The new, young President of the Rhode Island School of Design is trying to create a generation of artreprenuers, designers who are also entrepreneurs.
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The one in 20 applicants who manages to get in--like those at Parsons in New York or the Rhode Island School of Design--has a leg up.
When Shepard Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design in the late 1980s, a friend asked him how to make a stencil.
John Maeda of the Rhode Island School of Design (formerly of the MIT Media Lab) and Jon Gebbia of AirBnB sat down together to talk about creativity within business.
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He later finished his degree at the Rhode Island School of Design, where honed his design skills, built out sport utility vehicles from spare parts and fleshed out the idea of what would become the basis of the C-1.
He and his team are taking the next few weeks to gather interest from students and backers alike, before fully opening the platform in September to students and recent alumni at its first five schools, Arizona State University, Dartmouth College, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Michigan and University of Washington.
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The genesis of the modern-day share economy is best traced to San Francisco in 2008, where Chesky and Joe Gebbia, recent Rhode Island School of Design graduates who had fled west, thought they could make some pocket cash by housing attendees at an industrial design conference on air beds in their apartment.
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"This is really a story about how people unintentionally impact ecosystems, " explained co-author Autumn Oczkowski from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography.
Fitzgerald received a parochial education at the Portsmouth Abbey School in Rhode Island, which is run by an order of Benedictine monks.
The American Federation of Teachers, one of the nation's largest teachers' unions, even complained about President Obama after the chief executive referenced the Rhode Island firings and praised the school district for taking the action.
Parker, who grew up in Barrington, Rhode Island, said he encourages high school students to look to the future and consider what candidates say about issues that matter to them such as the environment or Internet security.
Jordan's name began to surface last week, after Dan Hurley received a contract extension from Rhode Island and elected to stay at the Atlantic 10 school.
Some school districts in Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Georgia and Illinois are trying another approach, called controlled choice.
But Rhode Island gave him a deal through the 2019-20 season, and the school promised to commit itself financially to improving the program.
Last year, the Rhode Island General Assembly adopted the "Lindsay Ann Burke Act, " which requires each public school district to provide curriculum and policy on teen dating violence and abuse.
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