uri cornerstones challenge

Overview: Our second Rhody Ram Scholarship contest for admitted students focuses on our community values and principles – known as URI Cornerstones.

The University of Rhode Island is a principled community guided by values. As members of this community, we subscribe to the following principles, our URI Cornerstones, which form the foundation of our endeavors.

1. We pursue knowledge with honesty, integrity and courage.
2. We promote independent choice, intellectual curiosity, open-mindedness and free expression.
3. We respect the rights and dignity of each individual and group. We reject prejudice and intolerance, and we work to understand differences.
4. We accept personal responsibility for our actions and their consequences.
5. We actively cooperate to improve the University, the state of Rhode Island, and the global community beyond our borders.
6. We strive to be a community where the environment and property are treated respectfully.
7. We seek to create and maintain an environment conducive to personal health and wellness.
8. We work to develop skills which promote lifelong learning, leadership and service.

Contest: We invite you to Think Big! In 500 words or fewer:

• Identify one URI Cornerstone principle that you believe is the greatest challenge for you and your classmates to potentially achieve, wrestle with, and understand.
• Explain why this principle is a challenge (and perhaps opportunity) for your generation.
• State how you would introduce this principle to your fellow URI classmates in an engaging way.

The rules are simple:

• You must be admitted to URI as a first-year student for the Fall 2018.
• You may submit one entry for each scholarship contest. See our helpful Q&A section for more details.
• Your submission must be 500 words or fewer.
  
• Winners who enroll at URI will receive a one-time $500 scholarship which will be applied to their Fall 2018 tuition bill.
• And of course, winners must agree to let us share their brilliant ideas with the URI community!
• Submission deadline is 12:00pm on Monday, March 19th