Education

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

Two Inland Empire universities are among the best in the United States at enrolling low-income students and graduating them into well-paying jobs. UC Riverside and Cal Poly Pomona were in the top of the 2017 Social Mobility Index, which was released Tuesday. The index is compiled by CollegeNET, a Portland, …

Alexis King, an English teacher at Ayala High School in Chino Hills, has received a 2017 Milken Educator Award. The award, which is considered the nation’s preeminent teacher recognition honor, includes a $25,000 check that King may spend however she wishes, according to a statement released by the Chino Valley …