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The University of California, Riverside, is a public coeducational university whose main campus of nearly 1,200-acre is in a suburban district of the city of Riverside, California. There is a branch campus in Palm Desert. It is one of ten University of California campuses and is commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside. Founded in 1907 as the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, it is the oldest research presence of the UC system in Southern California and enrolls the most diverse student body of all the UC campuses.

History

The Citrus Experiment Station

On February 14, 1907, the University of California Board of Regents established a citrus experiment and research station on 23 acres of land on the east slope of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside. Citrus experimentation in Riverside had been carried on for many decades before; for example, the navel orange was first grown in the United States from cuttings imported from Brazil and planted in Riverside in the 1870s. The purpose of the new station was to conduct experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement. In 1917, the laboratory was moved to the west slope of the Box Springs Mountains.

Founding of a liberal arts college

In the late 1940s, the UC system was experiencing a massive influx of students as former servicemen took advantage of the 1945 GI Bill, and a state education committee was scouting out locations for a new campus. A local group of citrus growers and civic and business leaders successfully lobbied the state legislature for the establishment of a small liberal arts college in Riverside. In 1949, California Governor Earl Warren signed legislation approving the establishment of a College of Letters and Science attached to the Citrus Experiment Station.

Gordon S. Watkins, dean of the College of Letters and Science at UCLA, organized the new college at Riverside. He became UCR's first provost, or administrative head. On a February day of 1954, 127 students and 65 professors trudged through rain and mud to launch the new school at what is now University Avenue and Canyon Crest Drive.

UCR as a comprehensive university

In 1958, the Regents designated Riverside as a general UC campus. Herman Theodore Spieth, UCR's first chancellor, oversaw the beginnings of the school's transition to full university status in accordance with the developing California Master Plan for Higher Education.

Ivan Hinderaker, UCR's second chancellor, was installed on September 29 1964, the same year the Free Speech Movement erupted at UC Berkeley. Hinderaker was credited with cooperating with student activists throughout his administration so that political confrontations did not occur on the dramatic scale of political protests at larger UC campuses in the 1960s.

According to an 1998 interview with Hinderaker, in 1972 Riverside gained a reputation for severe air pollution when the mayor of Riverside asked Governor Ronald Reagan to declare the South Coast air basin a smog disaster area, a condition that significantly hampered recruitment of both students and faculty. Hinderaker said he developed UCR’s innovative biomedical program and popular business administration program partly to lessen the enrollment problems created by Riverside's air quality. He also established UCR’s graduate schools of education and administration and streamlined UCR’s departmental structure during this period.

The 1978 passage of Proposition 13, a California ballot measure that cut property taxes, further reduced budgets for UCR as well as all other public education institutions in California through the 1980s. After Hinderaker retired in 1979, a series of four chancellors served relatively brief appointments throughout the decade. Enrollment began to make modest but sustained annual gains, more than doubling by 1991.

Tidal Wave II to today

A reduction in enrollment throughout the UC and California State University systems in the early nineties was attributed to statewide recession. With the improvement of the economy in 1994, the UC campuses began receiving more applications than anticipated. This surge became known as "Tidal Wave II" (the first "tidal wave" of students having been the Baby Boom generation born in the post-World War II era). To help the UC system accommodate this growth, planners targeted UCR for an annual growth rate of 6.3 percent, the fastest in the UC system and anticipated that 19,900 students enrolled at UCR by 2010.

As enrollment increased, so did the ethnic diversity of the students. By 1995, fully 30 percent of UCR students were members of non-Caucasian groups, the highest proportion of any campus in the UC system. The 1997 implementation of Proposition 209 — which banned the use of race and ethnicity as criteria for admissions, hiring, promotions and contracting by state agencies (including the University of California) — had the effect of further increasing ethnic diversity at UCR while reducing it at the most selective campuses in the system.

Campus

Main campus

The university is next to California State Route 60, which passes over University Avenue. Painted on the eastern support wall of the overpass is the Gluck Gateway Mural, a 190-foot memorial of UCR history from the early days of the Citrus Experiment Station through 2000, the year the mural was painted.

A nearby shopping center called University Village provides several stores and restaurants. The center's movie theaters serve as lecture halls during the day, with a shuttle taking students back and forth to campus every 15 minutes.

