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Program designed to help Inland Empire high school students

Started 18 months ago, International Business Partners already has several of its students attending college. Now it hopes to get bigger.  A year and a half ago, Eddy Sumar put together a program for the Riverside Virtual School designed to get students there interested in pursuing a business career. The …

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Temporary COD campus close to reality

College of the Desert plans to open a temporary campus in Palm Springs in January. The campus will be on property owned by the Palm Springs Unified School District at 1300 E. Baristo Road, according to a statement on the school’s website. It will have 11 classrooms and computer labs …

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Stanford economist to speak at UCR

Stanford economist Raj Chetty will deliver a Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture at UC Riverside. Chetty is scheduled to speak from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Dec. 1 at the University Theatre, according to a statement. The event is free and open to the public. Chetty was one of the youngest tenured professors …

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New website a trove of economic information

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The UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development has started a new website. The site, UCREconomicForecast.org includes a monthly state employment report, an Inland Empire business activity index, a quarterly Inland Intelligence report and an ongoing series of economic papers. “It’s designed to help everyone,” said …

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UCR has record enrollment

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UC Riverside set a record for enrollment during the fall of this year. The school has 23,278 students on campus compared with 22,921 one year ago, according to a statement. During the past four years, UC Riverside’s enrollment has grown nearly 10 percent, from 21,285 students to its present level. …

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UC Riverside names provost and executive vice chancellor

Cynthia K. Larive has been named provost and executive vice chancellor of UC Riverside. Larive, a bio-analytical chemistry scholar, will assume her new duties Nov. 1, according to a statement. She has held those duties on an interim basis since February. Larive joined the UC Riverside faculty in 2005. She …

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