Tag: policy
Economic impacts of the Los Angeles wildfires
The recent outbreak of fires in Los Angeles (LA) have amounted to an estimated economic loss of $250 billion, making it the costliest natural...
Policy updates on campus regarding expressions of protest
For the purpose of responding to campus climate concerns and enforcing California Senate Bill 108, the University of California, Riverside (UCR) has made effective...
Current updates to combat campus climate concerns
Four new policies have been applied at the University of California (UC) systemwide since the conclusion of the 2023-2024 academic year, affecting areas such...
Cutting from the bottom-up: The elimination of UCR athletics and the...
As UCR approaches the new academic year, one of the main concerns facing Highlanders is the Budget Advisory Committee’s (BAC) proposal to eliminate UCR...
CARE and Title IX pilot their new series focused on sexual...
On Tuesday, Oct. 22, the Dean of Students office, CARE and Title IX piloted their conversation series focused on Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment...
UCR police department to use body worn cameras and in-car video...
Beginning this quarter, the UCR police department will begin to use body worn cameras (BWC’s) and in-car video systems as a part of their...
UCR professor presents an optimistic forecast for the future of higher...
In an article titled “Is this the Golden Age for Higher Education?” recently published in the Chronicle for Higher Education, Dr. Stephen Brint, a...
UCR School Of Public Policy seminar discusses new Science to Policy...
On Nov. 29, the UCR School of Public Policy (SPP) held a seminar titled “2018 Midterms: What Did Science Win and Lose at the...
Inland Empire Poverty Summit examines local economic hardship
The Inland Empire Poverty Summit was a conference held jointly by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty, a research program dedicated...
CALPIRG successfully lobbies for cleaner energy in California
Over the course of 2017, the California Public Interest Research Group (CALPIRG), a student-led activist group that addresses issues such as “environmental (and) consumer...