The State University of New York Polytechnic Institute, commonly referred to as SUNY Polytechnic Institute or SUNY Poly, is a public research university with campuses in the town of Marcy in the Utica-Rome metropolitan area and Albany, New York.
 Founded in 1966 using classrooms at a primary school, SUNY Poly is New York's public polytechnic college.
 The Marcy campus, formerly the SUNY Institute of Technology, has a Utica, New York mailing address and was established in 1987.
 The Albany campus was formerly a component of the University at Albany, established in January 2003.
From 2011 to 2016, Jon C. Strauss (Jon Calvert Strauss) was the President of Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.
 He replaced Molly Easo Smith, who sat as the eleventh president of the College.
 Previously, Dr. Strauss was the interim dean of engineering at Texas Tech University.
 Some call him the father of Responsibility Center Management (RCM) which he helped to develop at the University of Pennsylvania.
 He is a former member and current consultant of the National Science Board.
 Before his time at Tech, he served as President of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in 2008-2009.
 He accepted this appointment from former President and BGI Co-Founder Gifford Pinchot III.
 Strauss was the fourth president of Harvey Mudd College, serving in that position from March 1997 to June 2006.
 Prior to Harvey Mudd, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Strauss also served as the thirteenth president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute from 1985 to 1994.
 Over the years Strauss has also served as Senior Vice-President of the University of Southern California and Vice President for Budget and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania as well.
 Strauss received his PhD in electrical engineering from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, his masters in physics from the University of Pittsburgh, and his bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
 He is married to Jean Anne Sacconaghi Strauss, a writer, activist and filmmaker.
 He has four children: daughters Susan MacQuarrie and Stephanie Annan from his first marriage, and two sons, Kristoffer Calvert Strauss and Jonathon Samuel Louis Strauss.
Stephen Salisbury III (1835 – 1905), also referred to as Stephen Salisbury, Jr., graduated from Harvard College in 1856.
 The son of a wealthy landowner, Salisbury helped manage the family's extensive properties and businesses in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
 Like his father, Salisbury served one term in the State Senate, was president of the Worcester National Bank, and directed the Worcester & Nashua Railroad.
 He was a trustee of the Worcester City Hospital and the Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, focusing on the instruction and research of technical arts and applied sciences.
Ichabod Washburn (1798–1868) was a church deacon and industrialist from Worcester County, Massachusetts, United States.
 His financial endowments led to the naming of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas and the foundation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Established in 1985, The Center for Wireless Information Network Studies (CWINS), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, is a compact wireless research laboratory with a successful history of research alliances with other industrial and academic groups.
 The center has performed research for government agencies and has close ties with the world-leading organizations in the wireless industry.
Bill Kernen (born August 1, 1948 in Boise, Idaho) is the retired former head coach of the California State University, Bakersfield baseball team.
 Prior to that position he was the head coach of the California State University, Northridge baseball team from 1989–1995, and the pitching coach for the California State University, Fullerton baseball team from 1978–1982 and 1986-87.
 Following this he was the pitching coach at University of Illinois from 1987-88.
 He was the pitching coach at North Carolina State from 2001-1003.
 Before founding and building the program at CS Bakersfield, he was again an assistant at CS Fullerton in 2006-2007.
 In addition to his baseball coaching achievements, Kernen is also an accomplished playwright, having been produced on the New York stage seven times.
 He is the producer, writer and director of a short film made in 2006.
 Kernen was a professional baseball player in the Baltimore Oriole organization from 1970-72.
Emilio Sacristan Rock (born November 7, 1965) is a respected Mexican Researcher, Inventor and Entrepreneur in the field of medical technology.
 He is currently Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Director and Founder of the National Center for Medical Instrumentation and Imaging Research, CI3M, at the UAM-Iztapalapa, Mexico City, and Mexican National Researcher level III.
 He holds a B.S.(87) in EE and M.S.(90) and Ph.D.(93) degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
 He has been Research Assistant Professor at WPI (1993–1995), Associate Researcher at University of Massachusetts Medical School (1988-1995), and Visiting Professor at Yale School of Medicine (2001–2002) and Stanford University (2009).
 His research focuses on instrumentation for anesthesia and critical care as well as Magnetic Resonance Imaging, and is author of over 70 research articles and 22 international patents.
California State University, Bakersfield (often abbreviated CSUB or shortened to CSU Bakersfield) is a public university located in Bakersfield, California, United States, and was founded in 1965.
 CSUB opened in 1970 on a 375 acre campus, becoming the 19th school in the 23-campus California State University system.
 The university offers 91 different Bachelor's degrees, 20 types of Master's degrees, and 12 teaching credentials.
 The university does not confer Doctoral degrees.
Dr. Domenico Grasso (b. 1955 Worcester, Massachusetts) is Provost of the University of Delaware (UD).
 Prior to holding this position, he was Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College at the University of Vermont (UVM).
 He did his secondary school education at St. John's High School (Massachusetts) and holds a B.Sc.
 from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. from Purdue University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
 He is a registered Professional Engineer in the states of Connecticut and Texas, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

Question: While Worcester Polytechnic Institute is a private research university, what is California State University, Bakersfield?
Answer: public university