Partnerships for Success Statewide Event on December 7, 2011
Community, Schools and Colleges: Sharing Best Practices for Effective Partnerships
8:30 - 11:30 AM
New England Institute of Technology, East Greenwich, RI
Read more and register HERE
COLLEGE CRUSADE ANNOUNCES 2011 FALL PROGRAMS
Saturday, October 15, 2011
The College Crusade of Rhode Island has announced the start of its 2011 fall schedule, which includes dozens of free programs and activities designed to increase educational and career success for students in Rhode Island’s low-income urban communities. College Crusade programs are offered weekdays after school, on weekends, and during school vacations. Programs range from academic enrichment and science workshops to college visits, career exploration, and adventure education. Click here to learn more about these programs.
R.I. charter school to teach nursing
01:00 AM EDT on Thursday, July 7, 2011
PROVIDENCE –– A new charter high school designed to train nurses is expected to win final approval from the state Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education Thursday afternoon.
The school, which would be public and paid for by taxpayers, is scheduled to open in downtown Providence in September, starting with 136 10th and 11th graders. Read the original article in its entirely at http://www.projo.com/news/content/nurses_middle_college_07-07-11_GKPlK8I_v59.330e5.html
Community-Based Service-Learning: Engaging PK-16 Students in Out-of-School Settings
CRANSTON — Many partnerships between colleges and elementary and secondary schools are “tinkering around the edges” of education, but have little or no impact on children’s achievement, says Brian McCadden, dean of the School of Professional Studies at Providence College.
At R.I. policy summit, educators call for more collaboration
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HIGHER ED UNVEILS NEW WEB PORTAL WITH A SEARCHABLE, INTERACTIVE PARTNERSHIP DATABASE AT PK-16 POLICY SUMMIT
Who: Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education
Association of Independent Colleges & Universities of Rhode Island
Rhode Island Campus Compact
The summit featured the launch of a new, searchable, interactive database of existing PK-16 partnerships across Rhode Island. The database allows for faster, easier and greater collaboration between the higher education and K-12 communities in seeking and forming partnerships between individual departments at various higher education institutions and K-12 school districts and their individual schools.
Fall/Winter 2010: RI Partnerships for Success is profiled in the Fall/Winter 2010 edition of Edworks, a publication of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Rhode Island.
September 2010: National Science Foundation awards URI $20 million to stimulate marine life science research in Rhode Island.
Included in this grant is funding to “enhance its enrichment, tutoring and professional development programs for middle and high school students and teachers.” Learn more >
August 2010: RICC Awarded Funding for Service-Learning.
Rhode Island Campus Compact was awarded funding from the Corporation for National Service to support efforts that bring together PK-12 schools with community and higher education partners to engage PK-12 students in service-learning. A targeted grant program is being developed along with professional development opportunities open to all RI educators. Go to Rhode Island Campus Compact website for more information.
If you have news to share about PK-16 Partnerships in Rhode Island, please send it via email to chertzbe@risd.edu or pmulcahey@aicuri.org
