University deans explain strategies behind selecting full-time, part-time faculty

While looking at potential future classes, students are provided with class options that vary between part-time and full-time professors. But, there are several factors that affect the hiring of each type for the deans at the University of Rhode Island. The Common Data Set, published for the academic year 2015-2016, stated that the number of…

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Students’ nursing school petition gains support but not ground, administration responds

A petition against mandatory class sessions at the new Nursing Education Center in Providence, Rhode Island, is unlikely to effect change despite gaining almost 2,000 signatures in two weeks. The petition, started by junior nursing student Rachel Vafides, was started after an announcement was made that the nursing school’s second-semester juniors and all seniors would…

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Student Senate report: 11/9

Student Organization Advisory Review Committee Chairwoman Samantha King brought forth a bill to recognize the philanthropic group For the Future as a university-unfunded organization, at Student Senate’s weekly meeting. The organization aims to bring primary and secondary education to the underprivileged and poorer youth in Africa, specifically in Rwanda, where the founder of the organization…

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