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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. …

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, …

G. Gabrielle Starr was inaugurated Saturday as president of Pomona College. Starr, who has been on the job for several months, was formally installed during a ceremony at Bridges Auditorium, according to a statement on the school’s website. Starr, who formerly ran Pomona College’s English department, is the school’s 10th …

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 …

UC Riverside has received a federal grant that will help its researchers put their work to commercial use. The school has received a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation “to provide in-house commercialization training for UCR faculty and staff over the next five years,” according to a statement on …