The Highlander has compiled a list from UCR Today of a few of the national accolades that UCR collected over the summer of 2014.
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July 23: For the third consecutive year, UCR is being recognized as a national top feeder school (ranked 31st this year) for graduates applying to the City Year program, which focuses on providing academic support to K-12 schools with insufficient staffing or in low-income neighborhoods.
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Aug. 4: UC Riverside was included in the 2015 edition of the Princeton Review’s annual college guide: “The Best 379 Colleges,” which includes a total of 375 flagship colleges with surveys from 130,000 enrolled college students.
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Aug 14: For the third consecutive year, UCR was placed (with a rank of 90 out of 173 schools this year) on Sierra Magazine’s “America’s Coolest Schools,” which compiles a list of the nation’s most eco-friendly colleges.
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Aug. 15: UCR landed on the nation’s Top 50 LGBT-Friendly Colleges and Universities, according to Campus Pride, a leading national nonprofit with the mission statement of creating a more inclusive college environment for LGBT students.
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Aug. 25: Washington Monthly, a 45-year-old nonprofit United States magazine specializing in politics and government, ranked UCR as no. 2 in its 10th annual College Ranking Survey for the second year in a row.
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Sep. 9: UCR was tied for 113th on a list by U.S. News and World Report, which included the best national universities to attend; the campus was also recognized for its undergraduate business program, diversity and academic quality-to-cost ratio.
