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Undergraduate Education—Spring 2022 Newsletter

A Message from the Interim Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education May 18, 2022 Dear Colleagues, I’m excited to be serving as UCR’s Interim Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education! This is my 21st year at UCR, and I’ve watched this office grow and contribute to the success of our undergraduate students in...

Winter 2022 Undergraduate Education Newsletter

A Message from the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education January 2022 Dear UCR Community, After enduring more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, UCR is once again in the midst of another quarter unlike any other. We are in a fluid environment and have begun Winter 2022 cautiously in light of the...

Spring 2021 Undergraduate Education Newsletter

A Message from the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education April 2021, Spring Quarter One year ago, faculty and staff undertook the intense labor of moving UCR’s teaching enterprise from in-person classroom- and lab-based work to a remote format in an effort to ensure access and equity for all students. Then-interim CIO David Gracey...
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Winter Term Undergraduate Education Newsletter

A Message from the Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education January 2021 Dear UCR Community, As I watched the violence at the Capitol on January 6th, I immediately began to process what occurred that day and began to reflect on the state of the nation, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the murder of George Floyd...
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Navigating the Fall Term

Dear UCR Community, We begin this fall term amidst social, economic, and health crises of unprecedented scope and impact. I know these tremendous challenges are top of mind for all of us as fall classes approach. I find encouragement in the hard work of our students, staff, and faculty in preparation for this historic term...
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Undergraduate Education's Response to the Pandemic

Dear UCR Community, I have spent the last few months thinking about what it means to be a part of the UC Riverside community. The campus is physically closed, but much of the university’s work has continued remotely —activities such as teaching and research advances outside of the physical buildings that have been our intellectual...