Signed into law on March 27, 2020 by President Donald J. Trump, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act allocates $2.2 trillion toward alleviating economic and health burdens resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Among the many provisions the bill provides, the piece of legislation provides direct financial aid to individuals, impacts student...
All events hosted by the UCR Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) have been canceled until further notice according to a post published on ASPB’s Instagram page on Monday, March 16. The cancellation comes in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and UCR’s campus closure.
The post states, “In line with Chancellor Wilcox’s and Governor Newsom’s...
Like undergraduate students, graduate students have been impacted by the spread of COVID-19 and the subsequent moves by university administration to close campus until April 30 and move the entirety of spring quarter courses to an online format. Spring quarter changes were announced just 10 days after the March 4 demonstration in demand for a cost-of-living adjustment...
The Office of Student Health Services at UCR has issued guidelines for suspected COVID-19 patients. The Office of Student Health Services has a limited number of kits from Quest Diagnostics for COVID-19 testing and is currently using them for designated students who meet Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria. Clinical and testing decisions are determined by...
UCR’s campus closure due to COVID-19 means that all instruction will be delivered remotely for the entirety of spring quarter. This has left many students with questions regarding what will happen to their tuition and fees now that they will not have access to many on-campus resources including labs, studios, libraries and the student recreation center (SRC).
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The Riverside County Public Health Officer has issued a revised public health order, extending the physical closure of the UC Riverside campus for all but the most critical university functions. The closure was originally scheduled to end on April 3, but UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox announced in a campuswide email on...
On Tuesday, March 18, ASUCR Elections Director Dyanna Castaneda announced in a campuswide email that the ASUCR Elections Committee has cancelled all on-campus events, in adherence to UCR’s enactment of COVID-19 safety measures and efforts to minimize in-person contact.
In the email, Castaneda wrote that campus leadership determined that elections activities and events such...
UCR will be implementing changes to the spring 2020 late payment penalties according to a campuswide email sent from UCR’s The Office of the Registrar.
The email stated, “In light of the ongoing changing landscape due to COVID-19, and the uncertainty some of you might be feeling at this...
On Monday March 16, University of California (UC) President Janet Napolitano issued an executive order that allows all employees to receive a one-time allotment of up to 128 hours of paid administrative leave.
Napalitano wrote in the order that on March 9, 2020, the UC authorized a grant of up to 14 days of...
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On March 17, UCR Interim Provost Thomas Smith and Vice Chancellor of Research and Economic Development (VCRED) Rodolfo Torres announced that UCR is strictly curtailing on-campus research activities to those that cannot be postponed or restarted and preparing for a possible complete shutdown of research on campus.