Tag: CCRI
CCRI to privatize campus bookstores
PROVIDENCE – A search is underway by the Community College of Rhode Island for a private vendor to take over operations at the...
McKee backs three new bond questions seeking combined $350M
PROVIDENCE – Gov. Daniel J. McKee's proposed fiscal 2023 budget includes three bond questions for the November ballot with a combined $350 million price...
Will R.I. Promise last after Raimondo leaves?
Talia Thibodeau faced an uncertain future as she prepared to graduate from Cranston High School West last June.
Thibodeau, a standout basketball player, wanted to...
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...