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SCREEN TIME: Mike Kelly, cybersecurity program director for the Community College of Rhode Island, performs a threat check. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

R.I. colleges try to satisfy cybersecurity demand

Education 10/02/2020

When the federal government started stepping up enforcement of cybersecurity requirements for agencies and contractors, McLaughlin Research Corp. was in a bind. The Middletown-based engineering...

COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND will continue its online-learning initiative into the spring 2021 semester. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI to continue online classes into spring 2021 semester

Coronavirus 09/30/2020

WARWICK – There will be another semester of predominantly online learning at the Community College of Rhode Island. CCRI President Meghan Hughes sent Wednesday a...

CCRI to lay off 45 full-time employees

Coronavirus 09/25/2020

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island on Sept. 22 announced it is laying off 45 full-time, non-faculty employees as a cost-cutting measure,...

THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island announced late Tuesday that it is laying off 45 full-time employees. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI to lay off 45 full-time employees

Coronavirus 09/22/2020

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island announced late Tuesday that it is laying off 45 full-time, nonfaculty employees as a cost-cutting measure,...

‘Archways to Opportunity’ is changing lives

Editorial and Op-Ed 09/18/2020

Hayleigh Correia of Pawtucket could not have imagined where her life would take her when she first walked into the McDonald’s restaurant in Providence....

Local colleges, College Crusade offer free dual-enrollment program for Providence seniors

Education 09/15/2020

PROVIDENCE – Community College of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, the College Crusade of Rhode Island and the Providence Public School District are collaborating...

PLENTY OF ROOM: Tucker Quinn, a political science major from Warwick, studies alone at the Community College of Rhode Island in Warwick recently. Not many students are attending in-person classes in the fall semester. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Online classes don’t mean smaller tuition bill

Education 09/11/2020

The cost of a college education is going up through COVID-19, and the bills paid by parents or students this fall will likely reflect...

A WORK IN PROGRESS: $45M program aims to reemploy Rhode Islanders,...

Coronavirus 09/04/2020

Scott R. Jensen watched helplessly as the number of out-of-work Rhode Islanders soared when COVID-19 hit in March. For months, unemployment claims climbed higher. And...

Most-read stories on PBN.com, August 2020

Subscriber Only 09/04/2020

1. September event highlighting fight against prostate cancer goes virtual POSTED ONLINE: AUG. 16. Rhode Islanders intent on fighting against prostate cancer are hosting...