In the center of the main campus stands the UCR Carillon Bell Tower, one of only four in California. It was given as a gift by former UC regent Philip Boyd and his wife Dorothy. The dedication of the carillon and tower took place on October 2, 1966. Designed by A. Quincy Jones - Jones & Emmons of Los Angeles, the tower is 49.1 meters (161 feet) tall and contains 48 bells, cast in France. The bells cover four chromatic octaves and weigh from 12.7 kg to 2309.24 kg (28 to 5,091 pounds). They were first heard in 1966 and were part of the initial broadcast of the campus radio station, KUCR. At first, visitors were allowed to go inside the tower and climb to the top, however, the tower remain closed in late 1990's. During the academic year, there are weekly live performances on Mondays at noon, with few exceptions. At least once a quarter, weekend perfomance may be heard.

Directly northwest of the Bell tower, there used to be the Commons student center which included study rooms and restaurants. This four-decades old building was demolished at the end of 2005. Construction is under way to more than double the size of the center from 603.87 square meters to 1319.22 square meters (65,000 square feet to 142,000 square feet). The new $50 million Commons (slated for completion in 2008) will include meeting rooms, dining areas and places to study.

Southeast of the Carillon is the Tomás Rivera Library, the main library. Further southeast past the intersection of Citrus and Eucalyptus Avenues are the buildings that make up the instruction halls and research centers of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, including some of the original 1917 buildings.

Botanic Gardens

Forming the eastern border of the Riverside campus are the Botanic Gardens, which occupy 40 acres of rugged terrain in the Box Springs foothills. Prominent natural features include two arroyos and a variety of plants native to the site, including brittlebush (Encelia farinosa), California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum), California sagebrush (Artemisia californica) and deerweed (Lotus scoparius). More than four miles of hiking trails traverse the grounds.

In addition to supporting research and education at UCR, the gardens offer a place of respite for students, visitors, and members of the community. Though maintained separately from the Botanic Gardens, UCR’s campus grounds are also landscaped with plants that thrive in Riverside's climate.

UCR Palm Desert

In fall 2005, UCR opened a new graduate center in Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley. Initially funded by a $6 million gift from a local entrepreneur, the Richard J. Heckmann International Center for Entrepreneurial Management was founded in 2001 and was UCR's first institutional presence in the area. The school encourages Entrepreneurship through an Angel Network, called the Coachella Valley Angel Network (CVAN). The campus focuses on providing master's level instruction in management and in the fine arts.

Administration

UCR is one of the campuses of the University of California, which is governed by a Board of Regents and administered by a president, who at present is Robert C. Dynes. The administrative head of UCR is Chancellor France A. Córdova.

Chancellors of UC Riverside

• Gordon S. Watkins (provost) (1949-1956)
• Herman Spieth (provost and chancellor) (1956-1964)
• Ivan Hinderaker (chancellor) (July, 1964-1979)
• Tomás Rivera (chancellor) First minority UC chancellor (1979 - died in May, 1984)
• Daniel G. Aldrich (acting chancellor until March 1985)
• Theodore L. Hullar (March, 1985 to 1987)
• Rosemary S.J. Schraer First female UC Chancellor (1987 - 1992)
• Raymond L. Orbach (1992 to 2002)
• France A. Córdova (July, 2002 to present)

Academics

Academic colleges, divisions, and schools

• A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management
• Bourns College of Engineering
• College of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences
• College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences
• Division of Biomedical Sciences
• Graduate Division
• Graduate School of Education
• Thomas Haider; current Medical School program which awards M.D. from UCLA
• Medical School, In November 2006, the UC Regents approved the plan.
• University Extension

Detailed information can be found here.

Faculty demographics and distinctions

The sex and ethnic breakdown of the full-time faculty in 2004 was:

• Male — 74.7 percent
• Female — 25.3 percent

• White — 73 percent
• Asian or Pacific Islander — 17.7 percent
• Hispanic — 4.6 percent
• Black — 2.4 percent

Between 1995 and 2002, among all institutions in the country, UC Riverside has had either the largest or second-largest number of faculty members named as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. A total of 69 UCR faculty members had been elected as fellows through 2002

Admissions

For the incoming freshman class of Fall 2006, the average High School GPA was 3.59, the average SAT Reasoning score was 1674, and the average ACT Composite score was 23. Additionally, 43.4% were first generation college students, 38.7% had a low family income, and 24% came from a high school with a low API score. Also, 5.6% of admits came from rural areas, 40.2% came from urban areas, and 54.2% came from suburban areas.

