Tag: food insecurity
University students should be allowed to take food out of dining...
Spend five minutes in UC Riverside’s Glasgow dining hall and see five different signs about food waste. Reducing food waste is an important and...
No student left behind when overcoming food insecurity
Dear Editor,
I will be the first in my family to live away from home next year, so learning that 6 out of 10 students...
Easy access to food is a right all students deserve
Food insecurity continues to be a threat to students at UCR. In a survey done by the Basic Needs department on campus, more than...
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes lawmakers’ coldness toward hungry families
It is no secret that the COVID-19 pandemic is ravaging the nation’s economy and threatening to plunge tens of millions of Americans into debt...
Student Lobby Conference promotes discussion on student hunger, inadequate funding
From Friday, March 23 to Sunday, March 25, students from UCR and eight other UC campuses gathered at the State Capitol for the annual...
R’Gear is a waste of students’ money and must be discontinued
R’Gear, when it began in February of 2015, was penned as an initiative to raise school spirit by distributing supposedly “free” UCR sweatshirts and...
Exclusive interview: UC Regents Chair George Kieffer
Chairman of the University of California Board of Regents George Kieffer spoke to The Highlander on Friday discussing issues such as tuition and food...
ASUCR: New R’Feed committee to combat food insecurity
ASUCR held their fourth meeting of winter quarter commencing at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 31. The meeting primarily covered the approval of the...
A Word of Advice from … Associate Professor of History Dana...
Professor Dana Simmons has been teaching at UCR for 12 years and has certainly made her mark. Simmons first began researching how modern minimum...
Graduate Student Association speaks on graduate student food insecurity
To continue our coverage on UC Riverside’s 62 percent food insecurity rate, the Highlander sat down with three members of the Graduate Student Association...