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UCR’s 2020-2021 school year has been anything but uneventful. From continuous COVID-19 restrictions to extreme budget cuts, the university community has had to face many new changes and challenges this year. Here is the past year in review. September 2020 In September of 2020, grappling with steep budget cuts, UCR’s Budget Advisory Committee  suggested the […]

UCR and other UC campuses defy national trend with uptick in applications Author: J.D. Warren Share This: Defying pandemic-influenced predictions and national trends, the University of California, Riverside has posted record freshman applications for fall 2021.   A total of 52,263 applications were received for the fall 2021 freshman class. That represents an increase over the previous record of 49,252 for fall 2020.  It follows the trend of the other eight UC campuses with un...

On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Thomas M. Smith sent a campus wide email announcing that spring quarter instruction would continue remotely, finalizing the 2020-21 academic year at UCR as exclusively online. The future of spring quarter instruction looked bleak as health conditions in Riverside County worsened and coronavirus cases spiked, […]

Leadership and Administration UC Riverside’s administrative organizational structure features a Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor and six Vice Chancellors whose offices oversee specific areas and who report directly to the Chancellor.  UCRs Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox was appointed UC Riverside’s ninth chancellor in August 2013 and is responsible for developing and executing UCR’s strategic vision and goals by his team, in concert with the UC Office of the President, Provost and Execut...