Following the resignation of UC Riverside Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Paul D’Anieri, Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox has chosen Dr. Cynthia K. Larive to fill the position of interim vice provost. Due to issues concerning poor planning for campus growth and a lack of transparency which led to D’Anieri’s resignation, Larive has said that she vows to improve communication...
The fourth ASUCR senate meeting was called to order on Wednesday, Feb. 22, at 6:16 p.m. with five members of the senate present at the time. Quorum was met at 6:40 p.m.
Once quorum was met, the senate proceeded to discuss the appointment of Sergio Robles as community director in the office of external affairs. Robles was approved in...
Winter quarter’s second state of the association meeting took place on Wednesday, Feb. 15 in the senate chambers, with the call to order being made at 6:17 p.m with nine senators present.
Senate resolution W17-010 was read aloud by Interim Acting President Arturo Gomez. The resolution stated ASUCR’s call for the city of Riverside to become a safe haven...
On Friday, Feb. 17 at 4 p.m. in HUB 355, Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA David E. Hayes-Bautista came to speak at UCR for a School of Public Policy (SPP) event and book signing titled “Metrics for Latino Wellness Management in an Increasingly Racially Ambiguous...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited the White House on Monday, Feb. 13 to meet with President Donald Trump. Among the topics discussed at this meeting was the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
During his campaign, Trump said on Twitter that he was going to “tear it up” if he couldn’t renegotiate it in favor of the U.S....
In Issue 16, the Highlander interviewed Grecia Marquez-Nieblas, coordinator of UC Riverside’s food pantry, R’Pantry, which has been working to combat food insecurity on campus for almost two years, to discuss hunger at UCR. However, food insecurity among college students is not just an issue isolated to UCR. According to the University of California’s “Student Food Access and Security...
At 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 15 in INTS 1113, UCR’s School of Public Policy (SPP) hosted a seminar entitled, “We Have to Actually Fix Things” featuring businessman Joseph Sanberg, in which he spoke about fixing social justice issues that he has continued to witness since he was a child.
Sanberg is the co-founder of the online bank Aspiration.com...
UC Riverside’s Center of Ideas and Society was awarded $500,000 in 2014 from the Andrew Mellon Foundation and $250,000 of this grant will be used toward funding the “Advancing Intercultural Studies” (AIS) project. Due to a perceived lack of practices of “civil discourse, reasoned debate and respect for the view of others,” the project aims to address the most...
On Monday, Feb. 13, Associate Professor and Chair of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Department Muhammed Ali organized an event entitled “Conversation on the Immigration Ban,” which featured speakers including UCR professors and administrators to discuss President Donald Trump’s executive order (EO) that banned refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for up to...
UC Riverside has been awarded a $376,191 grant to fund the project, “The Sherman Indian Museum Digital Collection: Increasing Access to American Indian Off-Reservation Boarding School Archives.” The grant, ”Digitizing Special Collections and Archives,” was awarded on Wednesday, Jan. 4 by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In 1903,...