New Chancellor

The Chancellor is the chief executive officer of the University of California, Riverside (UCR), and is responsible to the President. Within the scope of University policy, the Chancellor exercises broad authority over and is responsible for all aspects of campus administration.

Candidates should have demonstrated leadership skills in an academic environment; senior experience in the administration of large-scale, diverse, and complex research universities; and a strong scholarly record. Experience in meeting the challenges of a growing and diverse university is preferred.

The University of California, Riverside, the fifth of the ten UC campuses, is a research university with a tradition of excellence in teaching, scholarship, and service to the community. The campus is particularly well-known for the diversity of its undergraduate student population. U.S. News & World Report 2008 ranked UCR third in the nation in ethnic diversity; in 2007, UCR became eligible as an Hispanic Serving Institution.

With 100-year-old roots in the Citrus Experiment Station, UCR has a strong heritage as a land grant institution. The campus' history of relevant research includes an unbroken string of high-impact scientific innovations from saving crops to pioneering genomics. As the only public research university in the rapidly growing Inland Southern California region, UCR is situated in a living laboratory for the exploration of issues critical to growing communities — air, water, energy, transportation, health, public policy, the arts, history, and culture. Yet UCR's impact extends nationally and internationally, with alliances in Asia, Mexico, South America, and Europe.

The campus has a culture of supportive and engaged faculty, and recently made a major investment in programs to enhance student success. UCR strives to give every student the resources to explore, engage, imagine, and excel. In fall 2006, UCR enrolled 16,900 students, representing 85 percent growth over the past 10 years. Graduate student enrollment is more than 2,000, and will expand significantly in the next decade. The campus projects annual enrollment of 25,000 students by 2020. UCR offers bachelor degree programs in 80 majors, 44 master's degree programs, 40 Ph.D. Programs, and 17 state-approved teaching credentials.

Academic units are: the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences; the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; the Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering; the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management; and the Graduate School of Education. University Extension offers continuing education to the community as well as English instruction to thousands of international students each year. The UCR/UCLA medical program offers the first two years of medical school at UCR; students then transfer to UCLA for completion of their M.D. program. Plans are underway for a new UCR School of Medicine; in November 2006 the campus received approval by the UC Regents to complete its plan for a new school of medicine to open in 2012. A new School of Public Policy is also slated to open in 2009.

UCR faculty are national and international leaders in their fields, with a commitment to inspire students to reach their goals. UCR's 660 ladder faculty members include senior-level innovators and emerging stars: seven current and former faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, more than 50 UCR faculty members have received Guggenheim Fellowships for distinguished achievement and exceptional promise, one was recently named a fellow by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and more than 110 faculty members were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in the last decade. In terms of rankings, Academic Analytic's 2005 Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index placed UCR's faculty 1st in the country in soil science, 5th in environmental health engineering, 8th in environmental sciences, 10th in plant pathology, and 10th in botany and plant biology. In 2006, Washington Monthly ranked UCR 15th among the nation's colleges and universities in social relevance. News & World Report 2008 ranked UCR among the top 50 public universities nationwide.