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May 09, 2025
UCR addresses teacher shortage in San Bernardino
Addressing a critical teacher shortage, UC Riverside has partnered with the San Bernardino City Unified School District to launch a new teacher residency program that fully covers tuition, provides living stipends, and guarantees teaching jobs for successful participants.

May 08, 2025
Framework offered for higher ed to defend racial equity
As the nation’s colleges and universities respond to the U.S. Supreme Court’s “race-neutral” admissions mandates and the Trump administration’s efforts to cut funding to campuses with DEI programs, a UC Riverside education professor urges institutions to respond to racial inequalities by working to improve their “racial climate health”—a concept she developed that draws from the medical and public health fields.
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rank of Best Graduate Education Programs in the nation per U.S. News & World Report
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percent of entering doctoral students receive multiyear fellowships
86
percent of students receive grants, scholarships, and fellowships
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million plus dollars in grant money awarded to faculty in the last five years
73
percent of first-generation undergraduate students (2024-2025)