Tag: education
UCR professor awarded grant to help middle school students with learning...
Professor at the UCR Graduate School of Education Rollanda O’Connor has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute...
Hillary Clinton takes campaign to UC Riverside
A crowd of over 1,000 people attended a campaign rally for U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton held in UCR Athletics’ Johnson Family Practice...
Advance parole will advance undocumented students’ education
There is a little-known law called “advance parole” that allows people who are not documented American citizens to leave the country under certain conditions...
Riverside assemblymen lose fight for Corinthian College bill
This past April, the U.S. Department of Education fined the for-profit Corinthian College system $30 million for misleading loan agencies and students regarding the...
“New UCR-RUSD-RCC partnership needed step toward better STEM education”
On September 8, Chancellor Kim Wilcox, Riverside Unified School District (RUSD) Superintendent David Hansen and Riverside City College (RCC) President Wolde-Ab Issac signed an...
UCR physicists assist in upgrading CERN hadron collider
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the world’s most powerful particle accelerator — in Geneva, Switzerland has restarted operations for the first time in...
Inland Education Collaborative awarded $5 million
An Inland Empire collaborative has been selected to receive a $5 million Governor’s Award for Innovation in Higher Education, the maximum amount possible. The...
Editorial: Community colleges can contribute to California’s need for degrees
Community colleges in California have recently received approval to start running pilot programs for four-year degrees. The program will allow for community colleges to...
Editorial: Obama college rating system will work with some changes
With the Super Bowl over and the people who legally agreed upon deals with friends whereby some would be given money in the event...
President Obama offers free community college
On Jan. 8, President Barack Obama announced a proposal that offers two years of free community college tuition to students who meet certain requirements....