Tag: Westerly Education Center
Curry College will offer graduates a job guarantee. Should local colleges...
PROVIDENCE – Less than a year after becoming Curry College’s new president, Jay Gonzalez needed to find a way to make his Milton, Mass.-based...
Class of their own: More employers partnering with local colleges
Although he had some experience working in construction, Kolby Gomes says learning the ins and outs of pipefitting was like studying a foreign language.
But...
State awards $5.9M in housing, community development grants
PROVIDENCE – Fourteen local cities and towns received 31 housing and community development grants totaling $5.9 million from the state, Gov. Daniel J. McKee...
CCRI names Fino new executive director of workforce partnerships
WARWICK – Cody Fino, who has served as the Community College of Rhode Island’s director of industry partnerships, has been promoted to executive director...
Amgen strives to find, groom new talent through various avenues
PBN Manufacturing Awards 2022
EXCELLENCE IN WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT & PRODUCTIVITY:
Amgen Rhode Island
AS ONE OF THE LARGEST manufacturing companies in the state, Amgen Inc. has a...
New Woonsocket Education Center officially opens
WOONSOCKET – State-elected and education officials on Tuesday formally cut the ribbon on the new Woonsocket Education Center that has officially opened at 115...
Amy Gryzbowski
2022 40 Under Forty Awards
Amy Grzybowski, 39
Assistant commissioner of workforce, R.I. Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner
How has COVID-19 changed your industry? Many of our...
Despite no higher ed academy, Gilkey optimistic in state closing workforce...
PROVIDENCE – Optimism remains with the R.I. Office of Postsecondary Commissioner on the state addressing workforce shortages and helping residents achieve an education despite...
Leaders lay groundwork to ‘supercharge’ training
It was a first at Rhode Island College.
At the start of the spring semester, the college started offering a fully online degree – a...
PC president looks to market Friars’ brand on national level
(Editor’s note: This is the first installment in an occasional series of interviews with the state’s new wave of higher education leaders.)
The Rev. Kenneth...