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An 8 Point Plan for RI's $228M Surplus
rhodeislandcurrent.com
Brown Among Schools Affected by Canvas Cyberattack
coastalabc.com: A cyberattack on Instructure, the parent company of the Canvas digital classroom platform, impacted Brown University, Barrington Public Schools, and Providence Public Schools in Rhode Island, with hackers gaining access to student and faculty names, email addresses, student IDs, and Canvas messages, but not financial or personal data, disrupting student access to learning materials during finals week.
New Linguistic Professor Puts RI on the Language Map
uri.edu: URI College of Education associate professor Steve Przymus is mapping Rhode Island's linguistic landscape through the Translanguaging Lab's Putting Rhode Island on the Map project, documenting over 100 languages spoken in the state which has the fastest-growing multilingual learner population in the U.S., drawing parallels between linguistic diversity in Rhode Island and along the U.S.-Mexico border in Sonora.
URI-DEM Partnership Will Reopen W. Alton Jones Campus in September
rhodeislandcurrent.com: URI's 2,300-acre W. Alton Jones Campus in West Greenwich, closed since 2020, is set to reopen on Labor Day under a URI-DEM partnership backed by more than $2 million in renovations to the Environmental Education Center, surrounding cabins, and farm buildings, restoring public access to fishing, non-motorized boating, and expanded trail networks for the first time in six years.
College of Education's Medallion Ceremony Welcomes Rhode Island Teacher of the Year
uri.edu: Rhode Island Teacher of the Year Sarah Dully of Narragansett High School served as keynote speaker at URI's third annual Medallion Induction Ceremony, celebrating the College of Education's largest-ever class of 215 new teacher graduates and the first cohorts of three new programs in Environmental Education, Early Childhood Education, and Project SUSTAIN.