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The University of California, Riverside, commonly known as UCR or UC Riverside, is a public, coeducational university and one of ten campuses of the University of California. Its 1,200-acre main campus is in a suburban district of Riverside, California, with a branch campus in Palm Desert. Founded in 1907 as the University of California Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside research pioneered biological control, the use of natural predators to reduce pest populations, and the use of growth regulators responsible for extending the citrus growing season in California from 4 months to 9 months.

Its undergraduate college was founded in 1954. While UCR historically comprised one of the smallest enrollments in the UC system, averaging 5000 students for most of its history, currently its student population is projected to grow by 6% annually through 2010, the fastest rate in the system. It currently is the most diverse of all the UC campuses. Plans are currently underway to open California's first new medical school in 40 years at UCR by 2012.

History

The Citrus Experiment Station

On February 14, 1907, the University of California Board of Regents, in response to heavy lobbying from the Southern California citrus industry, established the UC Citrus Experiment Station on 23 acres of land on the east slope of Mt. Rubidoux in Riverside. The first navel oranges grown in the United States were planted in Riverside in 1873. By the turn of the century, amateur horticulturists had developed citrus into the region's primary cash crop. The purpose of the new station was to support the burgeoning citrus industry by conducting experiments in fertilization, irrigation and crop improvement. In 1917, the laboratory was expanded and 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 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. 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. The first buildings of the new campus included: the library, Webber Hall, Physical Sciences, Physical Education, and Social Sciences.

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. While enrollment began to make modest but sustained annual gains, more than doubling by 1991, an economic recession reduced enrollment throughout California's public higher education systems during the early nineties.

Tidal Wave II to today

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 19,900 students enrolled at UCR by 2010.

As enrollment increased, so did the ethnic diversity of the student body. By 1995, fully 30 percent of UCR students were members of non-Caucasian groups, the highest proportion of any campus in the UC system at the time. 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.

With UCR and the surrounding region scheduled for dramatic population growth, a likewise push has been made to increase its popular and academic recognition. The students voted to increase fees to move UCR athletics into NCAA Division I standing in 1998. Proposals to establish a law school and a medical school at UCR have been in development since the 90s. In June 2006, UCR recieved its largest gift, 15.5 million from two local couples, in trust towards building its medical school. The Regents formally approved UCR’s medical school proposal in November 2006, and a search is currently underway for its founding dean.

Main Campus

The UCR main campus is located within the City of Riverside in western Riverside County, three miles east of downtown, and comprises 1,112 acres divided into eastern and western boundaries by the California State Route 60 freeway. Nearly half of the total acreage is devoted to agricultural teaching and research fields, most of which are located west of the freeway.

The University Avenue underpass of Route 60 forms a "gateway" between UCR and the City of Riverside. Painted on the support walls of the underpass 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.

West Campus

Of the 511 acres of UCR property comprising the West Campus, approximately 295 acres are citrus groves and row crops used primarily by the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences. University Extension, the USDA Germplasm Repository, International Village (student housing), a parking lot, office buildings (Human Resources and Highlander Hall), and other small facilities are also located on the West Campus. University Village, a mixed use development located across from University Avenue adjacent to the freeway, provides a movie theater, stores, restaurants, office space, an apartment complex, as well as a parking structure and surface parking. The movie theaters serve as lecture halls during the day, with a shuttle taking students to and from campus every 15 minutes.

East Campus

The East Campus, comprising approximately 600.8 acres, provides the setting for the core cluster of academic buildings. Devoted primarily to teaching and research, it includes student and administrative services, the Student Commons and the Rivera and Science Libraries. Student housing is provided in its northernmost portion near the Box Spring Mountains, with residence halls, family housing, apartment housing, and recreation facilities. Wide grassy pedestrian malls run throughout the center and outlying areas.

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 161 feet tall and contains 48 bells, cast in France. The bells cover four chromatic octaves and weigh from 28 to 5,091 pounds. They were first heard in 1966 and were part of the initial broadcast of the campus radio station, KUCR.During the academic year there are weekly live performances, with an occasional performance on the weekends.

The Commons student center was previously located directly northwest of the Bell tower. The four-decades old building was demolished at the end of 2005, and construction is under way to more than double the size of the center from 65,000 to 142,000 square feet. Currently the cafeteria is host to the "Temporary Student Commons" containing student dining, study areas, as well as pool tables and arcade games that used to be located in the demolished student Commons. The new $50 million Commons (slated for completion in 2008) will include meeting rooms, dining areas and places to study.

Southeast of the Bell tower 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.

