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Domino’s sells a lot of pizza to college students, but the company is having trouble hiring its former customers for high-tech jobs because there aren’t enough graduates in those fields, the company’s president told lawmakers.

Providence’s mayor is set to meet with Brown University’s president on Wednesday as he seeks more in voluntary payments from the Ivy League school to help close a $22.5 million budget shortfall.

Providence's mayor on Wednesday announced a tentative deal with Johnson & Wales University under which the school would more than triple its annual voluntary payments to the financially struggling city -- and possibly contribute even more.

Initiative asks Baltimoreans to vote for favorite sports legend

When Providence Mayor Angel Taveras recently warned that Rhode Island's capital could run out of cash by June and face bankruptcy, he singled out the city's largest employer and one of its most prestigious institutions -- Brown University -- for what he called a failure to sacrifice.

The opening of the University of Texas at Arlington’s College Park Center was the place to see and be seen Wednesday night.

It happened to Gary McCollum a few weeks ago, just as it has to other Norfolk State University board members. Someone stopped McCollum, the rector of the Board of Visitors, to say: “Wow, your new president at Norfolk State is everywhere.”

In a few short years, the Capitol Region Education Council's reach has expanded to thousands of Hartford students who attend its 15 magnet schools.

An infrared camera eyed temperature differences around the house, and a blower set in the doorway identified drafty spots.

Because of their safety concerns for students on campus, Norfolk State University officials forced a $7 million relocation of the light-rail station across Brambleton Avenue, to move it away from the school.