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MAKING THE CUT: Students at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Westerly Education Center work on splicing cables. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

CCRI is building the future workforce and statewide economy

PBN 2023 Manufacturing Awards WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTIVITY: Community College of Rhode Island FOR THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND, workforce development is a key part...

Answering the Call

For more than a century, Johnson & Wales University (JWU) has focused on offering pioneering, industry-driven education. Founders Gertrude Johnson and Mary Wales emphasized...
FROM LEFT, Republican candidate Gerry W. Leonard Jr. and Democratic candidate Gabe Amo are now at the mercy of voters in the state's 1st Congressional District choosing who their next congressman will be on Tuesday. / COURTESY GERRY W. LEONARD JR. AND GABE AMO

Voters go to polls to select new congressman, school bond measures

PROVIDENCE – Voters on Tuesday are going to the polls to either elect a new congressman to represent Rhode Island in the U.S. House...

Trombly named director of National Offshore Wind Institute

FALL RIVER – Jessica Trombly, who previously served in a leadership role at the New Bedford Economic Development Council, has been named director of...
NINE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS across Rhode Island have formed the Rhode Island Businesses for Better Education coalition to support better education outcomes and address major issues, including student achievement gaps.

What more can the business community do to help improve the...

A coalition of Rhode Island business groups on Nov. 2 announced a new alliance focused on improving education and student achievement across the state. The...
NINE BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS across Rhode Island have formed the Rhode Island Businesses for Better Education coalition to support better education outcomes and address major issues, including student achievement gaps.

R.I. business groups form alliance to support education

PROVIDENCE – A collection of prominent groups representing hundreds of businesses across Rhode Island on Thursday formed a new alliance to support better education...
5Q: David N. Cicilline
CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation / PBN PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

5Q: David N. Cicilline

5Q: David N. Cicilline | CEO and president, Rhode Island Foundation 1. When you were named the foundation’s new CEO and president, you told...
PLAYTIME: Jordan Towle, a visitor services manager at the Providence Children’s Museum, plays with Jorge Rodrigues, 1, of Providence. The museum, according to Executive Director Caroline Payson, relies on ticket sales and membership fees to bolster operating costs. 
PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

Finding workforce is labor intensive for local nonprofits

The COVID-19 pandemic’s cascading aftereffects have been complicated and hard to shake for Rhode Island’s nonprofits, which employ 67,000 Rhode Islanders. That number represents...
BRYANT UNIVERSITY'S annual Giving Day on Wednesday raised a school-record $2.34 million. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Bryant University’s ‘Giving Day’ raises school-record $2.34M

SMITHFIELD – Bryant University’s annual Giving Day on Wednesday was another record-setter for the private university. The university’s 24-hour fundraising initiative raised $2.34 million through...
A NEW POLL from the University of Rhode Island shows that state and local K-12 education funding should increase, the state’s economy is not strong and residents have low levels of trust in governments. / PBN FILE PHOTO/CASSIUS SHUMAN

URI poll: Education funding should increase, trust in government low

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Rhode Islanders feel that state and local K-12 education funding should increase and support investment in the blue economy but they...
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