All pumped up for Atlanta
A team of students from Burrillville, Ponaganset and Mount Hope high schools celebrates a win in the inaugural Rhode Island FIRST Vex Challenge.
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To keep your customers, fix mistakes ASAP
You cannot put a price tag on customer loyalty; it is priceless.
Customers who return to you day after day, year after year will...
RISD board enlists international firm for president search
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island School of Design has retained the executive search firm Spencer Stuart to assist in the search for a successor to...
UMassOnline draws in record $28M in fiscal ’07
SHREWSBURY, Mass. – UMassOnline, the online segment of the University of Massachusetts, recently reported record revenue and enrollment in fiscal 2007. Revenue increased 32.1...
R.I. to get boost in Title I funds for poor students
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rhode Island will receive a $3.1 million increase in Title I funding in fiscal year 2007, for a total of more...
Bill would make tuition, fees tax-deductible in R.I.
PROVIDENCE – A Burrillville legislator has introduced legislation to apply the same deductions for college tuition and fees to Rhode Island income taxes as...
Bryant students win regional competition
SMITHFIELD – Bryant University’s Students in Free Enterprise group won first place in the Students In Free Enterprise Regional Competition, held March 22 in...
UMass Dartmouth forms partnership with Azores
DARTMOUTH – The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has formed a partnership with the Azores to expand education and research initiatives focusing on Azorean Americans.
Chancellor...
Education chief sees progress,<br> but also much left to do
Peter J. McWalters has been Rhode Island’s elementary and secondary education commissioner since 1992, leading the implementation of several key reforms – from Article...
R.I. bureaucracy so infuriating the state is turning off people
I am a parent of a third-year student at the New England Institute of Technology. I won’t begin to tell you the amount of...
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