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SMOOTHER PATHWAY: Rosemary Costigan is the interim president of the Community College of Rhode Island, which is partnering with Rhode Island College on a fully online program that will provide students a smoother pathway to a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree. PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

2 colleges join forces to clear path for nurses

Education 06/20/2025

When Patricia Kelling’s son was born with severe heart problems years ago, she struggled to understand what was wrong. “I didn’t know what the doctors...

CCRI partners with RIC to launch online RN to BSN program

Health Services 05/16/2025

PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College recently announced a fully online Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in...

CCRI, Partnership for R.I. launching work-based learning pilot this fall

Education 06/27/2024

PROVIDENCE – The Community College of Rhode Island and The Partnership for Rhode Island are teaming up to create a work-based learning pilot program...

$5M gift helps CCRI, Bally’s form workforce development partnership

Education 09/14/2023

LINCOLN – A landmark partnership between the state’s community college and a prominent gaming conglomerate looks to both enhance higher education and provide employment...

ROSEMARY COSTIGAN has been appointed as the Community College of Rhode Island's interim president. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

Costigan appointed as CCRI’s interim president

Education 05/04/2023

WARWICK – Rosemary Costigan, currently the Community College of Rhode Island’s vice president of academic affairs, has been voted by the R.I. Council on...

SIGNING UP: Kayla Amado, an occupational therapist, is one of the growing number of people applying to the Community College of Rhode Island nursing program. She is in the CCRI lab at the Warwick campus. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Many nursing schools see spike in applications

Education 04/02/2021

Kayla Amado has seen the horrors of the coronavirus up close as a front-line worker. Amado worked in a Providence-based rehabilitation facility when COVID-19 cases...

4 CCRI professors receive national excellence awards

Education 05/31/2019

WARWICK – Four Community College of Rhode Island faculty members have received the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Excellence Awards during the...

THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE of Rhode Island has reached a partnership agreement with the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter High School./ COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI partners with charter high school for ‘seamless pathway’ to nursing...

Education 04/23/2019

WARWICK – The Community College of Rhode Island is partnering with a nursing charter high school to remove barriers and provide a "seamless pathway"...

NINETY PERCENT of the more than 250 students taking classes during the Community College of Rhode Island’s January 2019 winter session received a passing grade. / COURTESY COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND

CCRI: 90 percent of winter session students received passing grades

Education 02/15/2019

WARWICK – Community College of Rhode Island’s first winter session in more than three decades received a passing grade – both literally and figuratively. The...