College students are making their annual migration back to Rhode Island campuses for the beginning of the fall semester. After the U-Hauls are unpacked and the goodbyes are said, there’s the nettlesome little matter of deciding what to study, a decision

A decade behind schedule, a $350 million downtown high school finally opened on Wednesday after years of environmental, seismic and legal troubles. "We've been waiting a long time to get this," said Uriel Rivera, an 18-year-old senior at the Edward R.

Mr. Shinder was a poet, anthologist and teacher who founded the Y.M.C.A. National Writer?s Voice program, one of the country?s largest networks of literary-arts centers.

You can't blame Bianca Tedford of Flint for being a little nervous this week. On Friday, she'll be singing her lungs out in front of "American Idol" producers in Kansas City, Mo.

Incoming business administration students will face different degree requirements than current students in the McCombs School of Business. In addition to a new upper-division statistics and modeling course, which teaches financial trend predictions, the b