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2024-25 CHASS Faculty Awards
CHASS Teaching Award The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences invites nominations for the 2024-2025 CHASS Teaching Award. The award is made annually to recognize outstanding achievement in teaching by a faculty member of the College. Nominees must be Senate or Unit 18 instructional faculty (Academic Student Employees are not eligible) whose teaching is...

2024-25 Chairs and Directors
Colleagues, I take this opportunity to announce the appointments, reappointments, and extensions of several CHASS department chairs and directors. I also offer heartfelt thanks to our outgoing unit heads for their dedication to our academic mission, teaching, research, and service. The leadership appointments below have been reviewed and approved by UCR’s Academic Personnel Office and...

CHASS: State of the College 2024
We take this opportunity to celebrate our milestones and look to the future of CHASS. The 2024 State of the College was in person and recorded on Wednesday, October 23, at The Barn. The presentation featured live music by The Octave Collectors, Shannon Brady’s award-winning 2024 Grad Slam presentation, and words by CHASS Dean Daryle...

UCR Reaccreditation by Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Senior College and University Commission
CHASS WASC Subcommittee Members Katrice R Calloway, CHASS Dean's Office, Budget & Operations Manager Holly A Easley, MDU, Academic Advisor Covadonga Lamar Prieto, Assoc Dean for Student Academic Affairs Ryan Lipinski, Assistant Dean for Student Success James Tobias, Professor and Chair of English Committee Support Loren Bacallo Summer Espinoza Jeff Girod Erika Leon Dear Colleagues...

FY25 Budget Letter
Dear CHASS faculty, staff, students, and friends: As the new academic year approaches, I write with important updates on the financial state of the College. As the fourth largest academic unit across the entire UC, as measured by undergraduate enrollments, our ambitious research, instructional, and service missions are resource-intensive. Every year, but especially the current...

CHASS Staff Announcement
Colleagues, It’s been an active time for recruiting, retaining, and developing our dedicated staff in the mighty College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Take a look below! Recruitments In the last 12 months, CHASS has successfully completed 47 staff recruitments across more than 19 academic and administrative units. Please welcome to the College new...

CHASS Faculty Announcement
Dear Colleagues, With great pleasure, we commemorate another active season for Senate recruitments in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Please join me on Wednesday, October 2, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., in INTS 1109 at the CHASS Fall Welcome to help celebrate all of our staff and faculty hires. Open to all...

VAIN showcases creative opportunities with CHASS support
At UC Riverside, creative opportunities and student success are at the heart of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS). VAIN, a student-led fashion editorial club at UCR, held its spring 2024 runway fashion show at UCR ARTS which was co-sponsored by the Office of the Dean. Held on April 5, VAIN’s spring...
By Alejandra Prado, Student Writer/CHASS Marketing and Communications |

Announcement: Alesha Jaennette
Colleagues, As I expand my role in graduate studies, I am also building a team. Today, I’m delighted to announce that Ale sha Jaennette has accepted a position as the Graduate Student Services Lead for CHASS, effective July 15, 2024. In her new role, Alesha will work closely with me to establish long-term organizational goals...

Announcement: CHASS Leadership
Colleagues, With great pleasure, I announce that Covadonga “Cova” Lamar Prieto, Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies, has been appointed Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her five-year term began on July 1, 2024. Cova takes on a leadership position familiar to many colleges across the University of California that have been reimagined to meet...