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Salve Regina University receives $12M gift to expand business learning

NEWPORT – For the second time in close to three weeks, Salve Regina University is receiving a multimillion-dollar gift. This latest monetary award will...

Salve Regina University receives $5M gift for new student pavilion

NEWPORT – The founder of the Papitto Opportunity Connection who also is a board trustee at Salve Regina University provided the private university a...
A RENDERING shows a new Salve Regina University student resident hall on on the corner of Shepard and Lawrence avenues in Newport. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

Salve Regina moving forward with construction on new student residence hall

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University, city officials and area neighbors have finalized an agreement to build a new student residence hall on the corner...

3 Salve Regina students selected for Siemens financial leadership program

NEWPORT – Three Salve Regina University students have been chosen to participate in the Siemens Corp. Financial Leadership Development Program. Salve juniors Georgia Costello and...
SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY has launched its largest fundraising campaign ever, seeking to raise $75 million to support the university's academic and co-curricular programs. / COURTESY SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY

Salve Regina University launches $75M fundraising campaign

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University has officially launched its largest fundraising campaign in the university’s nearly 90-year history. The private university announced Wednesday that its...
JOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY next year will require students to live on campus for their first three years. / PBN FILE PHOTO/JAMES BESSETTE

Do on-campus college residency requirements limit student choice?

PROVIDENCE – Meeting new roommates, decorating one’s dorm room and making an acres-large campus one’s home for several months are all part of a...
FULL CIRCLE: Wheaton College President Michaele Whelan, far right, is the third woman to lead the college since its founding by a woman in 1839. Seated with her, clockwise from far left, are students Olivia Deschenes, Sarocha Wongwatanawisut, Courtney Kass and Eleanor Cerra. 
PBN FILE PHOTO/TRACY JENKINS

College leaders positioned to meet post-pandemic challenges

Since 2019, eight of the region’s 13 four-year colleges have hired new long-term leaders. And another four-year school, Rhode Island College, still has an...
CHANGE MAKER? R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, who was appointed in March 2019, has been in charge of the state’s takeover of Providence public schools. / PBN FILE PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Lessons in changing leadership

EDUCATION The education sector across Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts has transformed in numerous ways in recent years, ranging from new leadership taking over at...
GREETING STUDENTS: Salve Regina University President Kelli J. Armstrong stops to talk with students as they return to campus recently in Newport. Armstrong says she enjoys getting to know students and soon after she arrived at the school in 2019, she implemented “Pizza with the President” gatherings, in which she would invite cohorts of students to her house for pizza. / PBN PHOTO/DAVE HANSEN

MISSION FOCUSED: Salve’s first lay president is determined to uphold school’s...

(Editor's note: This is the third installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.) When Kelli J....
THE PENNFIELD SCHOOL in Portsmouth was purchased by Salve Regina University as part of a sale and leaseback agreement for $3.4 million. / COURTESY THE PENNFIELD SCHOOL

Salve Regina University purchases Pennfield School in leaseback agreement for $3.4M

PORTSMOUTH – Salve Regina University announced Friday that it has reached a long-term sale and leaseback agreement with The Pennfield School, where the university...
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