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Boston.com
RIC program on college prep gets federal funding
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—A Rhode Island College program that helps high school students prepare for post-secondary education is getting more than $600,000 in federal funding. The state's four-member congressional delegation is officially announcing the $622,000...
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The Westerly Sun
Sports InBrief: High School, Golf, Disc Golf and College news
• Home golf match against Narragansett has not been rescheduled. • Home girls’ lacrosse game against Portsmouth, May 22 at 4 p.m. • Home boys’ tennis match against East Greenwich has not been rescheduled. • Softball game at home against Lyman Memorial, S...
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PRWeb
EBI Announces MAP-Works Scholarship Winners
If MAP-Works did not exist, I would have never been able to overcome the initial obstacles of beginning college life nor tell how grateful I am for MAP-Works’ guidance and encouragement in helping me do so. MAP-Works®, the leading student success and ret...
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Boston.com
State board rejects contracts for college workers
WARWICK, R.I.—The state Board of Governors for Higher Education has rejected four contracts that included 3 percent pay raises for faculty and staff at Rhode Island's public colleges. The Providence Journal reports ( http://bit.ly/ILKMY5) that the board...
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Boston.com
RI College art center to get $17M facelift
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Rhode Island College's art center is being renovated and expanded as part of a $17 million project. The renovated building will include an addition and provide more classrooms, art studios and workshop areas, office space and photography...
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Education News
Julia Steiny: Grand Rounds Support Teacher Learning, Quality
In Part 3 of her series on the University Park Campus School, Julia Steiny examines Dr. Thomas Del Prete’s use of rounds to improve and develop teaching. One day last fall Meghan Rosa was having an ordinary class with her 12th-grade English students at U...
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Brown U. to Pay Its Hometown $31.5-Million to Help Close Budget Gap
Ruth J. Simmons, Brown's president, joined Mr. Taveras and Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island at the State House on Tuesday morning to announce the deal, which still must be approved by the Providence City Council to take effect. Under the agreement, Br...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
First Pittsburgh Promise class to graduate this spring
April 29, 2012 12:26 am Share with others: By Mary Niederberger / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette When Morgan Watkins receives her diploma today from the University of Pittsburgh, she will have a supportive crowd of familiar faces cheering her on, including her...
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Science Daily
Curbing college binge drinking: What role do 'alcohol expectancies' play?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 18, 2012) Researchers at The Miriam Hospital say interventions targeting what college students often see as the pleasurable effects of alcohol -- including loosened inhibitions and feeling more bold and outgoing -- may be one way to s...
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Science Blog
Curbing College Binge Drinking: What Role Do ‘Alcohol Expectancies’ Play?
Researchers at The Miriam Hospital say interventions targeting what college students often see as the pleasurable effects of alcohol – including loosened inhibitions and feeling more bold and outgoing – may be one way to stem the tide of dangerous and wi...
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FOX Business
College Consultants: Worth the Price Tag?
The college admissions process is never an easy one, but today, more parents are turning to professional consultants to help their children get into their top picks by providing help with everything from standardized testing to best practices for intervi...
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Anchor Rising
Governor Chafee Questions Higher Education Costs
The Board of Governors for Higher Education should have known better than to negotiate 3 percent compounded raises at the public colleges for the next three years, when other state employees, taxpayers, and families of college students are so challenged,...
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University Business
Chafee Balks At 3-Percent Raises Proposed For College Employees
Governor Chafee told the chairman of the Board of Governors for Higher Education Wednesday that he cannot support retroactive 3-percent raises tentatively negotiated with faculty at the University of Rhode Island and three other unions at URI, Rhode Isla...
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KnoxNews
YourNews: Maryville College news
Work by ceramic artist Polly Ann Martin will be on display at Maryville College through April 28 in the Clayton Center for the Arts’ Blackberry Farm Gallery. The display features “Recent Work,” a collection of more than 20 of Martin’s wheel thrown earthe...
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ABC6 Columbus Ohio
Chafee balks at retroactive pay raises at colleges
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Gov. Lincoln Chafee has told state college officials that he can't support retroactive 3% pay raises for professors and other employees at Rhode Island's public universities. The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/HovBT7 )...
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