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Rhode Island College is interviewing for its next president. Here are the candidates
A new president is expected to be announced in January 2024. But it could be a familiar face.
The search for Rhode Island College’s next president is heating up, with interviews underway this week. The Rhode Island Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner confirmed that three candidates are in the running, with interviews set to wrap on Friday.
Who are the applicants, and what might they bring to the table? Here’s a primer.
Jack Warner, interim president, Rhode Island College
Jack Warner was appointed interim president at RIC in July 2022, having previously served in various education roles. That list includes teaching higher education at Johnson and Wales University, advising for a consulting firm called the Education Strategy Group, leading the South Dakota Board of Regents and heading up the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education.
The April 2022 vote to make Warner the interim president was unanimous. Since then, Warner has had to keep the school on solid financial footing amid a decline in enrollment – as The Providence Journal reported last year – and he has also weighed cutting staff.
But Warner has presented a vision for RIC’s future as an economic engine for the Ocean State, looking to attract applicants that may already have some college under their belt. (In Rhode Island, that’s more than 100,000 people.)
Warner will be interviewed on Friday.
More: A familiar face chosen as interim president of Rhode Island College
Dean Libutti, associate vice president for enrollment management and student success, University of Rhode Island
Dean Libutti, who joined the University of Rhode Island in 1999, was named associate vice president for enrollment management and student success in 2021. According to the university, that entails “leadership in enrollment planning, recruitment, and retention through collaboration and partnership with faculty and staff.”
In 2023, Libutti led a “re-enrollment” initiative at the university for students who paused their education during the pandemic, and hadn’t yet returned.
In an announcement of the program, URI said Libutti launched the effort after seeing how many K-12 students in the state stopped going to school.
Libutti also earned himself coverage from The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2019 when URI’s first-year retention rate crept past 85%, a record at the time. (Since then it has fallen again slightly. As of 2022, URI reported the rate at around 84%.)
Libutti was interviewed on Wednesday.
Jeffrey Osborn, former provost and vice president for academic affairs, The College of New Jersey
Jeffrey Osborn was The College of New Jersey’s provost and vice president for academic affairs for four years, leaving his role this year. Before that, he was the longtime dean of the college’s School of Science where he taught biology.
When Osborn decided to step down, The Signal, the college’s newspaper, reported that he would take a yearlong sabbatical then return to the college as a tenured biology professor.
According to the paper, Osborn “worked extensively on community college partnerships, including reviewing 3,500 community college courses and updating credit equivalency,” drastically increasing the number of transferrable credits for students.
Similarly, RIC has articulation agreements with Bristol Community College, the Community College of Rhode Island and Quinebaug Valley Community College, emphasizing on its website that it can help students avoid retaking courses.
Osborn was interviewed on Monday.
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RI Lottery Powerball, Lucky For Life winning numbers for Nov. 1, 2025
The Rhode Island Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Nov. 1, 2025, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from Nov. 1 drawing
02-26-43-44-62, Powerball: 22, Power Play: 2
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Lucky For Life numbers from Nov. 1 drawing
06-19-28-38-46, Lucky Ball: 08
Check Lucky For Life payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Numbers numbers from Nov. 1 drawing
Midday: 2-0-1-3
Evening: 6-3-4-0
Check Numbers payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Wild Money numbers from Nov. 1 drawing
06-14-15-17-20, Extra: 29
Check Wild Money payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your prize
- Prizes less than $600 can be claimed at any Rhode Island Lottery Retailer. Prizes of $600 and above must be claimed at Lottery Headquarters, 1425 Pontiac Ave., Cranston, Rhode Island 02920.
- Mega Millions and Powerball jackpot winners can decide on cash or annuity payment within 60 days after becoming entitled to the prize. The annuitized prize shall be paid in 30 graduated annual installments.
- Winners of the Lucky for Life top prize of $1,000 a day for life and second prize of $25,000 a year for life can decide to collect the prize for a minimum of 20 years or take a lump sum cash payment.
When are the Rhode Island Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 10:59 p.m. ET on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 11:00 p.m. ET on Tuesday and Friday.
- Lucky for Life: 10:30 p.m. ET daily.
- Numbers (Midday): 1:30 p.m. ET daily.
- Numbers (Evening): 7:29 p.m. ET daily.
- Wild Money: 7:29 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Rhode Island editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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Rhode Island State Police, DEA agents seize 141,000 Fetanyl pills | ABC6
JOHNSTON, R.I. (WLNE) — Rhode Island State Police said that a joint operation with the DEA Providence District Office and the Massachusetts State Police in Johnston, Warwick, and Massachusetts resulted in the arrest of four suspects and the seizure of 141,000 Fentanyl pills.
Yhoan A Carmona German, Josue Carmona German, Angel F. Pena Rodriguez, and Debhani Garza were all arrested as part of the operation.
State police said the operation took place in September and October and was the result of an investigation into a Dominican Drug Trafficking Organization.
Some the charges the suspects face include possession with the intent to distribute narcotics and conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl.
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Rhode Island public school charges mother $117K for records request about teacher who called Charlie Kirk ‘garbage’
A Rhode Island public school district reportedly charged a mother roughly $117,000 for records pertaining to a high school teacher who was placed on paid leave after calling slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk a “piece of garbage.”
Benjamin Fillo, a social studies teacher at Barrington High School, was ousted in September shortly after posting a rant on TikTok branding Kirk a “piece of garbage” who “hated” the LGBTQ community, women’s rights, and democracy.
One irate mother submitted a public records request for information related to Fillo’s school email and course materials — but the district pushed back with a steep fee, according to a letter from the law firm representing Barrington Public Schools.
Nicole Solas sought to obtain any emails Fillo sent from Sept. 1 2024 onward referencing “Trump” and a secondary request for more email correspondences sent since Jan 1. 2016 also flagging “Trump.”
Solas additionally asked for all of Fillo’s “curriculum materials” he used “to teach the young and impressionable minds of other people’s children who are entitled to an education free from indoctrination,” according to the letter.
The law firm wrote that Solas clarified she was looking for all material Fillo used since he started teaching at the school in 2010, which came out to thousands of documents from 157 courses stored in three different learning management systems, according to the letter.
The records request flagged a staggering 789 emails Fillo sent containing the word “Trump” since Sept. 1 2024, according to the letter.
Solas’ request, though, wasn’t cheap.
If she wanted to obtain all the requested materials, she would have to fork over $117,130.50 — with the 15-year curriculum alone costing roughly $116,000, according to the letter.
“This estimate that we received is exorbitant, completely unreasonable, just to get the curriculum materials,” Solas told Fox News Digital in an interview Thursday.
Solas told the outlet that she insisted on reviewing the curriculum materials in full because that is “the only way that you can see what kids are [doing] in public schools.”
Solas noted that she does not live in the Barrington School District and sent her children to private school.
She’s now pushing the school to release the materials free of charge.
“I just don’t see how this can stand if we file a lawsuit on it,” Solas said.
Shortly after Fillo was placed on leave, a group of outraged students and parents stormed into a school board meeting to push for Fillo’s permanent removal.
“No matter what anyone says to me, I will never stand for violence, especially of a man who was publicly murdered in front of his wife, one of his children and thousands of students and other bystanders,” Jakari, one of Fillo’s students, said during the meeting.
Kirk was assassinated during a stop on his Turning Point USA American Comeback tour at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. His alleged gunman, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, was charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice.
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