It is unknown what the Living Waters project will do, but landscape architecture firm IMA Design said the center includes “passive heating and cooling systems, interdisciplinary aquaponics pods, a hydroponic greenhouse, a permaculture garden and examples of green architecture.”
The Board of Directors announced Dean of Students Weston Prisbrey is moving from his role as dean and university adviser into a new position in the employer and labor relations department after four years in the student affairs division at CPP, with the change effective June 1. It is not currently known who will replace him.
“This decision comes with a full heart.” Prisbrey said. “Serving as dean of students, then as your university adviser and working alongside student leaders like you has been one of the greatest honors of my career. The relationships we’ve built, the challenges we’ve faced together and the ways we’ve supported one another have left a lasting mark on me.”
The next Board of Directors meeting is scheduled to take place in the England Evans room May 14.