Active Construction Projects

Since 1999, more than $730 million dollars have been invested in construction projects. Active construction projects include:

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

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

As a campus of the University of California system, UCR is governed by a Board of Regents and administered by a president. The current president is Robert C. Dynes and the administrative head of UCR is Acting Chancellor Robert Grey.

Chancellors

Academics

UCR is organized into eight 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 and Agricultural Sciences
• Division of Biomedical Sciences, which currently administers the Thomas Haider program and is in the process of developing a full-fledged medical school.
• Graduate Division
• Graduate School of Education
• University Extension

UCR provides 78 majors and 45 minors, 50 Master's degree programs, and 38 Ph.D programs. It is the only UC campus to offer an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing and, along with the Berkeley campus, one of only two UCs to offer an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. Additionally, it is the only UC to offer a doctoral program in Dance History and Theory.

Admissions

UCR is one of the more accessible UC campuses. Of freshman admits for the Fall of 2006, High School GPAs averaged 3.59, SAT Reasoning scores averaged 1674, and the average ACT Composite score was 23. Additionally, 43.4% were first generation college students, 38.7% from low family income backgrounds, and 24% graduated from high schools with low API scores. Geographically, UCR admitted 5.6% from rural areas, 40.2% from urban areas, and 54.2% from suburban areas.

However, UC Riverside graduates 64 percent of its students in six years, without regards to economic disparity. This is an anomaly in higher education. According to Richard Whitmire, USA Today editorial writer:

“The knee-jerk explanation — that Riverside must succeed by limiting the number of poor and minority students admitted — is wrong. Riverside is very diverse, especially with Latino students, and 45% of its students receive federal Pell grants for poor students... ...The real answer emerges from a study recently released by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education: Riverside treats students differently. Incoming freshmen get year-long orientation sessions that reach out to low-income students who are the first in their family to attend colleges. Those students get offered extra sessions by professors. A special campus center is devoted to encouraging minority students to take on math and science majors. In short, the university pays a whole lot of attention to solving the problem.”

Rankings

In the 2007 issue of US News and World Report's "America's Best Colleges," 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, 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."

Faculty demographics and distinctions

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

• Male — 74.7%
• Female — 25.3%

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

Since 1997, more than 110 UCR faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Over the course of UCR's history, seven current or former faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and over 50 have received Guggenheim Fellowships.

According to the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index published by Academic Analytics in 2006, UCR faculty ranked 1st in soil science, 5th in Environmental Health Engineering, 8th in Environmental Sciences, 10th in Plant Pathology, and 10th in Botany. Additionally, UCR as an institution ranked 46th among top research institutions measured by Academic Analytics in 2005. The Philosophical Gourmet Report ranked UCR's faculty in philosophy 38th in the nation and 40th in the English-speaking world, with the No. 1 program in philosophy of action.

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. UCR faculty received nearly $87 million in research funding in 2005-06, mostly from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. Total research expenditures at Riverside are significantly concentrated in agriculture. Over the course of UCR's history, Riverside researchers have developed more than 40 new citrus varieties and helped the $960 million-a-year California citrus industry fight pests and diseases. In 2002, Riverside research had a $329 million upper limit in economic and fiscal impacts in the state, and supported 10,828 jobs in the area. Top research centers at Riverside by expenditure, as measured in 2002, include:

• Agricultural Experiment Station

• Center for Environmental Research and Technology

• Center for Bibliographical Studies

• Air Pollution Research Center

• Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics

• Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice

• Center for Ideas and Society

• Center for Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Center for Research in Intelligent Systems

• Center for Nanoscience and Engineering

Some notable 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.

Center for California Native Nations

UCR hosts the Center for California Native Nations, an interdisiplinary research institute dedicated to supporting research for and about the Native Nations of California. This center is supported by the Costo Chair in American Indian Affairs and the Costo Archive of materials relating to American Indian Studies. UCR's History Department grants a master of arts degree as well as a doctorate in American Indian history, and the Ethnic Studies Dept grants a bachelor of arts in Native American studies. 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.

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 medical 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 Gangnam, Seoul, South Korea and Beijing, China. The centers are run in partnership with local authorities and offer the same English language training programs as the main campus in Riverside. 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.

Special 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.

• The UCR library administers INFOMINE, an online guide to scholarly resources on the internet.

• UCR is host to the 110,000-volume Eaton collection of science fiction, horror, fantasy, and utopian literature — the world's largest such compilation available to the general public, including the largest collection of Star Trek material.

• 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.

