The key contract details for URIâs new president
Marc Parlange will be paid $500,000 and receive a host of other benefits during his first year at the public institution
By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 27, 2021, 1 hour ago
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A sign on the campus of the University of Rhode Island, in South Kingstown, R.I., Wednesday, July 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Steven Senne/Associated Press
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Dooley prepares to say goodbye to southern Rhode Island
KINGSTON â The Board of Trustees for the University of Rhode Island has officially named President David M. Dooleyâs replacement, though heâll still sit at the helm for another few months.Â
Last week, the board announced the selection of Professor Marc B. Parlange, provost and senior vice president of Monash University in Australia, as the universityâs next president. In August, heâll be taking the reins from Dooley â who for more than a decade has been a major driving force of development and transformation in Kingston.Â
âI just want to say, on a personal note, Iâve really enjoyed living here amongst all of you,â Dooley told members of the South Kingstown Town Council on Monday. âThe Town of South Kingstown has been a great place for us, as a family. Lynn and I have enjoyed a lot of what South County, and particularly South Kingstown, has to offer.âÂ
From “Spite Fence,’’ by Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), a New Hampshire-based poet
“They must be out of their minds.’’ Prince Philip (born 1921), in the Solomon Islands in 1982, after he was told that the annual population growth there was 5 percent. The prince, aka the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9, was famous for “outrageous” remarks, some of which were very funny – to some of us.
Encouraging the Anti-Vaxxers
The decision to “pause’’ the Johnson & Johnson one-shot COVID-19 vaccine is unfortunate. After all, only a minuscule number of people (six out of 6.8 million as of last Tuesday) who have been jabbed with it have gotten blood clots. The biggest danger of pulling the vaccine is that too many people will decide not to get vaccinated with any shot. Getting COVID-19 is far, far, far more dangerous than any vaccine for it. And J&J’s vaccine is particularly useful because it requires only one shot to be effective, and thus is obviously
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