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RIC Students Team Up with NBC10 on Video Project
Rhode Island College ImpactCommunication students experience political reporting firsthand.
The ADP Takes an Inside Look at Political Speechwriting
This forum explored the unique and intimate relationship between speechwriter and speaker.
Leaders of Timor-Leste Share Country’s Story of Freedom
From left, Prime Minister Rui Maria de Araújo, RIC President Frank D. Sánchez and Minister of Planning and Strategic Investment Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão.
When the War Comes Home: Trauma in Military Families
About 10 percent of soldiers who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan were deployed three times or more, exposing them for longer and longer periods to the problems that affect all service members – combat-related brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Classism – America’s Great Divide
Community and counseling psychologist Barbara Jensen delivered the Dialogue on Diversity Spring Lecture titled “Across the Great Divide: Crossing Classes and Clashing Cultures” before a standing-room-only audience.
American Democracy Project to Examine African Americans and Politics in America
A distinguished panel of community leaders offer their perspective
Segregation is Back in America’s Public Schools
On November 14, 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges integrated the William Frantz Public School. In retaliation, white parents withdrew their children and Bridges’s father was fired from his job. Ruby completed the first grade alone. Ruby’s walk to school the first day, escorted by U.S. Marshals, inspired the 1964 Norman Rockwell painting “The Problem We All Live With.”
Born on the Tail of a Hurricane: RIC Adjunct Jennifer Bonin
“I was born during Hurricane Agnes, one of New England’s earliest land-falling hurricanes. It seems hurricanes have been following me ever since,” says RIC Adjunct Instructor of Geography Jennifer Bonin ’04.
"In Search of Roger Williams," A Lecture by J. Stanley Lemons
This Rhode Island historian says long-held facts about Roger Williams are simply fiction.
Waiting for the End of the World
People have been predicting the end of time almost since the beginning of it. And without exception, they have all been wrong. So why would anyone believe that the world is going to end on Dec. 21, 2012?