UC Riverside plans to observe a Winter Holiday Closure during the 2025-2026 holiday season. The campus is scheduled to close beginning Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and will reopen on Friday, January 2, 2026. Pursuant to Personnel Policy 2.210: Absence from Work and relevant provisions of our collective bargaining agreements, the campus will...

Please be advised that all campus network services will experience intermittent service disruption between 4:00 AM and 12:00 PM on Sunday, October 19, 2025. This scheduled downtime is needed to support crucial upgrades to our campus border firewall. It is part of a series of network infrastructure improvements that ITS is making to enhance the...

We begin the academic year with excitement and purpose, but also with recognition that this is a very challenging time for the University of California and higher education more broadly. In August, I joined the University right as hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding for UCLA had been suspended by the federal government, which also...

Please be advised that select campus network services will experience an intermittent service disruption between 4:00 AM and 12:00 PM on Sunday, October 12, 2025. This scheduled downtime is needed to support crucial upgrades to our campus border firewall. During this maintenance window, campus wireless networks are among the services that will be...

Kathryn Uhrich has been appointed as UCR’s faculty athletics representative, or FAR, effective Oct. 1. She will work closely with intercollegiate athletics as a faculty voice in promoting the academic, health, and social welfare of student athletes. She will serve as an important leader and mentor for our student athletes and will play an integral...

Dear Colleagues, It is an exciting time with all the students on campus. Today, we held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the North District 2 residential facility. Our partners from the Riverside Community College District (RCCD), UC regents, state, city, and community leaders joined us to celebrate the first-of-its-kind project in California, where...

Dear Colleagues, From October 6, 2025, through December 1, 2025, UC Riverside will conduct its annual influenza vaccine reporting process. In accordance with the UC Office of the President (UCOP) Vaccine Policy, all employees are asked each year to do one of the following: Report that they have either: Received the seasonal influenza vaccine, or...

On behalf of the UC Office of the President, UCR's Chief Compliance Office is sharing a proposed revised research misconduct policy for comment. The proposed policy updates the current University Policy on Integrity in Research. On September 6, 2024, the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...

Like colleges and universities across the country, the University of California, UC Riverside (UCR) is subject to regulatory oversight by the state and federal governments and accrediting agencies. Over many years and across numerous federal administrations, higher education institutions including UC and UCR have received and consistently complied...

On Saturday, September 27th, the Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) will host UCR’s annual welcome back concert, Block Party, from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. We want to inform you of potential amplified sound and limited access to the inner campus during the event. Our team has submitted an amplified sound exemption form request, which was...

Information Technology Solutions (ITS) is pleased to announce that starting on September 15, 2025, UCR faculty and staff can access the UCR Software Catalog, a self-service software download tool that carries a variety of specialized software titles that users can independently install on their device. How to Use the UCR Software Catalog 1. Access...

As shared in June, we have made incredible strides in meaningfully improving the security of our campus community, including achieving 96% overall compliance with requirements of the UC Cybersecurity Mandate. This success means that most of you have already taken the required steps to complete your training and ensure your device is secured by the...

Dear Campus Community, Please be advised that select campus network services will experience a scheduled unavailability between 6:00 AM and 6:00 PM on Sunday, September 14, 2025. This scheduled downtime is needed to support crucial upgrades to our campus border firewall. During this maintenance window, several network services will be impacted...

Dear Campus Community, As the academic year approaches, we would like to reaffirm our shared commitment to the Principles of Community—and to remind all students and employees of their rights and responsibilities regarding free expression on our campus. Universities play a vital role in fostering environments where ideas can be exchanged freely and...

Dear Campus Community, Please be advised that all IT-reliant campus services will experience a scheduled unavailability between 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM on September 6, 2025. This essential downtime is dedicated to the critical second phase of our data center Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) installation. This vital project is led by our colleagues in...

Dear Campus Community, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Michelle Almazan as interim director of intercollegiate athletics at UC Riverside, effective August 22, 2025. Michelle currently serves as senior associate athletics director for student-athlete affairs and academic services, as well as the department’s senior woman administrator...

Dear Colleagues, It has been one month since I began my service as chancellor of UC Riverside. During my first several weeks, I had opportunities to engage broadly, including attending my first UC Board of Regents meeting, traveling to Washington, D.C. for introductory meetings with members of the California delegation, and meeting with community...

Dear Campus Community, I’m pleased to announce two important interim campus leadership appointments. Beginning Aug. 16, Kim McDade will step into the role of interim vice chancellor for University Advancement. Kim currently serves as chief financial and administrative officer for University Advancement and vice president and CFO of the UC Riverside...

Dear Campus Community, Please be advised that all campus information technology services will experience a scheduled unavailability between 12:01 a.m. to 8 a.m. on Wednesday, August 13, 2025. This essential downtime is dedicated to the critical first phase of our data center Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) installation. This vital project is led...

Dear Campus Community, Wes Mallette has announced that he will step down as director of intercollegiate athletics, effective August 21, to become deputy athletics director/chief marketing officer at the University of South Carolina. Wes joined UC Riverside in 2018 as chief of staff and senior associate athletics director for external affairs, where...