ASUCR’s final state of the association meeting of winter quarter commenced at 6:09 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8 in the senate chambers. Serving as the major point of discussion for the night was the passage of senate bill W-027, which provided the guidelines for the 2017-18 elections cycle in regards to laptopping.
Prior to the presentation of the bill...
A group of ASUCR senators is working to bring representatives from various ethnic and gender programs together in a diversity council that supporters say would give the programs greater representation in ASUCR and enable them to work toward common goals more easily.
“The diversity council is really about working on things in solidarity with one another,” CHASS Senator Abraham Galvan...
Thirteen solar-powered benches that feature outlets for students to recharge their portable devices were installed all across UCR last week.
The concept of the benches, according to Sustainable UCR, started in 2010 after a group of students wanted to find a way to charge their devices in an environmentally friendly way. After four years of planning, the solar-powered benches are...
On Thursday, October 15, 1,100 backpacks were scattered across the University of California, Riverside's Bell Tower Lawn from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in honor of college suicide victims. The event, called "Send Silence Packing," is a program created by Active Minds, the nation's leading organization on young adult mental wellness.
Since its inaugural display on the National Mall grounds...
On April 22, the ASUCR judicial council chose not to validate the 2016 ASUCR election results, citing that the guidelines they operated under resulted in “an unfair environment” that allowed for reported incidents of laptopping and campaign violations. To rectify this situation, they have recommended that a new elections cycle take place with new stipulations, such as polling stations...
From Nov. 9-11, UCR hosted the 24th Annual Students of Color Conference (SOCC), a three-day systemwide event that addressed the structural and social issues of racial, ethnic and gender inequalities.
SOCC is one of the oldest conferences held by the UC Student Association (UCSA) and it takes place at a different UC campus every year. The initial planning stages date...
Jane Close Conoley, who served as UCR’s interim chancellor from Dec. 2012 to Aug. 2013 and is the current dean of UC Santa Barbara’s Gervitz School of Education, has been named the seventh president of Cal State Long Beach by the California State University Board of Trustees. Conoley will be the first woman to assume the position in CSU...
President Barack Obama has announced plans for a college ratings system with the end goal of tying federal funding to it. While a piece of legislation has yet to be announced, the president is asking for input from government stakeholders on the proposal by Feb. 17.
While the proposal will continue to undergo revisions, an outline by the White House...
A $102.8 million loan-forgiveness program and $95.5 million settlement have been drawn up after the Education Management Corporation (EDMC) was accused of using unlawful student recruitment programs.
EDMC currently exists as the second-largest chain of for-profit education in the United States, after Laureate International Universities. With over 100 campuses operating in the United States and Canada, this corporation includes the...
The main focus of ASUCR’s fourth senate meeting, which began promptly at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 1, was to vote on the appointment of justice nominee, Mina Hanin, a fourth-year political science major. Hanin’s term would be for one year only, unlike the traditional two-year term the other justices receive; Hanin would take up the vacant role on...