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The transformative power of Bryant’s IDEA program

SMITHFIELD, RI – Last week, about 800 Bryant first-year students emerged exhausted but invigorated by their Bryant IDEA experience with new ways of looking at the world. The Bryant IDEA (Innovation and Design experience for all) is a three-day, high-energy, immersive design thinking boot camp that strips away students’ preconceived ways of learning. This innovative program challenges students to shift their intellectual focus from getting the “right” answer or “earning an A” to developing characteristics such as curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, perseverance and grit. It sets a foundation that prepares future leaders for success no matter what the AI and data-driven future brings.

IDEA challenges students to shift their intellectual focus from getting the “right” answer or “earning an A” to developing characteristics such as curiosity, critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, perseverance and grit.

Students get through this rigorous and immersive experience with the support and guidance of almost 200 faculty, staff, student, and alumni mentors, as well as more than 100 alumni and regional business leaders who serve as judges. For three days Bryant’s entire campus becomes a Silicon Valley start-up environment as students dig deep to come up with solutions for one of 35 participating regional businesses…Read More

$3 billion BrownTogether campaign eclipses $2 billion milestone

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Just outside Brown’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, construction crews are hard at work clearing a site for a cutting-edge Performing Arts Center, where students and faculty will soon push the boundaries of innovation in arts scholarship and performance. Steps away on Angell Street, researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science are working toward cures for the world’s most persistent and devastating neurological disorders.

Elsewhere on campus, 31 faculty members in recently endowed professorships are advancing research to find solutions to urgent global challenges. New admissions and financial aid initiatives are attracting talented, high-achieving students from an expanding range of socioeconomic backgrounds. And once on campus, students are thriving thanks to new support for academic programs, campus facilities, wellness initiatives, athletics and more…Read More

Bryant Physician Assistant Program is first in RI to earn full accreditation

SMITHFIELD, RI – Bryant University’s Master of Science in Physician Assistant (PA) Studies program has been granted full accreditation by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the Physician Assistant, Inc. (ARC-PA),earning Accreditation-Continued status.

This rigorous full accreditation is a distinction that has proven especially challenging for the state’s PA programs to achieve, and Bryant’s program is the first PA program in R.I. to receive it.

Bryant’s PA program was launched in January 2014 as the first program of the University’s School of Health Sciences. During the conditional accreditation period, the program has met or exceeded the required standards to be granted Accreditation-Continued status. The next review of the program will be June 2028 and will include periodic compliance reporting and a visit by members of the ARC-PA…Click to Read More

Summit explores ways to best meet mental health needs of Rhode Island college students

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Speaking at a Jan. 8 summit on postsecondary mental health convened by Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, Brown University President Christina Paxson said that first-rate mental health support for undergraduates is crucial not just because it aids them during college, but because it positions them for successful lives and careers as well.

“The thing that is most highly correlated with good health — mental and physical — throughout life is having a college degree,” Paxson said. “And so getting students out of high school, into college and through college — this is something that’s going to pay off in tremendous ways throughout their lives.”

Paxson joined Rhode Island College President Frank Sánchez and Roger Williams University Interim President Andrew Workman for a panel discussion that explored best practices in successfully meeting the mental health needs of today’s college students…Click to Read More