Tag: higher education
Union employees at RISD go on strike
PROVIDENCE – More than 60 union employees at the Rhode Island School of Design walked off the job Thursday morning, with some picketing outside...
Hughes stepping down as CCRI president on Aug. 31
WARWICK – After more than seven years at the helm, the president of the state’s community college will step away.
Meghan L. Hughes, who has...
URI receives $3M from van Beuren Foundation for bay campus renovation...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – The pending modernization of the University of Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay Campus received another significant financial boost.
The university announced Monday that...
Henry Barnard School to leave RIC for Providence Country Day campus
EAST PROVIDENCE – Just two years after breathing life back into the Henry Barnard School on the Rhode Island College campus, Providence Country Day...
2 Brown University basketball players sue Ivy League over no-scholarship policy
PROVIDENCE – Two Brown University basketball players, one former and one current, filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday accusing the eight Ivy League...
PC requires 500% larger donation for March Madness ticket eligibility
PROVIDENCE – If fans want to see the Providence College men’s basketball team compete in the NCAA Tournament in a couple of weeks, it...
Rogers named new URI College of Business dean
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Sean E. Rogers, University of Rhode Island’s current vice president for community, equity and diversity, has been named the new dean...
URI food researcher receives $205K federal grant to help improve food...
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – A University of Rhode Island food sciences researcher received a six-figure federal grant to find ways to help improve food safety...
New report offers recommendations on improving teacher pipeline between local colleges,...
PROVIDENCE – As a call to action, members of a Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce education subcommittee produced a series of recommendations on how...
URI taps Abdelsalam as its new IP executive director
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – Fathi Abdelsalam, a past senior patent examiner at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Virginia, has been named the University...