Rankings

In the 2007 issue of US News and World Report's "America's Best College", UC Riverside was ranked 88th among national universities and 39th among public institutions,

Its undergraduate business program was ranked 77th (of 141), and its undergraduate engineering program was 87th (out of 102).

In 2006, the Washington Monthly, which assesses the quality of schools based on social mobility (e.g., percentage of Pell Grant recipients who graduate), academic quality (e.g., percentage of graduates who go on to earn Ph.D.s), and community service ranked UCR 22nd among National Universities.

In the Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges, 2006'" guide (ISBN) UCR was listed as one of the "Best Western Colleges" and one of "America's Best Value Colleges". However, the Princeton Review also ranked UCR as one of the worst 20 colleges in the nation for "Professors Get Low Marks ", "Teaching Assistants Teach Too Many Upper-Level Courses" and "Professors Make Themselves Scarce."

Research areas

UCR hosts over 40 distinct research centers, groups and projects spanning the fields of the humanities, social sciences, management, education, engineering, and natural sciences. Prominent research centers include:

Air Pollution Research Center

In 1961, the Air Pollution Research Center was established at UCR, due to air pollution having been recognized a decade earlier as a leading cause of crop injury in the Los Angeles Basin. Recently, the American Lung Association ranked Riverside County first in its "Top 26 U.S. Counties Most Polluted by Annual Particle Pollution," with nearby San Bernardino County ranking second. Faculty from the environmental sciences, plant sciences and chemistry departments, as well as the Center for Environmental Research and Technology of the College of Engineering are assigned to the center.

Native American Studies

UCR has long been the recipient of significant support from members of the California Indian community. UCR owes its founding in part to the work of Rupert and Jeannette Costo, a Cahuilla hydrologist and a Cherokee reporter, who took part in the initial campaign to locate a branch of the University of California at Riverside. In 1986, the Costos established the Costo Chair of American Indian Affairs at UCR, the first endowed chair of American Indian Studies in the United States and the first academic chair ever endowed at Riverside. They also bequeathed UCR their vast collections, establishing the Costo Library of the American Indian and Costo Archive.

Today, UCR also hosts the Center for California Native Nations, an interdisiplinary research institute dedicated to supporting research for and about the Native Nations of California. UCR's History Department grants a master of arts degree as well as a doctorate in American Indian history. UCR also hosts an interdisciplinary program granting a bachelor of arts in Native American studies through the Ethnic Studies department.

In addition, there are Native American student programs and outreach services as well as high school recruitment at the nearby Sherman Indian School. These programs both recruit and aid Native American students. Over 30 federally recognized Indian nations reside in Riverside County].

UC Mexus

UCR hosts the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, an interdisiplinary research institute dedicated to developing and coordinating a university-wide approach to Mexico-related studies. UCR's Department of Hispanic Studies grants degrees in Spanish, while a BA degree in Chicano/a Studies is offered through the Ethnic Studies Department.

Riverside Regional Technology Park

UCR is a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which includes the City of Riverside and the County of Riverside. The park is intended to assist entrepreneurs in developing new products.

Educational Initiatives

Thomas Haider Program in Biomedical Sciences

This program offers a joint medical degree program with UCLA. The first two years of medical instruction are given on the UCR campus. Third- and fourth-year clerkships are served at UCLA and its affiliated medical centers. Students completing the program receive a bachelor of science degree in biomedical sciences from UCR and an M.D. degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Before 2002 the joint program was an accelerated seven-year track offered exclusively to biomedical science majors. In that year, however, the program was lengthened to eight years and opened to all qualified majors at UC Riverside. Up to 24 of each year's applicants are chosen to attend medical school at UCR and UCLA.

