The University of Rhode Island ranked No. 38 on FiestaFrog.com’s list of the 2013 Top 100 College Party Schools more

(Updated Feb. 28, 4 p.m.) Educational endowments to colleges and universities in the Ocean State dropped 6.1 percent in the 2012 fiscal year, according to a report from the NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments produced by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and figures from Providence College. more

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. more

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. more

The New England Institute of Technology earned the No. 14 spot on The Princeton Review’s list of the 15 best undergraduate schools to study video game design, the education services company announced Tuesday. more

Dana L. Priest, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for The Washington Post, will receive the Pell Center prize for “Story in the Public Square” in recognition of her investigative reporting career, the center announced Tuesday. more

The Ashoka U Exchange, a global conference on social innovation and social change, will take place at Brown University in February 2014. The annual event attracts students, university leaders and entrepreneurs. more

(Updated, 2:49 p.m.) Rhode Island’s four-year public colleges increased their tuition fees by $2,907 per year over the last five years, the seventh-highest rate of increase in the country, the Economic Progress Institute reported Tuesday. more

The University of Rhode Island has frozen tuition for the 2013-14 academic year for all students. more

Brown University’s Technology Venture Office has reached an agreement with Lifespan to provide IP management and commercialization services to the health care system and has expanded its existing relationship with the Care New England hospital network, the university announced Monday. more