The UC Board of Regents confirmed Jane Close Conoley, dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, as the acting chancellor of UC Riverside during a special meeting on Nov. 27.
Effective Dec. 31, her appointment was preceded by the approval of Nicolas B. Dirks, Columbia University’s executive vice president, as the new chancellor of UC Berkeley, who...
BCOE Senator Sean Fahmian criticized CHASS Senator Nafi Karim for failing to deliver sufficient snacks to students during finals week of last quarter — as part of the snack wagon initiative — revealing early tensions between the two presidential candidates in the 2014-15 elections season.
During the public forum period, Leo Torres, a fourth-year bioengineering major and the president of...
Sammie Ayoub, a third-year political science and international affairs major, was at the center of a highly contentious discussion at the ASUCR senate meeting last Wednesday evening, when two students used public forum to make the senate aware of Ayoub’s alleged sexual misconduct during his time at Riverside City College (RCC).
Ayoub, who enrolled in UC Riverside this winter 2018...
As the Inland Empire (IE) continues to experience population growth, the demand for qualified educators has reached a critical point, posing significant challenges for local schools. Assistant Dean and Director of Teacher Education, Dr. Frances Valdovinos, highlights the plans for newly acquired funding, awarded to the University of California, Riverside (UCR) School of Education (SOE) to help remedy the...
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The second-to-last senate meeting of winter quarter commenced at 6:16 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1.
During the Green Campus Action Plan’s (GCAP) report, Undergraduate Sustainability Director Bryan Martinez announced the addition of five new solar umbrellas on the HUB’s terrace. The umbrellas — instead of solar tables which were too expensive at $10,000 per table — will arrive between...
On May 8, 2025, the street surrounding University of California, Riverside’s (UCR) campus was renamed and dedicated in honor of the university’s ninth chancellor, Kim Wilcox, who has devoted 12 years to UCR and has announced his resignation. The street, originally designated Campus Drive, has been renamed Kim Wilcox Drive. The Arts Building, Hinderaker Hall, the School of Business,...
The University of California has announced in fall 2021 that UC Online’s cross-campus enrollment resource for online learning has been relaunched. The UC online platform allows undergraduate students the opportunity to receive instruction from any UC campus, especially those that may not be offered by the campus they attend. Academic credit is counted toward graduation, and these courses come...
Gov. Jerry Brown recently released his state budget proposal for the 2014-15 year, outlining a plan to allocate $12.8 billion to higher education. According to the budget, the University of California (UC) system would receive an increase of $142.2 million next year in state funding — an addition to the $2.8 billion that the university has been allocated in...
In an hour-long special elections meeting held in the senate chambers at 5 p.m. on Monday, May 23, ASUCR convened to hold its inaugural meeting with the newly elected senators, directors and executive cabinet members, and to appoint next year’s representatives for the positions of vice president of finance, elections director, Green Campus Action Plan (GCAP) director and president...
A 298-page investigative report released by the UC Office of the President details a pattern of inappropriate behavior in direct violation of the UC’s Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment (SVSH) policy on the part of James Sandoval, former vice chancellor of student affairs.
Sandoval, who was accused of sexual harassment in August 2017 by an anonymous source who worked...