Active Construction Projects

• Alumni and Vistors Center
  
• New campus commons expansion
  
• Engineering Unit 3 and Materials Science Building
  
• Psychology Research Building
  
• Genomics Building
  
• Arroyo Student Housing Apartments
  
• CHASS Instructional and Research Center
  
• Students Academic Support Services Building

Labor Studies and Marxist Studies

• Labor studies is an interdisciplinary minor focusing on the conditions, activities, and struggles of workers from an international, contemporary, comparative and historical perspective. Trade unions are the primary focus, but students also examine organizing by women and people of color. In addition to taking elective courses in fields including business administration, history and philosophy , students complete an internship with a union or labor-related community organization.
• Marxist studies is also an interdisciplinary minor. It studies Marxism as a theoretical and methodological framework. Faculty members come from the departments of Anthropology, English, Economics, Ethnic Studies, History, Philosophy, Religious Studies and Sociology.

Proposed professional schools

Plans to establish both a law school and a medical school have been in progress since Chancellor Orbach’s administration in the 1990s, with the medical school proposal attracting substantial support from industry as well as the local community. The Regents approved UCR's med school proposal on November 16, 2006, and plans to enroll the first four-year medical students in fall 2012.

International initiatives

UCR operates International Education Centers in Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China. As well as professional English language training, the centers also offer programs in teacher training, management and economics. Students can transfer credits to UCR and are encouraged to continue their studies in California.

Libraries and collections

UCR's library system is divided into general collections, music, media, and science. General collections are housed in the Tomás Rivera Library which has four floors. The current Science Library which was finished in 1999 includes collections in the physical, natural and agricultural sciences, biomedical sciences, and engineering and computer sciences. The original science library only had about eight computers and two floors of book collections.

The university has special research collections and museums, including an herbarium, one of the world's most important citrus variety collections, and one of the largest entomological museums in the United States.

Other features:

• UCR is host to the world's largest academic collection of Star Trek material, and it houses the 80,000-volume Eaton Collection of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and utopian literature — the world's largest such compilation available to the general public.

• UCR administers the UCR/California Museum of Photography in downtown Riverside. With more than 500,000 photographic images and related materials, the museum constitutes the most comprehensive photographic collection in the West; it includes Ansel Adams' Fiat Lux 1965 archive containing photos of UC campuses. Much of the museum's collection is viewable online; its website receives 3.5 million visitors a year and is the most visited photography museum website in the world.

• The campus library is the home of the world's largest research collection of material on B. Traven, the author of the novel Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Student Life

Student Demographics

Enrollment first surpassed 10,000 students in 1998, Fall 2005 enrollment totaled 16,622 students, of which 14,571 were undergraduates and 2,051 were postgraduates. 90.5 percent of the students came from California, 0.7 were from elsewhere in the United States, 0.8 were international students and 8 percent were unspecified. About 30 percent of the students were enrolled from Riverside or San Bernardino counties. Of bachelor's degrees awarded, 60% are completed within four years, 33% within five years, and 7% within six years. The campus is projected to grow to 21,000 students by 2010. It will continue to grow to about 22,000 students by the year 2015. U.S. News Best Colleges and Universities 2007 ranked UCR as 5th most diverse campus in the nation and was tied with UC Berekely as having the largest Asian student body. The ethnic breakdown was:

• Asian/Asian-American — 43%.
• Caucasian/White — 24.8%
• Chicano/Latino — 22.4%
• No response or unknown — 8.2%
• African American — 5.9%
• Other ethnic — 2.1%
• Native American — 0.4%

Athletics

• UCR athletic teams became known as the "Highlanders" in 1954. The name reflects UCR's location as the highest elevation campus among all UC schools and imparts a Scottish spirit to the campus.

In 1998, the student body voted for UCR athletics to enter NCAA Division I competition, and student athletes requested a redesign of the mascot. UCR partnered with New York based SME Design, Inc., a logo development company, to develop the design of a bear featuring a half-blue face in homage to William Wallace, the Scottish hero and subject of the movie Braveheart. The tartan the bear wears reflects the blue and gold tartans worn by the UCR Pipe Band, and is itself also a registered trademark of the University of California.

• UCR is in the NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference. Programs include women's volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, tennis and golf, all for both men and women. Football was played until 1975, then discontinued. The cost of a football program, coupled with the legal necessity of allocating an equivalent sum of money to women's sports, makes it unlikely that football will be restored, Athletic Director Stan Morrison has written.

