Monday , March 18 2024

Education

State budget provides funding for UCR Medical School

UC Riverside’s School of Medicine will receive $25 million from the state of California. The state’s $202 billion budget for the 2020-’21 fiscal year, which began July 1, allocates $25 million for the medical school, according to a statement on the university’s website. That will be enough to help the …

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UCR to offer some traditional classes this fall

Classes at UC Riverside this fall will be mostly remote, with some limited classroom instruction that will include a remote-learning option. Priority for in-person classes will go to graduate students, graduate courses, and undergraduate laboratory and studio courses, all of which tend to have fewer students, according to a statement …

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CSUSB fraternity raises money for hospital workers

Members of the Delta Sigma Phi Eta Beta chapter at Cal State San Bernardino raised more than $1,000 through a virtual fundraiser to buy meals for hospital workers at Dignity Health Community Hospital in San Bernardino. The fraternity bought meals from Alanbertos Mexican Food in San Bernardino and then donated …

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CSUSB Palm Desert to hand out 400-plus degrees

Cal State University’s Palm Desert campus will award 421 bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate degrees this spring, the most ever handed out in the campus’s 34-year history. Because if the COVID-19 pandemic, a commencement ceremony will be delayed until such a gathering can be held safely, according to a statement on …

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CSUSB touts summer classes

Cal State San Bernardino is offering extra financial aid to encourage students to enroll in its 2020 summer session. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic that forced the campus to shut down, all summer courses will be conducted online and in a single six-week session, according to a statement on the …

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MSJC makes hospital face shields

Mt. San Jacinto College is making face shields for local hospitals. The shields, which are being donated to medical facilities that have requested them, will give medical workers an extra layer of protection in their battle against COVID-19, according to a statement.  Those hospitals include Hemet Global and Menifee Global …

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