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Reed secures $100K for NEIT Summer Tech Camp skills-building programs

Education 07/08/2025

EAST GREENWICH – Dozens of high school students from across Rhode Island gathered at the New England Institute of Technology in June for the...

TOUGH TIME: Katharine Amaral, right, director of programs and community partnerships for the nonprofit Junior Achievement of Rhode Island Inc., speaks during Providence Business News’ 2025 Workforce Development Summit on Feb. 13. With her on the panel, from left, are Ara Millette, director of talent acquisition at Brown University Health; Amy Grzybowski, New England Institute of Technology vice president of workforce development and community relations; and Nora Crowley, R.I. Department of Labor and Training deputy director.  PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

PBN summit: Workforce challenges coming at federal, state levels

News Story 02/28/2025

It’s a challenging time for people charged with developing the workforce of the future for Rhode Island. Not only are state agencies and nonprofits nationwide...

N.E. Tech significantly reducing tuition for its trades programming

Economy 02/11/2025

EAST GREENWICH – The New England Institute of Technology is now offering individuals seeking training to enter the trades workforce close to half off...

New England Tech postpones plans to launch charter school

Education 01/31/2025

EAST GREENWICH – Plans for the New England Institute of Technology to launch a new charter school are being put on hold while the...

STUDENTS AND FACULTY care for animals inside the New England Institute of Technology's new 11,000-square-foot veterinary technology learning lab inside the East Greenwich campus. / COURTESY HEIDI GUMULA/DBVW ARCHITECTS INC.

New England Tech launches $3M veterinary learning lab

Education 02/09/2024

EAST GREENWICH – A continued shortage of veterinary technicians within the health care industry prompted the New England Institute of Technology to create a...

NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE of Technology has launched an early college program for high school seniors. / COURTESY NEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

New England Tech launches new early college program for high school...

Education 10/27/2023

EAST GREENWICH – The New England Institute of Technology has launched a pilot early college dual-enrollment program, collaborating with one technical school and the...

COMMON GOAL: From left, Tekla E. Moquin, associate vice president of the division of workforce partnerships at the Community College of Rhode Island; Amy Grzybowski, assistant commissioner at the R.I. Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner; and Jenifer Giroux, assistant vice president for professional studies and continuing education at Rhode Island College, have been working together to provide an education system that allows all Rhode Islanders a chance at earning a degree or advanced credential in fields that are in demand. / PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Leaders lay groundwork to ‘supercharge’ training

Education 04/15/2022

It was a first at Rhode Island College. At the start of the spring semester, the college started offering a fully online degree – a...

JOYFUL ENDEAVOR: Providence College President the Rev. Kenneth R. Sicard remembers being impressed with the Dominican friars when he was a PC student. It drew him to their community. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

PC president looks to market Friars’ brand on national level

Coronavirus 07/23/2021

(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.) The Rev. Kenneth...

WORK SITE: Amy Grzybowski, future director of a planned higher education center in northern Rhode Island, visits the building in downtown Woonsocket that will be converted into the center by late 2021 or early 2022. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Downtown Woonsocket getting a higher ed boost

Economy 07/23/2021

The workforce in southern Rhode Island got a helping hand in getting crucial training when the state opened the Westerly Education Center four years...