Tag: Community College of Rhode Island
Boosting financial literacy Brooks’ passion
Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE
Margaret Brooks, Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition
Margaret Brooks is passionate about empowering the state’s vulnerable populations via financial literacy, a...
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...
R.I. Promise program earns Excellence Award from N.E. Board of Higher...
PROVIDENCE – The New England Board of Higher Education gave a 2019 Excellence Award to state officials on Tuesday for the Rhode Island Promise...
CCRI’s first class of R.I. Promise recipients set to graduate Thursday
PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island is set to graduate its largest class in more than 20 years – about 2,300 students...
CCRI resumes classes at Warwick campus after evacuation because of bullet...
WARWICK – Classes at the Community College of Rhode Island's Warwick campus resumed Wednesday afternoon after the campus was evacuated in the morning when...
CCRI partners with charter high school for ‘seamless pathway’ to nursing...
WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island is partnering with a nursing charter high school to remove barriers and provide a "seamless pathway"...
Accrediting agency accepts CCRI’s fifth-year report
WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island has received a passing grade when it comes to its accreditation.
The New England Commission of Higher...
Programming on Oliver Hazard Perry headed in new direction
NORTH KINGSTOWN – The nonprofit group that operates Rhode Island's official Tall Ship, the Oliver Hazard Perry, has changed course, and the group says...
Raimondo: A ‘partner with business’
You could say Gov. Gina M. Raimondo is a pragmatist. The way she puts it, she’s not trying to change the world so much...
Managing ‘process’ a wanted skill
Process technician: The name doesn’t necessarily trigger an awareness or emotion among Rhode Island job seekers, but maybe it should.
Employers are looking for them,...