• The volleyball and basketball teams play home games in the Student Recreation Center, which seats 3,168. The baseball team competes at the Riverside Sports Complex, just off campus at the corner of Blaine and Rustin streets. Softball is played at the Amy S. Harrison Field, adjacent to the UCR Soccer Stadium on the Lower Fields.

• UC Riverside does not have a traditional pep band in support of basketball games, but it does assemble a rock band with horns, a guitar player. Because of NCAA restrictions against amplified instruments like those used in rock music, UCR sometimes hires a pep band from other colleges such as UC Irvine and UC Santa Barbara for Big West Tournament games. UC Riverside also has a dedicated bagpipe band made up of students and staff, which plays at graduation and other campus events. For the women's basketball team's appearance at the NCAA Tournament against North Carolina in March 2006, UCR sent 22 members of the pipe band to support the team and play at halftime.

Student organizations

• The school has quite a few fraternities and sororities. Alpha Phi Omega is the first national fraternity approved on January 10th of 1968. In the late 1990's, none of them had on-campus houses due to physical limiation, historical reasons and the local laws. Most fraternities had about twenty or so members. Unlike other fraternities and sororities where most members are Caucasians, the Greek organizations at UCR have many Asian and Hispanic members due to the student population. There are also ethnic based fraternities and sororities for Asians, Blacks and Hispanics.

• The campus hosts KUCR, a student- and community-programmed radio station, which broadcasts at 88.3 FM from the Box Springs Mountains. The station plays a variety of independent music.

• The Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR) is the official representative of undergraduates on the Riverside campus. It is guided by a Senate composed of 20 elected officers representing three undergraduate colleges in proportion to their enrollment.

• The Associated Students Program Board (ASPB) is a fourteen-member student organization responsible for planning on campus entertainment to students. ASPB is comprised of six various student run divisions which include; concerts, films and lectures, cultural events, special events as well as a marketing and leadership division. ASPB's major events include the Block Party Concert, Student Film Festival, International Film Festival, World Fest, Welcome Week, Homecoming and Spring Splash. .

Housing

UCR's residence halls consist of three structures: Aberdeen-Inverness, Lothian, and Pentland Hills, which house more than 3,000 students (including 75% of the freshman class) in triple, double and single rooms. UCR also features a large array of on-campus apartment complexes such as Stonehaven, Bannockburn and Village Plaza, and International Village. UCR also offers family student housing at the Canyon Crest Family Student Housing community. In fall 2007, Arroyo Student housing, an upscale housing complex adjacent to Pentland Hills, will open for juniors and seniors.

Reflecting UCR's diversity, a number of ethnic-, gender- and academic-oriented residence halls or theme floors have been established. These include a hall for students in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; a hall for students in the University Honors program; combined halls for majors in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences and the Bourns College of Engineering; and a hall for transfer students. Student-initiated theme halls include Unete a Mundo, for students seeking to support Latino or Chicano students in acclimating to life at UCR; a Pan African Theme Hall for students interested in developing consciousness of African culture in relation to other cultures of the world; and Stonewall Hall, dedicated to students of all gender identities and sexual orientations who wish to live in a gender-neutral community.

According to a 2005 College Board profile, 28 percent of all undergraduates lived on the campus. Housing is available to all students for their first year, and 76 percent of all first-year students lived on campus. Thirty percent of students remained on campus for the weekend.

Campus security

Campus security is handled by the University of California Police Department, which sends bulletins and other crime-prevention information via e-mail. The department has a website that contains information about the department, safety, crime prevention, crime statistics, a press log and crime bulletins . Officers are involved in outreach to community groups and student programs, and about one third are UCR graduates. The student newspaper has a weekly column titled The Rap Sheet, which highlights police activity for the previous week.

Notable alumni and faculty

• List of University of California, Riverside people

See also

• University of California
• University of California Students Association
• California Master Plan for Higher Education

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External links

• Official UCR site
• UCR Libraries
• UCR Athletics
• Campus map
• Web tour
• The Highlander The student newspaper
• Fiat Lux The Campus magazine. In Fall of 2006, it was renamed "UCR" - The magazine of UC Riverside.
• Digital History Archive of UCR
• UCR Facts and Impacts
• 50th Anniversary Timeline
• UCR Bell Tower Fund
• StudentsReview.com UC Riverside reviews
• Sloan Center for Internet Retailing
• eLab 2.0

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