Welcome to the "Ocean State" and the University of Rhode Island - a comprehensive learning community with a small school flavor. Like much of the world around you, the University of Rhode Island is a community in transition. Together, URI's faculty, staff and administrators are striving to bring focus to our vast array of programs, create closer working relationships between students and faculty, replace large lectures with integrated seminars that blend the teaching of theory with the learning of life skills, and provide students with a rich culture which will foster their learning.

Located in southern Rhode Island, URI is a quintessential New England campus - rural in feeling yet close to the city of Providence, the state's capital. Linked to the city, the beaches, and nearly every corner of the state by both rail and public transit, the campus is easily accessible from Boston and New York. The University also maintains a marine campus, an environmental campus and conference center, and an urban campus in downtown Providence. Like our small state, URI has something for everyone.

As you browse through URI's program offerings, you will discover that we have over 100 majors in seven degree-granting colleges. There are more than 12,000 students on the Kingston campus, about 3,000 in Providence, and a complement of about 700 faculty. URI researchers are engaged in projects that have local, national and international implications in programs as diverse as oceanography, family violence and behavior change, environmental cleanup, education reform, the "greening" of industry, botanical pharmaceuticals, international business and much, much more.

I encourage you to look further at URI. I know you'll like what you see.

Robert L. Carothers
President