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State, schools create economic research project
(Updated, 2:52 p.m., Jan. 15) With $200,000 in public and private funds as the seed, Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee announced the creation of the College and University Research Collaborative, with the goal of providing economic research to help in the formation of effective public policy that will grow the state’s economy. more
Beacon 2.0 is nearing completion
In the digital classroom, few things are more frustrating for a teacher than trying to project a video to a large group of students and watching the computer freeze, said Thomas Thibodeau, assistant provost at the New England Institute of Technology in East Greenwich. more

By Patrick Anderson
PBN Staff Writer | 1/14/13

‘Entrepreneurial mindset’ crucial in changing economy
Sylvia Maxfield, whose career has taken her from the Ivory tower, as she calls it, of Yale University to Wall Street and then back into higher education, became dean of the college of business at Providence College last summer. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 1/14/13

Sawyer students left in limbo
The sudden closure of the Sawyer School has left 302 Rhode Island students in academic and financial limbo. With education officials last week still unsure even of who was in charge of the shuttered school, the shutdown has also raised questions regarding oversight of for-profit education in the Ocean State. more

BY RHONDA MILLER
PBN Staff Writer | 1/14/13

Shrinking high school graduate ranks bear on college recruiting
The number of U.S. high school graduates is expected to decline through the rest of the decade, with the largest drop in non-hispanic whites, raising questions about how colleges will recruit and enroll students. more
Brown lands major gift to establish aging health initiative
Brown University’s Program in Public Health will receive a major gift from the Irene Diamond Fund to establish an aging health initiative. more
| 1/9/13
URI lands $2.5M in estate gifts from alumni brothers
The University of Rhode Island has received roughly $2.5 million from the estates and bequests of URI alumni brothers John and David Parker, the University of Rhode Island Foundation announced Tuesday. more
| 1/8/13
JWU entrepreneurial pool attracts sharks
Options have become an early career necessity, says John Robitaille, executive director of Johnson & Wales University’s Center for Entrepreneurship, whose charge after taking on the position about 18 months ago was to further the school’s position as an entrepreneurial incubator. more

By Rebecca Keister
PBN Staff Writer | 1/7/13

State officials to seize Sawyer student records
State higher education officials will enter facilities of the closed Sawyer School over the weekend, accompanied by state police, to take custody of student academic and financial records, Mike Trainor, spokesman for the state Office of Higher Education, said at a press conference on Friday. more
UMass chemistry department lands $339K NSF funding
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s department of chemistry and biochemistry received a $339,000 award from the National Science Foundation, the school announced Thursday. more
| 1/3/13
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