Education Content

Award to Highlight Well-Being in the Classroom

Cody Kitaura — January 21, 2025 - 9:00am

Student Health and Counseling Services’ Health Education and Promotion and the Center for Educational Effectiveness are launching an award to recognize instructors and teaching assistants who prioritize student well-being by doing things like promoting available resources on campus and modeling healthy behaviors.

Alum Changemaker Awarded Prestigious Global Scholarship

Cody Kitaura — January 15, 2025 - 11:06am

After representing more than 230,000 of her peers as UC Student Association president, Celene Aridin is ready to take her advocacy to the global stage. The 2024 �鶹��ý graduate joins an elite cadre of 150 scholars from around the world who will study China’s emerging role in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing as a 2025 Schwarzman Scholar.

Sacramento Part-Time M.B.A. Marks 30 Years

Jocelyn C Anderson — October 16, 2024 - 11:41am

�鶹��ý' Part-Time M.B.A. marks 30 years in Sacramento.

�鶹��ý to Launch Engineering Master’s Degree in Medical Device Development

Bill Kisliuk — September 11, 2024 - 9:00am

The �鶹��ý Department of Biomedical Engineering is launching a new nine-month master’s degree program in medical device development at Aggie Square, the expansive innovation district the university will open in Sacramento in 2025. The program combines hands-on training with entrepreneurial expertise that aims to fast-track careers in industry.

Nursing School in Nation’s Top 25 in Graduate School Rankings

Julia Ann Easley — April 09, 2024 - 9:56am

The Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing tied for 24th place in the nation for master’s degree nursing programs in U.S. News & World Report’s most recent rankings of professional and graduate programs.

The news outlet released updated rankings Monday, April 8, for four disciplines and 11 specialties in its 2024 edition of the Best Graduate Schools.

�鶹��ý C-STEM Trains Redlands Teachers on Bringing Computer Science Into Math

Andy Fell — June 01, 2023 - 11:11am

Twenty-five teachers from Redlands Unified School District in southern California recently completed training in integrating computer science into math education through a joint program offered by the University of California, Davis, and UC Riverside Extension.

$4M More for Professor’s Open Education Platform

Dave Jones — March 14, 2023 - 1:23pm

A $4 million award from the state-funded California Education Learning Lab will help expand LibreTexts, an innovative, open education project founded by Delmar Larsen, chemistry professor in the �鶹��ý College of Letters and Science.

Grants to Explore Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities

Karen Michele Nikos — February 28, 2023 - 2:00pm

Research to probe needs of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in California, provide policy recommendations.

A Renewed Emphasis on Diversity in Faculty Hiring

Cody Kitaura — October 11, 2022 - 3:32pm

�鶹��ý is embracing the philosophy that the world’s most serious problems can be solved only by people with a wide variety of perspectives, and is encouraging colleges and schools all over campus to infuse their recruitments for new faculty members with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Students Put Teaching and Learning Complex to the Test

Cody Kitaura — May 03, 2022 - 11:00am

There are plenty of places on campus to study, but fourth-year civil engineering major Lizzet Sanchez chose a small breakout room in the Teaching and Learning Complex last month because of some of the new building’s unique features.