Roger Williams - first year for Ioannis Miaoulis
Salve Regina - first year for Kelli J. Armstrong
Providence College - first year for Rev. Kenneth R. Sicard
While RIC and CCRI’s Presidents have been in place for a number of years — they must defer to the Governor, the legislature and their board regarding their financial fate.
Only Brown’s Christina Paxson has longevity — she was named president in 2012 and had her contract extended in February through to 2025.
A major report by the Wall Street Journal finds "typical families at dozens of schools are borrowing almost $100,000 to finance student education, data from the U.S. Education Department show. The figures reveal the amount of debt parents took on through a federal college loan program called Parent Plus. The data “provides a more complete financial picture of how recent graduates have paid for their postsecondary education, especially if their parents took on debt to help them cover some or all of the costs."