Dear Highlanders, Thank you for your continued patience and flexibility over the past year as we navigated through an unprecedented pandemic. During this time, many of our campus facilities remained closed due to safety and health protocols. However, I’m happy to announce the opening of the Student Recreation Center (SRC) beginning Monday, March 29...

New resources are available to help students, faculty, and advisors understand which IT tools and services are available to University Extension (UNEX) students who are concurrently enrolled in courses at UCR. Those interested in learning more about concurrent enrollment policies and procedures should visit the UNEX website, which provides...

Dear colleagues, As the campus continues to prepare for a Fall 2021 reopening, Facilities Services is happy to announce the return of our Resource Management staff. This return also marks the ability for our department to continue providing necessary moving services to the campus. We are now offering the following services: • Equipment moves •...

Dear Campus Community, One year ago, I stood among the blooming orange trees on campus to record a video message to students. We were in the process of preparing for our first remote quarter and managing through rapid change and great uncertainty, unsure of what would come next. As we finish our fourth remote quarter, and move toward the next, it’s...

Dear UCR Colleagues, On April 1, 2020, at the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, we announced the following interim practices: *Review, postpone, or suspend all open faculty and staff searches, with exceptional approval required by the cognizant Vice Chancellor, Dean or organizational head to move forward. Human Resources and Academic...

Dear Campus Community, For many years, we have been striving at UC Riverside to redefine campus safety in a way that addresses the needs of our diverse community. Through the Black Student Task Force (BSTF), we began important conversations across campus in 2015. Then, following the UC Presidential Task Force on University Policing 2019...

This communication is to provide an immediate update on information that may impact supervisors, managers, staff employees and you. UCOP issued further clarification on paid time off for hourly employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and the use of UC Expanded Paid Administrative Leave (PAL) if an employee gets sick from side effects of the...

Please note that the “blackout period” described in the March 8, 2021 scotmemo – New Pandemic Relief for Flexible Spending Arrangement (FSA) Participants, a pplies to claims for expenses incurred in the 2020 plan year only. During the transition of data from the Wage Works system to the Discovery Benefits/Wex system occurring from April 16 to no...

Facilities Services is offering hand Sanitizer and disinfecting kits to staff who are on-campus and supported by UCR main campus Facilities Services operations. All sanitizers and disinfecting kits are available at no charge. Customers will be contacted for delivery once supplies become available. Please email facilities@ucr.edu with questions. To...

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has defined childcare and education workers as those who are at risk of occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 through their work in any role in the following childcare and education settings: • All formal and informal childcare workers, including day care providers • All staff in colleges...

Dear Campus Community, We are pleased by the recent announcement from Governor Newsom and legislative leadership that the state will restore permanent funding to the University of California to its levels from July 1, 2019. This funding restoration, which is subject to full legislative approval, would take effect July 1, 2021. As a result of an...

Colleagues, this communication is to provide an immediate update on information that may impact supervisors, managers, staff employees and you. Sick Leave for Child Care Reasons due to COVID-19 – Extended through 06/30/2021 On Monday, March 1, President Drake has temporarily approved extending the time for expanding the reasons for which policy...

All UC Riverside employees are now eligible to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine under Phase 1B of the State of California’s vaccine allocation guidelines, which allows for those working in the education sector to receive a vaccine. This message contains important information about employment verification and vaccine availability. We encourage you to take...

Dear Campus Community, In early February, UCR faculty and students were surveyed to better understand their preferences for fall quarter instruction, assuming Riverside would then be in the state’s Yellow tier. Overall, respondents were strongly split on their instructional mode preferences. Written comments expressed both support for returning to...

Dear Students: Thanks to those of you who responded to our recent survey about fall quarter instruction. We learned a lot about your learning preferences as well as our faculty's teaching preferences. Since the survey was distributed in early February, vaccination rates have continued to rise, case counts and test positivity rates have fallen...

Policy Spotlight Series Each month the Chief Compliance Office will highlight a policy for its Policy Spotlight Series. This month focuses on the recently issued UC Gender Recognition and Lived Name policy: UC Gender Recognition and Lived Name Policy The new presidential policy ensures that all students, employees, alumni, and affiliates are...

Dear Campus Community, In the initial essay for the New York Times Magazine series, “The 1619 Project,” author Nikole Hannah-Jones looks at history in America beginning with the year that slaves were first brought to the English settlement of Jamestown. Of her Black father’s decision to fly the American flag on a pole in their front yard, she...

It is with deep sadness that we announce that UCR librarian Christina Cicchetti passed away on Sunday, February 21, 2021. Christina received her BA in Humanities from Walla Walla University in Washington State, MS in Information Studies from Drexel University, and Educational Specialist (EdS) Certificate in Curriculum and Instruction from La Sierra...

In January 2021, UC President Drake announced that the University of California is “planning for a return to primarily in-person instruction systemwide starting in fall 2021.” In order to pivot toward the resumption of in-person classes, research and creative activities, and campus operations, UC Riverside has been reviewing our guiding principles...

Dear Campus Community: The task of vaccinating hundreds of millions of people would be complex at any time. It is especially difficult when executing this effort for the first time with infrastructure that varies by state, county, and health system. UC Riverside continues to rely on incremental decision-making, using the best information available...