Due to the high costs students have to deal with when it comes to purchasing textbooks for their courses (on average, $1,700 per student per academic year), UCR launched the Affordable Course Material Initiative (ACMI) in fall 2015. ACMI, which is a program that encourages the use of either free or low-cost online materials (including e-books) for courses, is...
All over the nation, a startling number of teenagers commit suicide every year. In competitive school districts like Palo Alto, clusters of teen suicides occur at an especially alarming rate. In order to curtail this tragic phenomenon, Assembly Bill 2246 was drafted by Long Beach Assemblyman Patrick O’Donnell. The bill requires schools to adopt suicide prevention policies targeting high-risk...
The goal of the UC system, per its own mission statement, is to educate Californians in order to benefit the California economy by creating an educated workforce. It comes as a shock, then, that the UC system has become the first American public university to outsource some of its information technology (IT) jobs to another country. Since last year,...
In response to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, UC President Janet Napolitano promised last November not to comply with federal agencies who may seek to deport undocumented students on UC campuses. This move makes the UC system part of a larger trend of campuses declaring themselves sanctuaries for immigrant students, who fear deportation under the incoming Trump administration.
This editorial board...
On average, 33,000 people are killed every year in the United States by means of firearms. All too often, we hear on the news about mass shootings, or shootings by police, always to public outcry — more often than not, regarding the disturbing ubiquity of guns in this country.
It is problematic, though (regardless of one’s views on the Second...
Students are employed all around campus — in dining services, as clerical workers in various campus offices, in the library and as campus tour guides, just to name a few. On-campus jobs are sought after because of their proximity to classes, flexible hours and involvement in the campus community. Like any other part-time job, students are paid the minimum...
Election Day 2016 will certainly be a memorable day for Americans, and for all the wrong reasons. Most people, this editorial board included, probably did not expect Donald Trump to win the presidency. Nevertheless, Trump is now the president-elect, and this fact carries tremendous weight in both political and social realms, which is a strong reason for this country...
The HUB Governing Board voted on Oct. 17 to make two different recommendations regarding the continuation of the Heat music festival; one of which simply states their support for continuing Heat, and one which recommends allocating 60 percent of the the funds set aside for Heat to go to the concert, with the rest going toward the expansion of...
Prop 51:
The Highlander Editorial Board endorses Proposition 51 on the California ballot.
Proposition 51 would allow California to issue $9 billion in bonds for physical repairs, construction and upgrades for public K-12 schools and community colleges. The Highlander Editorial Board endorses this bill because there is a desperate need for improvements in schools across the state. The importance of California’s...
As of this year, the Early Childhood Services (ECS) at UC Riverside has been running at a deficit of about $1 million dollars. While some solutions have been discussed — reducing staff, increasing class sizes, raising prices for services and lowering teachers’ salaries — the possibility of permanent closure looms heavily on the horizon.
Although the fate of the...