UCR recently placed 27th out of 201 universities in the Sierra Club’s “Cool School” ranking system. This ranking scores each participating university on sustainability, giving points for factors such as the degree of divestment from fossil fuels and the efficient use of energy on campus. Notably, this ranking puts UCR well ahead of other major California schools, such as...
Cal State Los Angeles (CSULA) recently generated controversy when it announced the creation of a specific housing option for “those interested in issues concerning the black community.” The move by CSULA follows other California universities such as Stanford and Berkeley, which offer ethnic themed housing, and continues CSULA’s development of their own themed living communities. Despite being open to...
Widespread outrage continues to emerge since Tuesday, June 7 when Santa Clara Superior Court judge Aaron Persky decided to give former Stanford University swimmer, Brock Turner, a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman. The incident, which occurred after midnight on January 18, 2015, involved an intoxicated Turner taking a heavily intoxicated and fully unconscious woman behind...
Last Tuesday, Democratic Party presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton held rallies in the Riverside area, the former in downtown Riverside, and the latter on UCR’s campus itself. These visits are a huge boost to the image and renown of UCR, as well as of Riverside and the Inland Empire as a whole.
The rallies held in Riverside reflect,...
Last week, a UC panel approved a new policy that would guarantee financial aid to student athletes at Division I schools in the event of a career-ending injury. Previously, only UCLA and UC Berkeley had been required to provide such protections; now UCR would be among the UC campuses covering its student athletes in this manner.
This new policy is,...
Since 2014, Chancellor Kim Wilcox’s Physical Master Plan has been in the works. Previous consultation workshops have been held at the HUB to gather student and faculty opinions for a study guided by the Santa Monica-based architecture firm Moore Ruble Yudell. Recently, at a town hall meeting on May 3, Wilcox revealed some specific concepts for the campus expansion...
Recently, Dean Reza Abbaschian of UCR’s Bourns College of Engineering (BCOE), who had served in the position for 11 years, is stepping down from his position due to “differences” with Chancellor Kim Wilcox. Abbaschian stated that the differing goals each man has have forced this turn of events. Abbaschian’s resignation raises multiple issues for which Wilcox has provided no...
According to a copy of a contract released under the California Public Records Act, UC Davis administration admitted to paying public relations firm Nevins & Associates $175,000 “to create and execute an online branding campaign designed to clean up the negative attention the University of California, Davis and Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi have received related to the events that...
Two recent California laws are playing a major role in expanding women's rights. The first, which significantly eases access to birth control pills, was passed in 2013 and finally activated last Friday after years of regulatory discussion. The second, which was passed just days ago by Governor Jerry Brown, would extend the length of time new parents can take...
The University of California and the California Community Colleges (CCC) system have approved a collaborative effort to increase UC enrollment of community college students over the next three years through expanding campus outreach and Transfer Pathways, a program dedicated to setting transfer students on course to major in popular fields, such as computer science, history and psychology. $2.6 million...