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THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island Foundation has received approximately $1 million from the Champlin Foundation and Delta Dental of Rhode Island to support refurbishments to the college's dental hygiene clinic. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI receives $1M in gifts to support dental clinic refurbishments

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island Foundation announced Monday that it has received approximately $1 million in multiyear capital funding gifts from...

HousingWorks: Multilevel change needed to improve affordability

PROVIDENCE – Just three of Rhode Island's 39 communities offer housing affordable to renters earning $50,000 or less, and only one municipality hosts two-bedroom...
K-12 STUDENTS ACROSS MASSACHUSETTS will not be required to wear masks when they return to school this fall. / AP FILE PHOTO/LYNNE SLADKY

Is it fair to blame COVID-19 for the state’s decline in student test scores...

Rhode Island student test scores in both reading and math have declined since 2019, according to the “Nations Report Card” issued Oct. 24 by...

Providence College welcomes 3 new board trustees

PROVIDENCE – Three individuals have been named to Providence College’s board of trustees. Duane Bouligny, managing director in the leveraged finance group with Wells Fargo’s...
POTENTIAL PAVILION: Roger Williams Park Zoo Executive Director Stacey Johnson shows the area where a new, $12 million educational facility and events pavilion will be built if Rhode Island voters approve a $50 million “green economy” bond measure.
PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

MONEY MATTERS: $400M in bond issues on R.I. ballot as borrowing costs rise

Matt Dunn and Rainer Lohmann are among the top researchers at the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, but it’s tough to...
HELPING HAND: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center volunteer Susan Barnes, right, assists a customer in the nonprofit organization’s food pantry in Newport.
PBN PHOTO/DAVID HANSEN

Soaring inflation hurting nonprofits in many ways

Ask Heather Hole Strout what keeps her up at night and she answers without hesitating. “Housing. It’s a big issue. Many we help have...
Nina Stack / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

5Q: Nina Stack, The Champlin Foundation executive director

Nina Stack | The Champlin Foundation executive director 1. Have the requests for donations from The Champlin Foundation remained high in the past year? The need for...
POPULAR PATH: ­Crystal Raviele, a health care management professional, graduated from Bryant University’s online MBA program in May. 
PBN PHOTO/­ELIZABETH GRAHAM

More universities adding online MBA degrees as demand increases

Since before the pandemic, Crystal Raviele, then the manager of ancillary services at Coastal Medical Inc. health practices, knew she was interested in a...
PRIME OPPORTUNITY: Amy Kacerik, dean of enrollment management at the Community College of Rhode Island, says few Amazon.com Inc. employees have enrolled using the tuition program called Career Choice, but that may change when the Amazon warehouse opens in Johnston next year, which will employ 1,500 people. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Tuition program puts new spin on incentive

Cecilia Guante didn’t plan on stopping her schooling after she finished her associate degree. But she ran out of money and had to shelve her...
READY TO GROW: Roger Williams Park Zoo Executive Director Stacey Johnson hopes voters approve a bond request that includes $12 million for a new education center and events pavilion at the zoo. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/­MICHAEL SALERNO

Voters to decide on school projects, marijuana shops

Voters on Nov. 8 will decide whether to strengthen the University of Rhode Island’s role in growing a regional ocean-based economy, continue the public...
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