Roth Vows To Restore Funding to UC-Riverside Medical School
On Tuesday, Sen. Richard Roth (D-Riverside) Â pledged to push for the reinstatement of $15 million in annual state funding to ensure that UC-Riverside's School of Medicine -- scheduled to open this fall -- can operate at full capacity with classes of 80 students. In 2011, the funding was withdrawn amid the state's budget crisis, forcing the school to open one year later with a smaller inaugural enrollment of 50 students.
- "MORENO VALLEY: Roth Vows To Fund Medical School" (Muckenfuss, Riverside Press-Enterprise, 3/26).