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Student Advocacy Spurs New Queer Studies Minor
"Continue the revolution," urges Derek Sherlock, "that people like Marsha Johnson and Sylvia Rivera started in the queer community 50 years ago." (From left, Madeleine Dulude, Derek Sherlock and Sissy Rosso)
Filling the Gaps in Art Education
Graduate of the youth development program leads Riverzedge Arts program.
鈥淎 Pipeline of Leadership鈥 鈥 RIC Partners with Boys & Girls Club
This summer RIC President Frank D. S谩nchez initiated a grant-funded partnership between RIC鈥檚 Youth Development Program and the Boys & Girls Club of Providence.
Afterschool Day at the R.I. State House
RIC's Youth Development Program 鈥 faculty, students and alumni 鈥 meet legislatures to advocate for after-school programs
McKamey & Clemons in D.C. to Discuss Nation鈥檚 After-School Programs
鈥淭his opportunity puts the Youth Development Program at RIC at the center of the national conversation about youth workers and begins to bring visibility to our state, our college and our growing program,鈥 said McKamey.
To Repair Rather Than Punish, RIC Hosts Restorative Practice Symposium
鈥淭he goal of schools is to educate. Yet in Rhode Island more than 10,000 students were suspended last year, resulting in more than 43,000 days out of school,鈥 said Colin Murphy, business and communications consultant for Youth Restoration Project (pictured third from left).
Universal Design for Learning and the Arts: A Seminar at RIC
Neuropsychologists have found that right-brain people have different skills and preferences than those who are left-brain. Universal Design for Learning is a framework for instruction that taps both sides of the brain.
RIC Trains Social Workers in Trauma-Informed Care
Grant-funded project targets mental health services for R.I. youth in the child welfare system.
Autism on the Rise - How RIC is Changing the Outcomes
RIC partners with Sherlock Center to create autism education certificate program
RIC Hosts 2014 STEM Career Expo for Girls
In a workshop titled 鈥淟earning to Make Things Fly,鈥 students received a quick lesson in physics and built their own catapult.