{"id":71312,"date":"2002-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-providence-campus-student-named-to-board-of-governors\/"},"modified":"2002-02-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-providence-campus-student-named-to-board-of-governors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2002\/02\/uri-providence-campus-student-named-to-board-of-governors\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Providence Campus student named to Board of Governors"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPROVIDENCE, R.I. — February 22, 2002 — Gov. Lincoln Almond has appointed Alison DiPetrillo of Coventry the student representative to the Board of Governors for Higher Education. Every two years, the selection of a student representative alternates among Rhode Island\u2019s three public schools: 溏心vlog免费B站, the Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. This year was 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers\u2019 turn to make a recommendation to the governor. The appointment is subject to the advice and consent of the Senate. <\/p>\n

\t“We went through a process of recruiting candidates and evaluating the perspective and experience each brought to this important role,” said 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers. “Allison impressed me with the breadth of her understanding of issues in higher education today and the experience she had as a student, a parent of students and a community leader. Im very pleased that she is willing to serve and that the Governor has appointed her.” <\/p>\n

DiPetrillo, a 44-year-old student at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education in Providence and mother of three sons, smiles at being called a non-traditional student. “I believe there are issues that all students share in common\u2026parking and education costs for example,” she says. “My 20-year-old son, Derek, is a student at the University\u2019s Kingston campus. My niece is enrolled at RIC. My nephew and my son\u2019s girlfriend plan to attend CCRI in the fall. <\/p>\n

\t“Being a representative to the board is a great opportunity to build bridges with students at all three schools, to listen to their concerns, and to advocate for them.” the 溏心vlog免费B站 student said. <\/p>\n

\tDiPetrillo plans to set up appointments as soon as possible with student leaders at all three schools. She will also set up a special website and e-mail address so that all students will have quick and easy access to her. She also will make her direct campus telephone number available. <\/p>\n

\tDiPetrillo was given “two telephone books” of information about the BOG and its guidelines and admits she has a lot to learn. “I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll be listening in the beginning,” she says. <\/p>\n

A graduate of the former culinary certificate program at Rhode Island School of Design, DiPetrillo operated the Golden Bakeries in Coventry with her husband, Gary, for four years until large retail grocers flattened the homemade business. <\/p>\n

Community involvement is as natural to DiPetrillo as baking a cake. She\u2019s a past president, vice president, treasurer and corresponding secretary of the Blackrock PTA, a cub scout leader for Pack 17 Blackrock for eight years, a math tutor, and a parent library assistant for six years, all in Coventry. She also served on a town-wide “Technology R&D for the Future of Coventry Schools” committee. <\/p>\n

\tDiPetrillo returned to school, realizing that without educational credentials she was constantly being pigeonholed solely as a baker. She chose 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus on the advice of her next -door neighbor, Vince Petronio who manages the Information and Instructional Technology Services at the college and also teaches communications. <\/p>\n

“I jumped right into college life,” says the full-time student who majors in communications studies and minors in anthropology. She became active in the college\u2019s Student Government Board, becoming its president last spring. The 12-member student organization has been active, pushing for deferred book payments, buses, and raising $1,000 in a raffle for the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. <\/p>\n

She became a computer tutor in the college\u2019s Academic Skills Center and recently began working with students with disabilities. Soon she was advocating for their needs and acting as liaison with 溏心vlog免费B站 professors whom she found ready to listen and willing to help. The new BOG student representative has found the work so rewarding that she\u2019s thinking of a career that centers on disability advocacy. <\/p>\n

For Information:Jan Wenzel, 874-2116\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — February 22, 2002 — Gov. Lincoln Almond has appointed Alison DiPetrillo of Coventry the student representative to the Board of Governors for Higher Education. Every two years, the selection of a student representative alternates among Rhode Island\u2019s three public schools: 溏心vlog免费B站, the Community College of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}