University of Rhode Island - Renaissance / Grist Yearbook (Kingston, RI)

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The Kingston Campus: the center of activity The Kingston Campus is the main center of activity at URL All the student dormitories are located here, and most of the classes are taught in the buildings surrounding the Quad. The President has his home here, and the highest administrators work out of the Administration Building and the Memorial Union. Here is where students can find counseling, activities, entertainment, companionship, and naturally an education. The ivy covered buildings that line the Quadrangle are the original core of URI, dating from the times when it was just a school of agriculture. Over the past century, URI has grown into a large bustling university, recognized for its outstanding engineering and business programs, as well as its schools of nursing and oceanography. Today’s students can barely recognize old pictures of URI. Many new buildings have changed the skyline, the water tower is gone, and the fields surrounding the old school have been ploughed under and built on. But as URI grows the students grow with it, and pursue new roads of education, venturing forth to brave the world after graduating, but always taking a part of URI with them. 4