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Students from Diman Regional in Fall River come away with medals in national competition
Diman students from Fall River and Westport proved their merits on the national stage by taking home some hardware. According to Diman Regional, 23 students qualified to compete at this year’s 2024 SkillsUSA National Competition in Atlanta, Georgia. 20 out of 23 Diman students placed in the top 10 competitors in the nation.
CCRI’s first “Building Bridges” event set for Newport
The Community College of Rhode Island will launch its first “Building Bridges” event in Newport on July 17, bringing together key industry leaders and employers from Aquidneck Island to discuss the current and future labor market and workforce training needs. The event, titled “Building Bridges: Connecting Education and...
Roger Williams University Announces Spring 2024 Dean’s List
MORRIS COUNTY — Select students have been named to the Spring 2024 Dean’s List at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I. Full-time students who complete 12 or more credits per semester and earn a GPA of 3.4 or higher are placed on the Dean’s List that semester. The following students are residents of your coverage area:
Lookback on Commencement: protests in context
On June 9, pro-Palestinian and pro-union protesters disrupted Dartmouth’s Commencement ceremony on the Green, according to past reporting by The Dartmouth. The protest joined a wave of similar disruptions on college campuses nationwide. Disruptions at Dartmouth included a march around the Green, a walkout during College President Sian Leah...
Meet Greater Fall River's High School Girls Tennis All-Scholastic Team
FALL RIVER — The Herald News continues Spring All-Scholastics with girls tennis all-stars. There were excellent performances from players from Fall River area schools — Case, Diman, Durfee, Somerset Berkley and Westport — this spring. ...
Off and On: Students Return to Hanover for Sophomore Summer
This past spring, I was lucky enough to be in Rome on the Art History Foreign Study Program. I explored the city, spent hours in museums and traveled across Italy on weekends with the 14 other Dartmouth students who were a part of the program. Dartmouth became a distant memory and Hanover a dot on a continent an ocean away. During prior on-campus terms, as much as I loved trips to the Skiway and chatting with my friends in the Collis Center for Student Life, Dartmouth’s insular nature had become suffocating. To preserve my waning love for Hanover, I needed to leave and experience something different.
State funding to increase paraprofessional positions in New Bedford, Fairhaven schools
As the state and nation continues dealing with a labor shortage, the Healey-Driscoll administration hopes that giving out a total of $15.9 million will help boost various areas of the workforce across the state, according to a press release. While funds coming into some Massachusetts communities will be used to help industries like health care, CDL driving, and restaurants, the portion coming into SouthCoast will be dedicated to putting more people in paraprofessional positions at New Bedford and Fairhaven public schools, as well as helping existing paras become licenced teachers. ...
Local Student Earns Academic Honors
Local Students Graduate From College of the Holy Cross. Holy Cross celebrated 751 bachelor of arts degree recipients at its 178th Commencement held in person on Friday, May 24 at the DCU Center in Worcester. Dr. Laurie Leshin, director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and former president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute delivered this year’s address to the Class of 2024 and received an honorary degree.
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