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Bryant approaches healthy goals via data analysis

Healthiest Employees: 500-1,999 Employees | #6. Bryant University CEO (or equivalent): Ronald K. Machtley, president Number of employees: 729 Bryant University takes an analytics approach to the...
TWO URI alumni each donated $1 million toward upgrades to Meade Stadium, the home to the university's football team. The project is expected to cost $4.1 million. / COURTESY UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND SPORTS INFORMATION

2 URI alumni donate combined $2M toward football stadium upgrades

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Two University of Rhode Island alumni have each committed $1 million for enhancements to Meade Stadium, home to the school’s football...
Installed as the president of Rhode Island College in 2016, Frank D. Sánchez came with a reputation for innovation and commitment to students, most recently as vice chancellor for student affairs at City University of New York. / PBN PHOTO/RUPERT WHITELEY

Learn to separate must, should, might, won’t

Frank D. Sánchez | Rhode Island College president Making decisions is a part of everyone’s job. I have found that most choices, from the mundane...
DOING THE RIGHT THING? Gov. Gina M. Raimondo is proposing an expansion of the Rhode Island Promise college scholarship program. The major question is, will the General Assembly support the proposal?
 / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

This promise delivers for future of R.I. and its students

Can lightning strike twice? If the bolt of energy is a new, expanded version of the Rhode Island Promise college scholarship program, let us...

Art schools aren’t doing so badly while other colleges struggle

Sculptor Eleanor Tomlinson had doubts about art school. The tuition looked costly, there was no guarantee of a job and she wondered whether a...
BRYANT UNIVERSITY's Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program has received full-accreditation status from the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, the first program in the state to receive such distinction. / COURTESY BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Bryant’s physician assistant program receives full accreditation

SMITHFIELD – The Master of Science in Physician Assistant Studies program at Bryant University has been granted full accreditation by the Accreditation Review Commission...
the prop: Edwin Pacheco brought his mother’s Providence College diploma. They worked on their degrees together, the first and second in the family to graduate, he from URI in 2005, she in 2006. / PBN PHOTO/MIKE SKORSKI

Edwin Pacheco, 36

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND INTERIM VICE PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE ADVANCEMENT – RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE Where do you see yourself professionally in 20 years? Over the next...

Report: URI’s Dooley earned $369K in 2016-17 academic year

SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island President David M. Dooley was reported to have made $369,200 in the 2016-2017 school year, according to...
SPREADING OPPORTUNITY: Donald J. Farish succeeded in expanding the benefits of higher education to an increasingly diverse student population. 
 / PBN FILE PHOTO/­RUPERT WHITELEY

Farish leaves legacy of inclusion and value of education in R.I.

Rhode Island lost more than a passionate and articulate advocate for the value of higher education when Donald J. Farish died recently at the...

O’Neil Outar Named RISD’s Vice President for Institutional Engagement

(Providence, Rhode Island) July 03, 2018 – After an extensive international search, O’Neil A.S. Outar joined Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in January...
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