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On Saturday, March 14, UCR’s Interim Chief Information Officer of Information Technology Services David Gracy made recommendations for students and faculty who need to establish network connectivity from off campus in response to UCR’s campus closure in response to COVID-19.
Gracy wrote that several companies including...
On Saturday, March 14, UCR Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox sent a campuswide email announcing that all instruction will be delivered remotely for the entirety of spring quarter. This is a change from the April 3 end date for remote instruction. The announcement follows orders from Riverside County Public Health which calls on...
On March 10, Campus Communications sent a mass email to the UCR campus community announcing that instructors should plan to teach spring quarter courses fully online through April 3, 2020, and prepare to continue online instruction through the remainder of the quarter, as needed. Instructors are also being asked to communicate with students how final exams, if...
Approximately 350 protesters gathered in the lawn outside Orbach Science Library on March 5 to stand in solidarity with the UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) graduate student wildcat strike. Margarita Vizcarra, an organizer, chant leader and a second-year GSOE graduate student, began the march around 11:45 a.m. with acknowledgment of the native lands the university stands on, and...
On Thursday March 4 at 3:30 p.m., four students met with Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brian Haynes and Executive Vice Chancellor Thomas A. Smith for one hour to discuss UCR’s plan of action moving forward from the COLA strikes happening across the UC system. Vice Chancellor Haynes asked that The Highlander not...
Lecturers, graduate students and undergraduate students gathered underneath the “Change Things” and “Things Change” sculpture outside the Arts Building on Friday, March 3 at 12 p.m. to show solidarity before the University Council-American Federation of Teachers' (UC-AFT) contract bargaining meeting with the UC administration. UC-AFT is the union representing librarians, lecturers, program coordinators and supervisors of teacher...
The spread of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, is growing in the U.S. with the death toll rising to 19 as of Sunday. On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an $8.3 billion measure to help tackle the outbreak by providing funding to federal public health agencies for vaccines, tests and potential treatments for the disease. The measure...
During the March 4 ASUCR meeting, debates were heard over the potential liabilities involved with a Lyft initiative that would provide UCR students a Lyft discount code on the day of Spring Splash to get them to and from campus and prevent DUI’s.
During Public Forum, former CHASS Senator Aaron Sanchez addressed the senate....
Four candidates applied for the position of Graduate School of Education (GSOE) senator on Wednesday, March 4 at the weekly ASUCR meeting. A special election was held to fill the recently vacated position after the former GSOE Senator Evelin Castaneda publicly resigned from the position at the Feb. 19 ASUCR meeting.
Each candidate was...
On Thursday, March 5, at approximately 5:10 p.m., the ASUCR City Relations Committee, under the ASUCR Office of External Affairs held a Riverside City Council town hall in HUB 302 South. The event, comprising a panel and Q&A section, was moderated by members of the ASUCR City Relations Committee.
“Historically, UCR students are left...