Following the end of a budget agreement between California Gov. Jerry Brown and UC President Janet Napolitano that began in May of 2015 and ended in 2016, the UC Regents will vote on a potential tuition increase of 2.5 percent annually at their upcoming meetings on Wednesday, Jan. 25 and Thursday, Jan. 26 at the UC San Francisco campus....
On Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, UC Riverside’s Media and Cultural Studies (MCS) faculty and staff announced the passing of MCS Dept. Lecturer Mark Bundy. Bundy, who joined UCR as a Ph.D. student after earning his Bachelor of Arts in English and Master of Arts in English with an emphasis on 20th Century American and British literature at California State...
Applications are now being accepted for the 2018-19 UC student regent position and are open to undergraduate, graduate and professional students on all UC campuses.
If chosen, the student will serve a one-year term as a voting member on the UC Board of Regents. Additionally, the student regent will attend all board and respective committee meetings, providing ample opportunity...
As high school seniors wait to hear back from where they may be spending the next four years of their educational career, early statistics show UC Riverside has experienced a 4.5 percent bump in freshman applications for fall 2017, amounting to more than 3,000 applications compared to the previous year. This comes as more students within California are applying...
The city of Riverside is considering imposing a ban on vaping in and near the outside of buildings and in public parks. Current regulations already disallow smoking tobacco cigarettes in these places.
On Monday, Dec. 12, the ban, proposed by current Riverside Councilman Chris MacArthur, was given a vote of support by the city’s land use committee. This proposal...
At approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, Paul D’Anieri announced his resignation from his post as Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Riverside effective June 30, 2017, bringing an end to what will be three years served in the position. D’Anieri will move into a role as a faculty member in UCR’s department of political science and...
The proposal to build the Dakota Access Pipeline through the Missouri River in North Dakota has been under protest due to the potential for environmental catastrophe and the pipeline’s threat posed toward the sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. Recently, the United States Army Corps of Engineers stated, “The Army has determined that additional discussion and analysis are...
At 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 21 in HUB 269, UCR’s Global Issues Forum and the World Affairs Council, the “premier forum in the Inland Empire for discussion of national and international subjects,” hosted a lecture by journalist and author Victoria Schofield to discuss the ongoing conflict in Kashmir, a region that Pakistan and India have been fighting over...
The last ASUCR senate meeting of the quarter was held on Tuesday, Nov. 22 and featured the passage of one senate resolution and three senate bills.
A resolution entitled, “Resolution in Mandating Family Housing Transitional Committee (FHTC) Meetings to be made Public on a Quarterly Basis,” was presented and authored by CHASS Senator Jose Cortez-Hernandez. The resolution asks that...
Two professors at UC Riverside, Howard Judelson and Jirka Simunek, have been chosen as two of the 391 fellows chosen annually by the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Fellows for this program are chosen by the AAAS Council, which recognizes contributors around the country for their work in innovation, education and scientific leadership.
Judelson, a professor...