Dive Brief:

• The University of California at Riverside’s new chancellor says the school will expand its enrollment and faculty significantly over the next six years.
• Chancellor Kim A. Wilcox, at his investiture ceremony Thursday, said that UC Riverside will have to hire 300 more faculty in the next five years to handle its planned growth in student numbers, from 22,000 to 25,000, by 2020.
• The new chancellor also called for the completion of new buildings, including an events center for sporting events and conferences, and a planned research building. 

Dive Insight:

The faculty expansion would be considerable — currently, UC Riverside has 673 tenure-track professors, The Press-Enterprise reported. In remarks made after his speech, Wilcox told the newspaper that the new faculty hires were necessary in part because of staff cuts in the wake of the economic downturn. The planned interdisciplinary research building would have space for 60 research groups. The chancellor also called for a better strategy for attracting international students, which now number 4,000. Wilcox started as chancellor in August, at an annual salary of $354,000.