Anne De Stefano recently earned the Alumna of the Year award from the Rhode Island College Alumni Association. De Stefano, who is a 1966 graduate of the college, earned a bachelor’s degree in history and taught in the Cranston Public School system from 1966 to 1980. In 1973, she co-founded the Conference and Meeting Assistance Corp., a transportation-consulting company, with her husband, Robert De Stefano. She served as its president from 1980 to 1995. She has served as a member and chair of the Providence Convention Bureau, and is currently a member of the St. Elizabeth Community and Rhode Island College Foundation board. more

Bryant University’s supply-chain management program was among a handful of MBA programs commended in The Wall Street Journal’s “Hot New MBA” report. more

Rhode Island College has joined the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities, an international organization that emphasizes community engagement, the college announced Wednesday. more

Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy has added four faculty fellows and one adjunct fellow — with backgrounds ranging from archaeology to journalism to art — to its faculty. more

Johnson & Wales University has sold a Seekonk inn it owned and operated as an internship and training site for the past 30 years, the school announced Tuesday. more

Brown University will continue to study the issue of divesting its holdings in at least 15 companies that mine or burn coal for the production of power, according to a May 24 statement from university President Christina Paxson. more

Brown University’s Center for Environmental Studies will introduce new leadership and a revised curriculum next year, the university announced late last week. more

Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to R.I. Board of Education Chair Eva Marie Mancuso on May 24. more

It is clear from the sound of her voice that Kati C. Machtley is having a good day. The founder and director of the Women’s Summit at Bryant University is beaming, because the Bryant varsity lacrosse team just won the Northeast Conference championship. more

The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has permanently appointed its current interim dean of the Charlton College of Business – Angappa Gunasekaran – as the official head of the business school. more