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Brown, other colleges and universities and many individual students stand to gain from the stimulus package signed by President Obama last month.

The bill, officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, will provide between $50 billion and $75 billion for students and colleges, Inside Higher Ed reported last month. A large portion of the money will go to student aid and infrastructure improvement and will benefit both public and private institutions, though in different ways.

PROVIDENCE — The approximately 144 members of the full-time teachers’ union at the Rhode Island School of Design have voted to voluntarily freeze wages and stipends for the next fiscal year.

The vote Wednesday night by the Full-Time Faculty Association of RISD, a union affiliated with the National Education Association, will modify their contract to keep wages at the current level for the 2009-2010 fiscal year. All other terms of the union’s three-year pact with the school will remain in place.

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (March 5, 2009) – On April 18, Bryant University’s Confucius Institute will become one of the first institutions in Southern New England to offer all three levels of China’s Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi (HSK), known as the Chinese Proficiency Test.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 /PRNewswire/ — Today Gap unveiled works of original art from Rhode Island School of Design [RISD] students and faculty. Their canvas? Gap’s new spring cardigan. In a unique partnership, Gap enlisted leading RISD students to deconstruct, rethink and rework its latest spring cardigans to create original pieces that reflect their own fashion point-of-view. Thirty one-of-a-kind cardigans [$68] are now available exclusively at Gap’s rotating concept venue adjacent to its flagship store at 54th and 5th Ave.