PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Library Association will celebrate Money Smart Week at Your Library April 20-27 with a series of financial-literacy programs at participating libraries. more

NEWPORT – Salve Regina University has announced a new, 36-credit master’s degree in applied behavioral analysis, the first program of its kind in Rhode Island. more

PROVIDENCE – Thirteen Providence College professors are taking part this semester in a trial program to incorporate Apple iPads into classrooms to allow them to move about freely while lecturing and to let students access recordings or notes after class. more

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has formed national fair-housing, collegiate-partnership campaigns with Roger Williams University and the University of Massachusetts School of Law - Dartmouth. more

From two signatures, great progress can be made. more

With twin announcements last week concerning its School of Engineering, Brown University revealed and emphasized the direction it is taking over the next few years. more

When Johnson & Wales University senior Julia McNellis was just 7 years old, she fell off a horse and, as the saying goes, got right back on the saddle. more

It isn’t a new thought that something must be done within Rhode Island’s higher education system to provide easier, more-affordable access to post-secondary education to create a workforce matched to the state’s available jobs. more

Ronald K. Machtley, president of Bryant University, raised his glass of baijiu, a Chinese white liquor, and toasted the signing of two new educational partnership agreements with the People’s Republic of China, paraphrasing a Chinese saying popularized by Mao Zedong: “Each new partnership begins with a single step.” more

BOSTON – Attorney General Martha Coakley this month launched a consumer-protection campaign that includes free educational training across the state and a new website offering resources for consumers related to for-profit schools. more