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Mt. San Jacinto College has been named the Large Business of the Year for 2023 by the Menifee Chamber of Commerce. Roger Schultz,  president and superintendent of the community college, and Vicki Carpenter, who represents Menifee on the school’s board of trustees, accepted the award at the college’s April 29 …

UC Riverside closed its economic research center, several weeks after questions were raised regarding the school’s relationship with the private consulting firm that ran that operation. Beacon Economics in Los Angeles will no longer run the Center for Economic Forecasting Development, which Beacon has run since the company was founded …

More than 1,200 Inland Empire high school students are expected to participate March 10 in the Virtual Enterprises’ Inland Empire Regional Conference and Exhibition at Cal State San Bernardino. The event, sponsored by the Inland Empire Center for Entrepreneurship, will feature students who run virtual businesses from their classroom, according …

UC Riverside outperformed the University of California system in freshman applications for this year’s fall semester. Applications to the nine UC campuses were down 2.2 percent year-over-year, but UC Riverside received 3.7 percent more requests for admission in that time, according to a statement on the school’s website. The school …

California Baptist University has received a $28.5 million donation, the largest gift in the school’s 73-year history. The grant is from real estate developer Dale E. Fowler and his wife, Sarah Ann, who were “early and significant” supporters of the Riverside campus, according to a statement posted on the school’s …

A research institute affiliated with UC Riverside is under fire from some UC faculty and staff, who are calling for an investigation into the eight-year relationship between the two entities. Beacon Economics LLC, a Los Angeles-based private consulting firm, has been researching and publishing economic reports under the name UC …