Tag: CCRI
Five Questions With: Lori Caron Silveira
5Q: Lori Caron Silveira | Executive director, R.I. Turnpike and Bridge Authority 1. What in your professional background has most prepared you for leading...
R.I. Promise laying groundwork for a better-educated workforce
State lawmakers were wise to put a sunset provision in legislation creating the Rhode Island Promise program, which allows qualifying students the chance to...
Paths to manufacturing jobs grow
Perhaps it was an extraordinary run as a major manufacturer in a number of industries, one that kept the state looking backward instead of...
Giving employers the skills to speak with their workers
The diversification of Rhode Island’s workforce has resulted in a frequent challenge for many employers. Workers may know enough English to perform their jobs,...
CCRI professor named president-elect of national laboratory science committee
PROVIDENCE – A Community College of Rhode Island professor and chair of the school’s Allied Health Department has been named president-elect of the American...
CCRI has new dean of arts, humanities, social sciences after 4...
WARWICK – An educator from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, Mass., has taken over as dean for arts, humanities and social sciences at the...
URI needs own board of trustees
There is no question, the University of Rhode Island is not like the Community College of Rhode Island, nor even Rhode Island College. Yet...
RI Promise deserves passage
Sometimes the corny thing can be the right thing. Such is the case with General Treasurer Seth Magaziner’s plan to deposit $529 into the 529...
Bryant sees pluses of military service
The transition from a military to civilian workplace can be rocky, and sometimes the legitimate experience of veterans is lost in translation in interviews...
RI Promise delivers as CCRI graduation sets a record
Three years ago, when Gov. Gina M. Raimondo started her push for the Rhode Island Promise program, she did not receive universal plaudits. Speaker of...
