KINGSTON, R.I. — Aug. 27, 2024 — With the first day of classes just around the corner, the äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ will welcome more than 3,000 first-year students and their families to its Kingston Campus, beginning Friday, Aug. 30, to open the 2024-25 academic year.
äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ President Marc Parlange and Mary Parlange, Provost Barbara Wolfe, Vice President for Student Affairs Ellen Reynolds, Assistant Vice President for Housing and Residential Life Tom Cooley, and hundreds of äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ staff, faculty members and student volunteers will welcome new and returning students to campus throughout the weekend and assist them as they move into their new, on-campus residences.
Welcome activities will continue through Labor Day weekend with fall classes set to begin Wednesday, Sept. 4. The academic year also kicks off with a full slate of academic, athletic and cultural events, including RhodyFest on Sept. 1.
Interest in the state’s flagship research university reached an all-time high this year. äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ received a record 26,900 first-year undergraduate applications for the fall 2024 semester, as well as a record number of applications to its graduate programs. First-year students will join more than 500 transfer students, more than 2,000 graduate students, and thousands of returning äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ students, to comprise a student body of more than 17,000 when classes begin.
äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ 5,500 students will live in 26 Kingston Campus residence halls as part of 14 living and learning communities. More than 600 students will live in more than a dozen Greek Life houses, while about 100 more will reside in the Grandin International Engineering, Texas Instruments, and Talent Development Achievement houses.
WHO: President Marc Parlange, Mary Parlange, Provost Barbara Wolfe, Vice President for Student Affairs Ellen Reynolds, Assistant Vice President for Housing and Residential Life Tom Cooley, hundreds of äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ faculty and staff, new and returning äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ students and their families
WHAT: Fall Move-In Weekend
WHEN: President Parlange will greet new students, Friday, Aug. 30, from 9:15-10:30 a.m. Move-in weekend will begin Friday, Aug. 30, for first-year and transfer students, continuing into Saturday, Aug. 31. Upperclass students will move in Sunday, Sept. 1, and Monday, Sept. 2.
WHERE: äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBվ’s student residential neighborhoods along Butterfield Road. President Parlange and other äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ officials will start their Friday morning at 9:15 a.m. at Hillside Hall, 140 Campus Ave.
MEDIA NOTE: President Parlange and other äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ staff members will be available to the media on Friday, Aug. 30, from 9:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., during new-student move-in. To make coverage and parking arrangements, please contact Dawn Bergantino at (401) 874-4147, cell: 202-270-3211, email: dawn_bergantino@uri.edu; or Tony LaRoche: 401-874-4894, cell: 401-837-8275, email: anthony_laroche@uri.edu.