After a 30 year career in elected public service, Mayor Loveridge decided not to run for a 6th term and stepped down in 2012.

[8] Also in 2010, Loveridge was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

[9] Loveridge has presented his stance on environmental issues in a public document titled "The Mayor’s Call to Action for a Sustainable Riverside.

He then began a career as a college professor at the University of California, Riverside in 1965.

After leaving public office, he took a position as the director of UCR’s Inland Center for Sustainable Development, a research hub operated by the School of Public Policy.