PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- At an event designed to highlight several education initiatives -- including a pilot program that enables low-income students to take college courses while still in high school -- Governor Carcieri and key political and educational leaders are scheduled to gather at Rhode Island College for a [...]
The Rhode Island Senate will be holding an economic policy forum on Monday, December 7, from 5 to 8 p.m., at Rhode Island College. The focus of the event will be the interrelationship of federal, state and municipal budgets.
The Director of the Washington, DC office [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --As part of an effort to attract more out-of-state students, Rhode Island College is offering a $6,000 tuition break to Massachusetts students who transfer to the public four-year college from Bristol Community College in Fall River.
RIC President Nancy Carriuolo signed a formal transfer "articulation" agreement with [...]
PROVIDENCE -- Monday morning, U.S. Senator Jack Reed is scheduled to go to Rhode Island College and announce that more than $280,000 in federal financing is coming to the college's School of Nursing, to upgrade a learning laboratory that simulates a real-world hospital setting.
Students use the lab to [...]
Economist Richard Wolff’s “Capitalism Hits the Fan” began as a lecture that grew into a book and documentary film. Wolff will present his nationally acclaimed analysis of the current economic crisis on Wednesday, Dec. 2, from 12:30-1:45 p.m. in Gaige Hall Auditorium at Rhode Island College. [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The enrollments at the state's three public colleges hit record highs this fall, with 43,412 students attending the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College and the Community College of Rhode Island, even as state support for the institutions continues to decline.
State higher education [...]
