The new medical college at UC Riverside will not get state money to fund equipment, faculty and students until the state budget situation stabilizes, Gov. Jerry Brown told a Riverside newspaper… UCR officials have yet to convince the state university system to fund the new Riverside medical college, at a time that the UC system is raising tuition and cutting student services. That has led to a $10 million per year local fundraising effort to get the college up and running with a limited enrollment of 50 students. University Chancellor Timothy White told the Press-Enterprise that the medical school would be the UC system’s first in 40 years, and would be an economic stimulus to the Inland Empire.

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by staff, Valley News.

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