UC students taking summer school this year can breathe a little easier knowing that tuition will not increase during their upcoming sessions. UC President Janet Napolitano announced last Wednesday that there will be no tuition hikes for the summer, as a “gesture of good faith” that her ongoing negotiations with Gov. Jerry Brown will lead to increased state appropriations...
Thousands of students lined up on Aberdeen Drive to receive a free UCR sweatshirt from ASUCR on Wednesday as part of the R’Gear initiative, a program designed to bolster school pride by providing free sweatshirts for each of UCR’s 4,000 freshmen.
The initiative was one of ASUCR President Nafi Karim’s campaign promises last year, as he noticed a “lack of...
After a 12-day relationship-building trip to China, Dean Yunzeng Wang and Director of International Relations Steve Chen of the UCR School of Business Administration (SoBA) procured both goodwill and a $100,000 endowment from various universities. Seven other UCR affiliates, including Chancellor Kim Wilcox, also participated in the trip, which ended on Jan. 16.
Given by Xiangdong Le, chairman of Sichuan...
UCR’s School of Public Policy will be launching the Blum Poverty Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty in the fall of 2015. The brainchild of former Chairman of the UC Board of Regents Richard Blum, the initiative will aim to educate students about issues relating to poverty both globally and in inland Southern California in the hopes of improving...
The University Human Resources (HR) building, located on University Avenue by the 215 Freeway, caught on fire at approximately 7:25 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The building was evacuated and no one was harmed.
According to Tim Bueller, a media relations representative of the Riverside FireDepartment (RFD), the department received a call at approximately 7:30 a.m.from the building’s single occupant....
The UC Riverside School of Public Policy will launch an initiative in fall 2015 that will educate about poverty-related issues globally and in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
The Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty is possible thanks to a $250,000 donation from former UC Board of Regents chair Richard Blum, and matching donations from both the UC Office...
UCR Free and For Sale and UCR Craigslist are some of the few Facebook groups UCR students might turn to sell merchandise — particularly Heat Music Festival 2015 tickets, which are often resold at a higher-than-usual price. Though the Highlander Union Building (HUB) currently does not have any regulatory powers when it comes to ticket scalping, some question whether...
Representing 240,000 students from across the UC system, the UC student regents held an open forum on Feb. 11 in HUB 367 to present their main initiatives for the year and to recruit students who will fill their shoes in the future.
2014-15 UC Student Regent Sadia Saifuddin has voting power on the UC Board of Regents. UCLA senior Abraham...
The Riverside City Council voted on Feb. 10 to increase funding for library materials and the Riverside School of the Arts by $50,000 each this year as part of several supplemental appropriations from the city’s general fund, totaling just over $4 million.
Members of the council and public alike showed support for the funding boost. “Two-hundred-some thousand people like me...
In light of the recent measles outbreak at Disneyland, the UC has announced that it will now require screening for tuberculosis and vaccination for measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, meningococcus, tetanus and whooping cough by 2017 for enrolled students. Currently, the UC only requires students to be vaccinated for hepatitis B.
According to UC Office of the President Media Specialist...