The College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) can trace its history to the founding undergraduate institution at UCR, the College of Letters and Science, which first opened in 1954.
(During a consolidation period in the early 1970s, its natural science departments merged with UCR's College of Agriculture, founded in 1958, to form the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.)
[2] UCR hosts the California Center for Native Nations, an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to supporting research for and about Native nations, with emphasis on those communities within California.
UCR's History Department grants a master of arts degree as well as a doctorate in American Indian history, and the Ethnic Studies Department grants a bachelor of arts in Native American studies.
Copies of the Amador Ledger, from 1900 to 1910, Imperial Valley News, from 1900 to 1910, and three years of the Los Angeles Herald will be added.