The Outreach Director, the ASUCR position responsible for coordinating UCR’s outreach efforts to students and the community, will be absorbed by the Finance Committee. According to Carolyn Chang, the current Outreach Director, the move will make things more convenient by facilitating effective communication. She states, “The main purpose of the Outreach Director is to hold the Outreach Grant Hearing,...
ASUCR’s Parliamentarian Jose Rodriguez, who joined the organization this academic year and was responsible for advising the senate on proper procedure (i.e. Robert’s Rules of Order) and on following the bylaws correctly, was dismissed from his position this past week. During public comment at last Wednesday’s ASUCR meeting, Rodriguez informed the senators, most for the first time, that Executive...
ASUCR held its eighth meeting of the quarter last Wednesday, Feb. 28 at 6:40 p.m. This was a “State of the Association” meeting, where all ASUCR officers attend in order to report on the state of their departments. The meeting began with public forum, where Alyssa Gaw of the UCR California Public Interest Group (CALPIRG) chapter presented updates on...
The Middle Eastern Student Center (MESC) at UCR, located in HUB 377, attempted to move into Costo Hall with the rest of the Costo Hall programs but they have been unable to do so due to spacing challenges.
MESC was established five years ago as a part of the ethnic and gender programs, which are all named in the Highlander...
At the beginning of the Winter 2019 quarter, the Student Voice Committee (SVC) conducted a survey regarding UCR student interest in transferring or leaving UCR; 281 student responses highlighted an interest in leaving or transferring out of UCR.
According to the Student Voice Committee Chair Denis Turan, the Student Voice Committee sought a total of 392 student responses in...
On Feb. 14, 2019 the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) hosted their second installation of the 2019 Virtual Career Series as directed by the office’s Constituent Engagement branch. The online seminar, hosted each month by various University of California university alumni, “is designed to provide UC alumni with the insights, information and connections to launch, grow...
According to a recent UCR study, our partners and spouses could be the key to having a more positive outlook on a situation.
The study, “Interpersonal positive reframing in the daily lives of couples coping with breast cancer,” was authored by UCR Assistant Professor of Psychology Megan Robbins, psychology graduate student Robert C. Wright, Thomas Jefferson University graduate student...
District 31 State Senator Richard Roth recently introduced Senate Bill 461 which would expand the current Cal Grant program to encompass two additional summer terms of up to nine units of course credits. The bill has been immediately endorsed and championed by the Coalition for a Better UC (CBUC), a student-led activist organization that focuses on tackling socioeconomic issues...
Published on Feb. 26, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, recent research finds evidence indicating that the first organism motility, or an organism with the ability to move, can be traced back 2.1 billion years ago.
Conducted by Andrey Bekker, associate professor in Department of Earth Sciences, Timothy Lyons, distinguished professor...
Recent ASUCR senate resolutions, UCR student studies and proposed referendums have called attention to the prevalence of food insecurity at UCR. In 2015, the Nutrition Policy Institute (NPI), a UC research group which studies public health, conducted a review which affirmed that 62.5 percent of UCR students are food-insecure, with recent survey results still yielding data suggesting that rate...