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College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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At home in the world.

The biggest college at UC Riverside, CHASS students and faculty create work that inspires the world and challenges the way we think about it.

Our students come with multi-faceted interests and aspirations. They leave with an integrated understanding of how to connect societal dots and reimagine our world.

Answering society’s biggest questions requires time and minds from all walks of life. Your support assists us to continue doing so with respect and excellence.

SUPPORT CHASS

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CHASS in Numbers

30+

DEPARTMENTS

60+

MAJORS

500+

FACULTY

10,000+

STUDENTS

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Initiatives You Can Support

CHASS is home to units that date back to the founding of UC Riverside, as well as an exciting mix of newer trans- and interdisciplinary academic programs that center on social justice and climate work.

With your support, we can continue to reinvigorate and expand structures of excellence for tomorrow’s liberal arts scholars.

 
High-Impact Learning

A key aim of CHASS curriculum is to equip students with an awareness of the impact their ideas can have on the world they’re graduating into.

Your support will assist us in making experiential learning more accessible through:

  • Funded research
  • Internships
  • Service learning
  • Education abroad
  • Career services
 
Faculty

Home to 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 poet laureates, 2 Guggenheim Fellows, and even an officially honored and recognized Knight, our faculty are among the world’s top minds.

With your support we can expand support for their groundbreaking research and teaching through 5 new:

  • Endowed chairs
  • Named chairs
  • Term chairs

 

 
Student Scholarships

For individuals to reimagine a better world, we must first give them the opportunity to do that in their own lives.

With your support we can grow our scholarship offerings for both undergraduate and graduate students.

 

 

 

 

Through our combined 33+ psychology, anthropology, and sociology research labs, and 3 public art galleries, the students and faculty at CHASS are exploring the big ideas of our time through an integrated and multi-disciplinary lens.

With your support we can continue to, with greater efficacy and bandwidth, accelerate our capacity to inform our societal and global conversations with the perspective and nuance that brings forward solutions and art of inclusive understanding.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH CHASS

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More from CHASS

Read the latest research.

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February 25, 2026
Feeling loved is secret to happiness, psychologists say
What is the secret of happiness? Sonja Lyubomirsky, a distinguished professor of psychology at UC Riverside, used to dread that question; she considered it reductive. As a leading expert on the science of happiness, however, it was an occupational hazard, and she would answer it by explaining that there are many determinants.
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February 13, 2026
Incentive program for teachers yields long-term student gains
A teacher-incentive program in South Carolina has led to striking long-term benefits for students, including lower rates of felony arrest and reduced reliance on government assistance in early adulthood, a new study reports. Ozkan Eren, a professor of economics at UC Riverside, co-authored the study with colleagues at the University of Michigan and University of South Carolina.
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January 22, 2026
No clear path for U.S. in Venezuela, Cuba, scholar says
With Venezuela in the thrall of U.S. oil demands and Cuba confronting massive fuel shortages due to an American blockade, the two countries face a more uncertain future than at any time since becoming close allies at the start of the 21st century.
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January 21, 2026
UCR Orchestra to perform music inspired by American optimism, Welsh folk, and an operatic classic
Join the UCR Orchestra, conducted by Ruth Charloff, on January 31 at 8 p.m. and February 1 at 3 p.m. in the University Theatre. Tickets are available now.
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Before CHASS, I wasn’t able to discuss, research, or write about queer topics that I loved, but here I’ve been given resources and opportunities to contribute my own voice in academia, and to join conversations that have been otherwise silencing.
Justin Daniel Domecillo
English
One of the things I like about CHASS is that it really makes us question what makes us human. I feel that it delves deeper and is more critical of what makes us ‘us,’ and that’s why I chose history. I feel like it shows where we came from and how we started out.
Jon Paredes
History
My favorite thing about CHASS is that it involves just as much unlearning as it does learning new material...Being a CHASS student means constantly rethinking the structures and systems that we have always considered normal because normal isn’t always right.
Sukhmeen Kaur Kahlon
Political Science/Law & Society
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