As waves of class enrollment open up from Feb. 10 to early March, UCR students are once again heading into the class-hunting season. In a big break from the historical 16-unit cap constraint, the first pass enrollment unit cap is set to increase to 17 units effective this spring quarter of 2014.
In response to Gov. Jerry Brown’s call last...
As part of a UCR public policy seminar series, Director of Biotechnology at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) Gregory Jaffe gave a lecture on the hotly debated topic of genetically engineered (GE) foods — foods derived from organisms with artificially modified DNA — and the way they are regulated in the United States. His lecture,...
Interim Director of UCR’s Academic Resource Center (ARC) and Assistant Vice Provost of the Office of Undergraduate Education Christine Ann Victorino reports that the center is planning a 40 percent decrease in drop-in tutoring sessions in favor of an appointment-based system for the upcoming spring quarter. But ASUCR senators Sanam Rashidi and Jessica Moncayo are concerned that this may...
A total of 375 UCR undergraduates enrolled in UC Riverside online courses for the 2014 winter quarter, with 11 additional students coming from other UCs and eight who were non-UC students, according to statistics from the UCR Office of the Registrar.
Funded by a $10 million state allocation, the Innovative Learning Technology Initiative (ILTI) extends the scope of online hybrid...
An anonymous donor will give up to $20,000 to the Golden Key International Honour Society and Student Alumni Association (SAA) to support UCR’s third annual Dance Marathon, if the co-sponsors can raise enough money to match his or her donation, according to Jane Kim, executive director of Dance Marathon 2014. The marathon provides funding for the Guardian Scholars, a...
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Dallas Rabenstein recently announced the selection of Yunzeng Wang as the new dean of the School of Business Administration (SoBA). Wang, who previously served as interim dean of SoBA, will now serve a five-year position at UCR’s business school.
“Dean Wang is an energetic leader with a keen understanding of the School’s (sic) strengths and...
On Jan. 29, 2014, ASUCR Elections Director Chris Sanchez announced that he will ban the political party name CR from being used in the upcoming 2013-2014 elections due to its phonetic similarities to UC Riverside’s own name. Since its nascent rise in 2012-13, CR has dominated the past elections with its members wielding control of more than three-fourths of...
Michael Drake, chancellor of UC Irvine, has announced that he will become president of Ohio State University, effective June 30. Drake will be the first African American president of the university.
“There is no more impactful university in the United States and in many ways in the world,” Drake said. “It is the center of the country, in many ways...
For the third consecutive year, UC Riverside has earned a place on the Princeton Review’s annual list of best-value colleges.
“I am pleased to see that UC Riverside is once again represented on The Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges list,” Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs James Sandoval said in a statement to UCR Today. “It is further proof that a...
In the wake of a recently announced strike vote, the UC Office of the President will resume negotiations with the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME 3299).
“UC’s newest wage and staffing proposals are a welcome sign, but they still fall far short of what they’ve granted to other UC workers and perpetuate an ever...