Dear Campus Community, California Department Public Health (CDPH) and Cal/OSHA recently issued requirements for all employees to receive training on COVID-19 and methods to prevent illness. To address this training mandate, UC Riverside has developed a short 12-minute online training that applies to all employees at various locations. Training for...

Dear UCR Community, I am grateful to all of you who participated during this academic year in our search for UCR’s next permanent provost and executive vice chancellor. There are few more important appointments a chancellor makes, so I have invested many weeks since interviewing finalists in thoughtful reflection and consultation with the search...

Dear Campus Community, Chief Mike Lane is retiring from the University of California, Riverside Police Department on June 29 after 24 years of dedicated service. Mike served the campus as a resident director in Housing for 3 years prior to his time with UCPD. We thank Mike for his service and wish him the best in his retirement. Given the current...

Dear Campus Community, Today marks one of the oldest celebrations of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Juneteenth is widely celebrated in African American communities as “Freedom Day” or “Emancipation Day.” It marks the date of June 19, 1865, when the federal orders were read by Union Colonel Gordon Granger in Galveston, Texas...

Dear Campus Community, Over the last two months, our Instructional Continuity Working Group has evaluated options for providing a healthy and effective teaching and learning environment for the 2020-21 academic year. The Committee includes faculty, staff, and student members, and its work was informed by consultation with the Academic Senate...

Dear faculty colleagues: I am delighted to announce that after almost three months of closure, starting Monday, June 15, 2020, you can now check out books again from the Rivera and Orbach Libraries’ circulating collections via drive-up Contact-Free Curbside Delivery . Pick-up will be Monday through Friday from 1:00 - 4:30 p.m. at the Rivera Library...

Following a creative development process that involved hundreds of UC Riverside students, faculty, staff, and friends the new UCR brand visual identity launched on Saturday, June 13. The new identity is an update to the university’s logo, monogram, graphic icons, typography, color palette, and design guidelines. The updated marks retain core design...

Payroll Parking Charges Due to the campus closure for COVID-19, we will be suspending all April, May and June payroll parking charges. Please note that parking permit payroll deductions are charged in arrears. This means that for those who are paid monthly, the deduction on the 1st of the month is for the previous month’s parking. For those paid bi...

Dear Campus Community, Since that day in March when we transitioned to mostly remote operations, I have looked forward to a time when we could bring more people back to campus. Today I am writing to highlight information and resources available to support our community as we work through the next phase in response and recovery. Campus Return As you...

Dear campus community, Please join me in congratulating Milagros Peña, dean of the UC Riverside College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Earlier today she was named president of Purchase College. Her successful season serving as dean of CHASS since 2015 – marked by increases in fundraising, expansion of UCR ARTS, strengthening of the...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that we have finalized requirements for ramping up on-campus research as part of our next phase of returning to our physical workspaces. I appreciate the feedback we received after I mentioned this effort in the recent RED newsletter and believe our plan will provide an important framework to ensure...

Dear Campus Community, In March and early April, elected leaders held daily press conferences in which they reported the number of ventilators they had secured. In hospitals and labs, physicians, scientists, and device manufacturers looked for new ways to help patients suffering from COVID-19 breathe. Both federal and state entities went to great...

Dear Campus Community, May typically is a month when we begin celebrating our accomplishments over the last year. As we roll toward final exams, we prepare to say goodbye to students who are heading home for the summer while the graduating class prepares to leave. This year, even in the middle of a pandemic, we have reasons to celebrate. For...

Dear UCR Community, As you are aware, the in-person 2020 Commencement ceremonies scheduled for May and June have been postponed until they can be safely rescheduled, except for the School of Medicine, which will have an online graduation ceremony for their M.D. graduates on May 29. An online celebration for UC Riverside’s Class of 2020 will be held...

Dear Campus Community, Each year around this time, the Governor provides an updated budget proposal for the coming year based on the state’s financial outlook. Last week, Governor Newsom released his May Revise. In light of COVID-19 and the pandemic’s impact on state revenue and expenses, this year’s update was more significant. If enacted, the...

Dear Campus Community: The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a Public Service Announcement regarding targeted hacking campaigns. This alert warns that state-sponsored malicious actors are targeting organizations and researchers conducting COVID-19-related research. The UCR ITS Information Security Office...

Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to announce that Professor Marko Princevac will serve as UCR’s Interim Vice Provost of International Affairs beginning July 1st, 2020. The VPIA plays a critical role as UCR’s chief academic officer for international programs and engagement and is a member of UCR’s senior leadership team. Dr. Princevac will serve as...

This note is intended to update you on broader campus discussions about where we stand and where we are going. As we proceed through the second month of this situation the campus, like everyone else in the state, is beginning to discuss whether and how we might open up again. Campus leadership meet regularly each week to discuss questions relating...

Dear Campus Community, As I’ve mentioned in recent messages, the questions I receive most frequently now revolve around the status of fall quarter and how are we preparing for an eventual resuming of on-campus operations. The purpose of this message is to provide information about the work we are doing to prepare for various scenarios. You will...

The UC Office of the President invites comments on a proposed Presidential Policy on Native American Cultural Affiliation and Repatriation. The proposed policy substantively revises the existing Policy and Procedures on Curation and Repatriation of Human Remains and Cultural Items (“Current Policy”). The policy pertains to the treatment and...