Chancellor Town Hall Meeting
During his quarterly town hall meeting on June 5, Chancellor White presented an overview of the current state of UCR, investments toward UC institutions and accompanying initiatives in the area of social reform. Chancellor...
Riverside Named Intelligence Community of 2012
On June 8, 2012, the Intelligence Community Forum (ICF) named Riverside as the Intelligent Community of 2012 at Steiner Film Studios in Brooklyn, New York. Riverside is the first city in the U.S. to...
UCR Task Force Update
On June 4, the UCR Task Force on Speech and Assembly convened for their second meeting of the year to discuss the draft of the UC Protest Guidelines and statements from accompanying UC campuses....
News in Brief
UC Board of Regents Appoint UC Provost
The former dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Aimee Dorr will be serving as the next University of California provost and executive vice president...
UCLA’s Anderson school may end state funding for MBA program
UCLA's Faculty Legislative Assembly has voted in favor of a proposal which would eliminate state funding for the Anderson School of Management program. Approval from UC President Mark G. Yudof and the Academic Senate...
UCSF sets example for open access to research
UC San Francisco (UCSF) has become the largest scientific institution in the nation and the first UC campus to allow for public access to its research publications. The university, which publishes around 4,500 scholarly...
Berkeley chancellor opposes 10% cap on out-of-state enrollment
UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau is one of the first high-ranking officials to express his opposition to a proposal aimed at capping out-of-state UC enrollment at 10 percent. The proposal was introduced by California...
Polls show majority in support of Gov. Brown’s tax initiative
Recent Los Angeles Times/University of Southern California poll results revealed mixed news for Governor Brown as support for his proposed tax initiative has declined in recent months, although the proposal still retains a majority...
Year in review: news
Increased tensions in student-administrative relations and improvements to the university’s stature have dominated UC Riverside’s headlines this past year.
In January, the UC Board of Regents convened for a series of meetings at UC Riverside....
ASUCR criticizes UCOP assessment fee
During the ASUCR senate meeting on May 30, the legality of the recently implemented UCOP Funding Stream Initiative was questioned by both the senate and public alike. The Initiiative enacts a 1.69 percent assessment...