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Tag: Community College of Rhode Island
Community Colleges
To Improve Student Retention, IEBC’s Initiative Aims to Create More Caring Campuses
Research indicates that students who lack a connection with their institution are less likely to return for the next semester.
May 27, 2021
Community Colleges
Community College of Rhode Island Faculty Protest Shorter Winter Session
Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) faculty held a demonstration on the campus earlier this week to protest a shorter 12-day winter session that they claim “will fail the very students it purports to serve.” CCRI winter session courses are scheduled to occur from Jan. 2 to 17. The CCRI Faculty Association added that the […]
January 3, 2019
News Roundup
Free Tuition Program Succeeding at Rhode Island Community College
About 40 percent of students who received free college tuition in the first year of a new program in Rhode Island have earned the scholarship for a second year, according to a story by the Associated Press. Gov. Gina Raimondo visited Tuesday with students benefiting from the program she created at the Community College of […]
October 3, 2018
Students
Rhode Island’s Free College Tuition Proposal Off to Rocky Start
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo’s signature initiative this year – a proposal for two years of free tuition at the state’s public colleges — is off to a rocky start. House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello, a fellow Democrat, took to Twitter last month to call it “unsustainable and fiscally irresponsible.” Other lawmakers have […]
March 12, 2017
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