Tag: Community College of Rhode Island
PBN unveils 2025 Leaders & Achievers honorees
PROVIDENCE – Providence Business News has named 22 honorees for its 2025 Leaders & Achievers Awards program.
The individuals chosen for this year’s program –...
Everybody’s Business: Entrepreneur finds himself in driver’s seat
(Editor’s note: This is the 59th installment in a monthly series speaking with minority business owners and leaders. Each will be asked their views...
Costigan appointed CCRI’s new full-time president
CRANSTON – After two years leading the Community College of Rhode Island on an interim basis, Rosemary A. Costigan now has the president’s job...
2 colleges join forces to clear path for nurses
When Patricia Kelling’s son was born with severe heart problems years ago, she struggled to understand what was wrong.
“I didn’t know what the doctors...
These local colleges prove to be ‘military friendly’
Lidell Booysen is a U.S. Navy veteran and a mechanical engineering student at the University of Rhode Island. The 25-year-old isn’t like most of...
Greater Providence Chamber to hold Summer Golf Classic
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Greater Providence Chamber to hold Summer Golf Classic
THE GREATER PROVIDENCE Chamber of Commerce will hold its 37th annual Golf Classic, hosted by...
CCRI partners with RIC to launch online RN to BSN program
PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College recently announced a fully online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in...
CCRI, United Way open 211 satellite office
WARWICK – United Way of Rhode Island Inc. has partnered with the Community College of Rhode Island for the nonprofit to open a 211...
9 LEAs receive $2M in state grants to support CTE programming
PROVIDENCE – Nine local education agencies will receive $2 million in total state grants to expand career and technical education programs at those schools.
State...
The future of Pell grants is unclear for students
The federal Pell Grant program, named after the late Rhode Island Sen. Claiborne Pell, has money problems.
The Congressional Budget Office is projecting the program...


















