Campus Partnerships

How We Are Making An Impact

Launched Committee

UCR Counts! includes leaders across campus with the aim at counting UCR and our families back home. UCR Counts! includes campus partners from the Office of Student Life, Governmental and Community Relations, the Associated Students of UCR, the Center for Social Innovation, and the Undocumented Student Programs
Convened Info Session

Held the inaugural information session/workshop on September 20th to introduce the Census to campus leaders
Hosted California Complete Count Team

Director Ditas Katague joined the UCR Counts! committee as we update her and discuss ongoing outreach
Passed ASUCR Census Resolution

ASUCR unanimously passed a resolution indicating their commitment to provide support and resources

GIS Day Presentation

Pledge Card

In The News

In the News: Movement for census awareness swells in Inland Empire

Tamara Marquez didn’t know much about the U.S. census before last year, when she applied for a job as a canvasser with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, a nonprofit organization based in Jurupa Valley. Marquez, a senior...

In the News: Students: Here's why YOU should fill out the Census

Riverside, California – With the National Census Day fast approaching, the University of California is asking its students to be counted. UC Riverside student and Center for Social Innovation Student Assistant, Eric Calderon, is well aware that his classmates, their...

February 04, 2020

In the News: UCR organizations join together to promote the UCR Counts! Initiative

The UCR Counts! Census 2020 Complete Count Committee is a team of campus leaders who are joining together to ensure that UCR and its communities are accurately accounted for during this year’s census. The committee consists of students and faculty...

January 13, 2020

Could Democrats’ path to White House run through Inland Empire?

“It’s no exaggeration to say that (the Inland Empire and Central Valley) could determine the winner of the California primaries,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science and public policy professor, wrote in a commentary posted on CNN.com. Billionaire and...

January 08, 2020

Andrew Yang Wins Asian American Money Race in Third Quarter, But Indian Americans Back Joe Biden

Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of AAPI Data and professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, told India-West: “Biden has one well among establishment donors. The Indian American community has high regard for him and (Vermont Senator) Bernie Sanders...

December 30, 2019

The Decade in Asian America

Some argue that this political progress started with the Obama years. The rise of the Asian American grassroots progressive movement began before the 2010s but shaped much of the organizing during the decade, says Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of AAPI Data...

October 28, 2019

In The News: Here’s how UC Riverside is preparing for the 2020 census

In 2010, during the last decennial population count, nearly one in four Inland Empire households didn’t mail back their census questionnaire. What’s more, another 40,000 people throughout the region didn’t receive a questionnaire by mail at all. Why does this...