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Providence City Plan Commission approves Brown University’s proposed master plan

PROVIDENCE – The Providence City Plan Commission Tuesday night approved Brown University’s proposed Institutional Master Plan. The university updates its master plan every five years...
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE was ranked No. 1 for a fourth consecutive year in the Regional Universities Nort category in the U.S. News & World Report's annual Best Colleges rankings. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

Brown ranked No. 9 nationally in U.S. News’ annual Best Colleges...

PROVIDENCE – Brown University continues to climb in the rankings as being among the best colleges and universities across the U.S., while Providence College...
MARISA ANGELL BROWN has been named the Providence Preservation Society's new executive director. / COURTESY PROVIDENCE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Brown named Providence Preservation Society’s new executive director

PROVIDENCE – The former associate director of Rhode Island School of Design’s Center for Complexity will now lead the Providence Preservation Society. The historic preservation...

Do you support Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley’s agreement with four...

Providence Mayor Brett P. Smiley on Sept. 5 announced tentative agreements with Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Johnson & Wales University and...
TOUBA GHADESSI recently started her new role as provost at the Rhode Island School of Design. / COURTESY CAT LAINE

Ghadessi appointed new RISD provost

PROVIDENCE – About a year after she began the same full-time position at Wheaton College, Touba Ghadessi shifted her sights to Rhode Island to...
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. 
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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...
TSUGUMI MAKI has been named the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's new director. / COURTESY RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN

RISD Museum names Maki new director

PROVIDENCE – The current chief exhibitions and collections officer at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will head eastward to lead the Rhode...
SPEAKING OUT: Zainabou Thiam, center, a student at the MET School in Providence, speaks at a rally at Brown University on July 8 organized by the Black Lives Matter Rhode Island political action committee. The rally sought to end legacy admissions and support diversity and equity in universities. 
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Diversity advocates take aim at legacy admissions

For Viet Nguyen, a Brown University alumnus and founder of social impact organization EdMobilizer, the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ban on affirmative action presents...
BROWN UNIVERSITY was ranked No. 11 in College Raptor's annual Top 50 Best Colleges in the United States list. / COURTESY BROWN UNIVERSITY

Brown, RISD named among College Raptor’s annual Best Colleges

PROVIDENCE – A pair of local colleges were ranked among the best higher education institutions in the country, according to College Raptor, a wholly...
REWARDING JOB: Kristen Gossler, president of American Trophy and Supply Inc., has expanded the business with her husband, Peter Cameron, since buying it from her parents in 1990. 
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American Trophy’s Gossler succeeding by giving accolades to others

PBN 2023 Business Women Awards ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE: Kristen Gossler | American Trophy and Supply Inc. president FOR SOME, THE PATH that life takes can emerge...
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