Kim Wilcox was appointed UC Riverside’s ninth chancellor in August 2013. As UC Riverside’s chief executive officer, Wilcox oversees a campus community of more than 24,000 students, 930 faculty members, and 4,800 academic and administrative staff members.

During his tenure, UC Riverside has become the nation’s fastest rising university, and has seen transformative growth across its education, research and public service missions, as well as the establishment of new schools of medicine and public policy. Guided by UC Riverside’s long-term strategic plan, Wilcox has initiated an ambitious effort to grow the faculty and the campus’s physical facilities.

Over the last four years, UCR has grown its faculty by more than 200, including two Nobel Laureates, while increasing the racial, ethnic and gender diversity among incoming faculty members. Likewise, UCR has added or renovated more than 100,000 square feet of building space on campus since 2013, most notably the Multidiscipline Research Building, with another $1 billion in capital projects underway.

In his time at the school, UC Riverside has become a national model for achieving student success, particularly across socio-economic and ethnic categories. In the past five years, four-year graduation rates at UC Riverside have increased by 16 percent and six-year rates by 5 percent. UC Riverside is one of the few institutions nationwide that has eliminated graduation-rate gaps across income levels and ethnicity. Research and economic development funding have increased by nearly $50 million in this timeframe.