Women's rights apparently were not a sensitive issue in 1929. The legislature that year passed a bill, signed by the governor which prohibited matriculation by members of the female sex. The last girls graduated in 1930.
In 1928 a survey of the operations of the California Polytechnic was undertaken by the Deputy Director of Education, Sam H. Cohn and the Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Education, Julian A. McPhee. As a result of this study, the Agriculture Division at California Polytechnic was put under the direct supervision of the State Department of Education in 1931.