On Friday, Jan. 17, ASUCR held their second meeting of the quarter.
At the start of the meeting, BCOE Senator Maurice Arstrong motioned to amend the agenda to include the GCAP allocations during committee reports. CHASS senator Angelica Garcia motioned to amend the agenda to include the finance hearing from Jan. 14 and CHASS Senator Isaiah Kim motioned to add...
According to UCR’s Office of Institutional Research, the university’s graduation rate has risen by 10 percentage points over the last six years. The data includes the amount of UCR’s 2013 freshmen cohort that graduated in the summer of 2019. This makes the UCR graduation rate 76%. The five-year graduation rate has shown a new UCR record at 75%. Four-year...
Over the past year, UCR Housing, Dining & Hospitality Services has introduced a variety of fair trade and sustainable coffee options to the many dining facilities on campus.
According to the Dining Services website, fair trade certified coffee “represents thousands of products that improve millions of lives by protecting land and waterways in 45 countries and counting.” Currently, the Italian...
On Friday, Jan. 10, California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed a $222 billion state budget to address current challenges California faces, such as homelessness, funding of K-12 education and climate change. Within the 2020-21 California proposal, $25 million would be allocated to the University of California, Riverside School of Medicine.
The funding from the proposal would be used to increase enrollment...
On Wednesday, Jan. 8, ASUCR held their second meeting of the quarter.
At the start of the meeting, Public Policy Senator and President Pro Tempore Preeti Juturu motioned to amend the agenda to add a discussion over SB-F19-018 which was discussed at last week’s ASUCR meeting. Juturu stated that there are inconsistencies within the bill. The motion to add discussion...
On Wednesday, Jan. 8, Preeti Juturu, ASUCR president pro tempore and public policy senator publicly resigned at the ASUCR meeting. During the meeting she stated, “I need to take a step back from ASUCR affairs and I need to take care of my personal affairs ... I am disappointed in the senate for not critically thinking about the issues...
The Voter Engagement Workgroup is organized by Student Life and consists of students from various organizations including ResLife, CalPIRG, ASUCR, ASPB, Mi Familia Vota, the Women’s Resource Center and the UC Advocacy Network. These students are working toward the common goal of increasing civic and voter engagement at UCR.
In an interview with The Highlander, Samuel Roberts, a fourth-year public...
The Plant Growth Environments Facility is currently underway near East Campus Drive and Eucalyptus Drive. Katherine A. Borkovich, professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology with the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) said that this new greenhouse facility will expand the amount and the quality of greenhouse space on campus. This is a...
On Thursday, Jan. 2, after a six month national search, UCR alumni Marie Schultz was appointed the new associate vice chancellor for development. The search advisory committee that selected Schultz was led by Assistant Vice Chancellor Johnny Cruz and consisted of six other campus leaders.
Schultz served as the assistant vice chancellor of development at UCR for six years. She...
On Tuesday, Jan. 7, a campus-wide forum was hosted in HUB 260 to discuss desirable traits and qualifications for the new potential UC Riverside provost and executive vice chancellor positions. The search comes in wake of former Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Cynthia Larive accepting the position of chancellor at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The decision...