Patricia Daddona
14 nonprofits receive<br> employment grants
PROVIDENCE – Fourteen nonprofits received $247,500 worth of grants designed to foster employment opportunities from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation this month.
The grants...
UMass trustees approve tuition, fee freeze for 2014-15
DARTMOUTH – For the second consecutive year, trustees at the University of Massachusetts on Wednesday authorized a freeze in 2014-15 tuition and fees for...
R.I. teacher prep programs not ranked among the best
WASHINGTON – Rhode Island is one of 17 states and the District of Columbia that did not have a teacher preparation program on the...
Hotel workers plan hunger strike if budget bans municipal wage raise
(Updated, June 17, 3:20 p.m.)
PROVIDENCE – Hotel workers and their supporters confirmed Tuesday morning that three Providence hotel workers and a Central Falls city...
Website to help R.I. cities, towns market public real estate
PAWTUCKET – Four cities and towns have launched the Rhode Island beta of OpportunitySpace, an online database of public properties intended to promote transparency...
Knowledge transfer key to growth
In the middle of an internship at Swissline Precision Manufacturing Inc., Bill Johnson of Central Falls is learning not only about how to be...
Job-placement tracking on upswing
Ten of Rhode Island’s 11 colleges track the percentage of students who get jobs soon after graduating, but most use that data as an...
R.I. college leaders paid well compared to peers
Rhode Island and Bristol County, Mass., private colleges and universities compensate their presidents well compared with their peers nationally, according to federal filings to...
Five Questions With: Margaret DeVos
Margaret DeVos is executive director of the Southside Community Land Trust, which works to increase sustainable urban food production in Providence and the surrounding...
Dorcas graduates 25 from program
PROVIDENCE – The first 25 participants in a family learning program at Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island graduated on June 12.
“In the face...
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