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Brown University ranked among the top 81 to 90 institutions of higher education in the 2013 global ranking of universities by reputation in the third annual ranking by the Times Higher Education.
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By PBN Staff
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Salve Regina University will launch a new Bachelor of Science degree program in health care administration and management beginning in the upcoming fall 2013 semester, the school announced Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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The University of Rhode Island has received a $1 million gift from the Bernard Osher Foundation to support URI’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, a continuing education program open to Rhode Islanders ages 50 and older.
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By PBN Staff
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Home ownership is out of reach for the average Latino household in Rhode Island, according to data from the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University and HousingWorks RI.
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By PBN Staff
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The Providence City Council approved the lease of the decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry Middle School for private nonprofit charter school network Achievement First to base the Providence Mayoral Academy Elementary.
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For the first time, new research reveals that the United States is on track to meet a goal of a 90 percent national high school graduation rate by 2020, according to a report released Monday.
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By PBN Staff
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Students from Brown University’s Common Sense Action group will host the Rhode Island Fiscal Summit on Saturday on the school’s campus to “address the fiscal challenges facing the United States.”
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By PBN Staff
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Oliver Hazard Perry Rhode Island has announced that the SSV Oliver Hazard Perry, which the nonprofit is building as Rhode Island’s official sailing education vessel, has been granted a permanent home on the north side of a new pier being built as part of improvements at Fort Adams State Park.
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Six of Rhode Island’s nine four-year colleges and universities raised a combined $205.6 million in the 2012 fiscal year, an increase of 6.3 percent compared with 2011, according to a report released Wednesday by the Council for Aid to Education.
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State Education Commissioner Deborah A. Gist has sent a letter to “friends of education” explaining her support for new graduation requirements following the recent release of 2012 NECAP assessments that showed about 4,100 students at risk of not graduating.
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By PBN Staff
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