On April 3, the Senate Health Committee approved the SB 24 bill after it was approved by the Senate Higher Education Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee. This bill, which is also known as the College Student Right to Access Act, would require all California public universities to have abortion medication at all on-campus student health centers by Jan....
A plan to transfer excess food from residential halls to a student community kitchen is in development at UCR. According to Wellness Coordinator Audrey Michelle Lim, untouched food from residential halls will be repackaged to other students on campus by student volunteers. Lim projects that the food recovery plan will roll out fall of next year. Currently, there is...
On April 24, UCR ranked 27 on Forbes’ list of the best value universities in the U.S. Last year, UCR ranked 64. The list consists of public and private universities (excluding military institutions) that provide the greatest return on investment for students. Forbes rates the schools based on their quality, net price, student net debt, post-grad earnings, on-time graduation...
On May 8, the sixth ASUCR meeting of spring quarter occurred in HUB 221. The meeting was called to order at 6:34 p.m.
During ex-officio reports, Peter Haddad, an associate justice from the ASUCR Judicial Council, announced multiple decisions made by the Judicial Council. On May 3, a Judicial Council meeting was held to hear appeals from then-candidates who...
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Cynthia K. Larive notified UCR students that Fall 2019 classes will begin and end ten minutes earlier in a May 7 email. In the campus-wide email, Larive stated that classes will begin on the hour and half hour. Larive claims that the new class schedule changes can be beneficial for on-campus and off-campus activities....
According to a report by The Education Trust, a national nonprofit that advocates for students of color and low-income students, UCR has made significant gains at addressing the gaps in college completion rates of minority and low-income students in comparison to white and high-income students.
At four percent, UCR has the second-highest enrollment rate of black students in the...
In a campus wide email, UCPD announced that at about 12:28 a.m. on May 10, they were notified of a shooting threat sent via Snapchat. The Snapchat appeared on a black screen and read, “I’m shooting up UC Riverside tomorrow.1st Black school shooter going down in History.”
UCPD sent another email update at 2:11 a.m. that stated that UCPD...
An ASUCR Judicial Council meeting was held on Friday, May 3 to hear appeals from then-candidates Julian Gonzalez, Lennin Kuri, Isaiah Kim and Luis Huerta in regard to alleged campaign violations which could potentially result in disqualification. The meeting, while open to the public, was closed at times for deliberation. While all of the details concerning violations are not...
The fifth ASUCR meeting of the quarter took place on May 1 and began at 6:35 p.m.
During public forum multiple students from the LGBT Resource Center (LGBTRC) approached the podium to express their concerns over the use of Chick-fil-A by ASUCR as an incentive during voting week on Monday, April 22, due to the historical anti-LGBT sentiments demonstrated...
UCR’s Information Technology Solutions (ITS) department released a new guest WiFi connection this past April named “UCR-GUEST.” The Highlander reached out to Rebecca Hutchins, the communication and assessment manager, for more information.
“The preparation for the new Guest Wi-Fi service was planned and tested for several months prior to the deployment date,” Hutchins wrote. She mentioned that there were difficulties...