• The Western Region Tuskegee Airmen Archive, an effort to preserve documents and personal papers of the Tuskegee Airmen, was initiated in 2006.

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 Berkeley 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 is in the NCAA Division I of the Big West Conference. Programs include volleyball, soccer, cross country, basketball, indoor and outdoor track and field, baseball, softball, tennis and golf, all for both men and women except for volleyball. Football was played until 1975, and won two state championships before it was discontinued due to the economical impact of Proposition 13 and Title IX on the school. UCR's intramural Karate Club is internationally known and organized under the auspices of the AJKA-I, an independent, national karate organization also hosted at UCR. It annually holds the Shotokan Karate Championships competition in the SRC . For the past two years, the UCR Women's basketball team has represented the Big West Conference in the NCAA Division I tournament but was unfortunately only able to make it to the first round of playoffs. In 2005 the women's soccer team also made it to the first round of the NCAA tournament. Furthermore in 2007 the baseball team won its first Big West conference championship and made it to the regionals for the second time since moving to the Division 1 level in 2001.

The schools only NCAA titles came while at the Division II level; baseball in 1977 and 1982 and women's volleyball in 1982 and 1986. Also two athletes have won individual championships in men's golf at the DII level; Gary McCord in 1970 and Matt Bloom in 1974.

Mascot

With UCR being located at the highest elevation of all UCs, the students adopted the name Highlanders in 1954 from a student write-in campaign. After the student body passed a referendum to move to Division I competition in 1998, student athletes demanded a redesigned 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 mascot's name is Scotty the bear, and the tartan he 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.

Facilities

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.

Spirit

Early in the history of the school, UC Riverside did field a traditional student-run pep band in support of athletic events (playing for football games before the program was dropped), but the athletic director dissolved it in 2002 in favor of a "little rock band." In early 2007, the the rock band broke up and student pep band re-formed. It now performs for the men's and women's home basketball games and Big West Tournament and NCAA game appearances. UCR also fields a traditional cheer team, a "Highlander Girls" dance team, and also 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 first appearance at the NCAA Tournament in 2006, UCR sent 22 members of the pipe band to support the team and play at halftime due to the lack of a pep band at the time. More recently with the reformation of the pep band, nine members of the pipe band team supplemented the UCR pep band for the women's second appearance at the first round of the NCAA basketball tournament at the Galen Center.

Student organizations

Greek Chapters

The school has many fraternities and sororities. Alpha Phi Omega is the first national fraternity approved on January 10th of 1968. In the late 1990s, most of them did not have on-campus houses due to physical limitation, historical reasons and local laws. The racial diversity of UCR is also reflected in the variety of ethnic based fraternities and sororities.

KUCR Radio

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.

ASUCR

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.

ASPB

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, 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, 'Glen Mor' Arroyo Student housing, an upscale housing complex adjacent to Pentland Hills, will open for juniors and seniors. Also in 2007, the University purchased a nearby Apartment complex orginally called "The Crest" and is now named Falkirk Apartments .

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 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 (UCPD), which sends bulletins and other crime-prevention information via e-mail. Police officers of the University of California Police Department are armed, duly sworn peace officers of the State of California. Empowered by section 830.2(b) of the California Penal Code, UCPD officers possess the same authority, and adhere to the same state-mandated standards, as municipal police officers. Therefore, under California law, UCPD officers may enforce laws and make arrests anywhere in the state however, they concentrate their focus on the campus and its immediate environs. UCPD operates 24 hour a day, 365 days a year as it serves as the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) for all 9-1-1 system calls originating from telephones located on campus. The department employs full-time Police Officers and part-time Community Service Officers (CSOs, which are student employees) to provide public safety services to the campus community.

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.

Revenues

UCR operated under a $435 million dollar budget in fiscal year 2005-2006. $153 million was provided by the state government, while student fees provided for $111 million. $84 million was provided by the federal government, and $45 million was provided by university sales and services. Private support and other sources accounted for the remaining $18 million.

All in all, monies spent at UCR have an economic impact of nearly $1 billion in California, more than 70 percent of which directly and indirectly benefits Inland Southern California.

Overseas investment controversies

As part of a UC-wide effort in 2006, student members of USAS picketed Chancellor Cordova's office to protest UCR’s contracts with corporations that exploit overseas factory workers. Although that issue is still unresolved, in 2006 the Regents did vote to divest the system from companies tied to the government of Sudan, in protest of the ongoing conflict in Dafur.

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
• Campus map
• Fiat Lux The Campus magazine. In Fall of 2006, it was renamed "UCR" - The magazine of UC Riverside.

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