Parlange to serve as URI s 12th President
The Board of Trustees of the University of Rhode Island announced on Monday the selection of Professor Marc B. Parlange to serve as the University s 12th President
He will succeed David M. Dooley, who joined URI in July 2009. Parlange’s appointment is effective August 1, 2021.
He was born in Providence to parents who emigrated from France and Ireland. Parlange will leave Monash, a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with an enrollment of more than 85,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
URI has 17,000 undergraduate and graduate students, a budget of more than $800 million and four campuses.