Scammers claiming to be from the Chinese Consulate targeted UCR faculty and staff with phone calls during during the week of Oct. 1. This situation was originally publicized through a schoolwide email sent by John Virden, Chief Information Security Officer of Information Technology Solutions (ITS). “The message suggests a critical parcel is available at the consulate that can affect...
On June 14 of this summer, The Barn, UCR’s iconic eatery, was closed for an 18-month renovation project aimed at modernizing and expanding the site prior to its reopening in Jan. 2020. Now that a quarter of the project’s timeline has passed, the Highlander has followed-up with Principal Architect Andrew Hecht and Campus Architect Jacqueline Norman for the full...
Two years after the election of President Donald Trump, the midterm elections are once again slated to take place nationally.
The midterm elections, held in November every four years near the midpoint of a president’s term, is approaching. This year’s midterms take place on Nov. 6, 2018, from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. The deadline to register to vote...
ASUCR held their second meeting of the fall quarter at 6:35 p.m. last Wednesday, Oct.10. The Senate discussed the appointment of a new BCOE senator and the selection of a new Elections Director for ASUCR this year.
During public forum Justin Domecillo, a fourth-year English major, mentioned a bylaws workshop covering its first chapter, for the benefit of ASUCR staff...
According to a press release from Friday, Oct. 12, “AFSCME Local 3299, announced ... that the University’s Patient Care Technical workers will be staging a 3-day walkout from Oct. 23-25 at all UC Medical Centers.” Contract negotiations between the UC and its patient care unit remain at an impasse, having exceeded the December 2017 deadline. On top of this,...
The University of California announced on Wednesday, Sept. 26 that it plans to pledge more than $7 million every year to expand on its existing programs to strengthen faculty diversity as well as create new programs.
In a press release, UC President Janet Napolitano stated at a UC Board of Regents meeting, “We know that students’ academic performance and...
Riverside was recently ranked No. 19 on MSN Money’s list of the best cities to grow a business.
The list, “30 Cities Where Small Business Owners Are Thriving,” highlights places where entrepreneurs are thriving using GOBankingRates, a personal finance resource, which in turn uses data from the Kaufman Index to determine which city is providing the most promising environment for...
On Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 10 a.m. students gathered around the Bear’s Den for the official opening of UC Riverside’s R’Closet. In a collaboration between the Career Center and the Associated Students of UC Riverside (ASUCR), R’Closet is a resource that gives students access to professional clothing that they may not be able to afford on their own. From...
ASUCR held its first meeting of the quarter on Wednesday, Oct. 3, and started the quarter off by filling the vacant CNAS senator position with third-year biology major Kenneth Vongdi. The meeting saw public comment from various organizations such as CALPIRG about voter registration initiatives. In order to familiarize this year’s senate with the staff, several ASUCR staff members...
Sixteen hundred transfer students were enrolled at UC Riverside this fall quarter. This is just a hundred shy of the projected fall enrollment by Emily Engelschall, director of Undergraduate Admissions at UCR. In response to threatened budget cuts last year due to an excessive amount of freshman students compared to transfers, Engelschall has collaborated with several departments of the...