Tag: Brown Univeristy
Brown University launches Workforce Lab to track job training programs
PROVIDENCE – Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs launched a new Workforce Development Policy Lab on Thursday to identify which job...
Brown University eyes razing 4 historic houses for new academic building
PROVIDENCE – Neighbors and historic preservation advocates have raised concerns over Brown University's plans to demolish four Brook Street homes to clear space for...
Brown University launches healing, recovery initiative after deadly campus shooting
PROVIDENCE – As students, staff and faculty prepare to return to campus following the Dec. 13 shooting, Brown University has launched an initiative to...
Brown University declines policy ‘compact’ with Trump administration
PROVIDENCE – Brown University President Christina H. Paxson has formally rejected the Trump administration's request for the school to sign a "Compact for Academic...
Providence mayor touts new tax agreements with city’s major universities
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Tuesday announced his administration has reached tentative payment-in-lieu-of-taxes deals with the four private higher education institutions based...
Outgoing R.I. Foundation leader: State’s economic prospects grim without better education,...
PROVIDENCE – For 15 years, Neil D. Steinberg has helmed Rhode Island’s largest funder of nonprofits.
The 69-year-old former banker also has been at the...
I-195 panel approves BankRI conceptual design
PROVIDENCE – The I-195 Redevelopment District Commission on Wednesday unanimously approved a revised conceptual design for the new Bank Rhode Island headquarters and 95-unit...
Only few overdose incidents require police involvement, new Brown study finds
PROVIDENCE – Most overdose incidents do not involve safety concerns or require the intervention of law enforcement, a new Brown University study shows.
Police officers...
Providence City Plan Commission OKs master plan for five-story, mixed use...
PROVIDENCE – The City Plan Commission on Tuesday approved the master plan for a five-story apartment building at 116 Waterman St. adjacent to the...
Bryant’s Machtley, JWU’s Bowen ranked highest-compensated private-college leaders in U.S....
PROVIDENCE – A soon-to-be retired leader of a Rhode Island-based private university is ranked as the nation’s highest-compensated private-college president, while a former private...
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