Supporting Graduate Students

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Supporting Graduate Students

Challenges Facing Graduate Students

Graduate education is a core priority for the University of California, Riverside and an essential driver of our research, teaching, and public service mission. Past investments in graduate education have collectively been substantial but the challenges facing individual students have been mounting for many years. UCR faculty, staff, and administrators are, by and large, graduate degree holders. We understand these challenges and are committed to working with our students to address them.

On these pages, you will find information about graduate student wages, housing, job prospects, and mental health. 

If you are looking for information on graduate recruitment, admissions, academic affairs, fellowships, grants, employment, and mentoring please visit the UCR Graduate Division website.

Updates

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Graduate Student Support at UCR

Dear Colleagues, Graduate education is a core priority for the University of California, Riverside and an essential driver of our research, teaching, and public service mission. Unrelenting cost of living escalation in California has resulted in recent unrest at UC...
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Graduate Student News

Aunts and LGBTQ youth- FHAM Project- GettyImages
December 29, 2023
Aunts, aunties, and ‘tías’ offer protection to their LGBTQ youth relatives
Study on youth from the Inland Empire and South Texas points to how these “othermothers” offer emotional safety, housing stability.
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October 20, 2023
Halloween: Black horror films at UCR ARTS
All films are free and open to the public. Screenings run through Oct. 28.
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A coalition of labor unions and community-based organizations protest a new Amazon air cargo distribution center in San Bernardino, where air pollution and rates of asthma rank among worst in the nation, 2019. Photo: Courtesy of Anthony Victoria, The Frontline Observer.
October 13, 2023
Exhibition on environmental justice is a rally for change
A two-week pop-up exhibition opens on Saturday, Oct. 14. It aims to offer resources to teachers and inform the community at large.
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