The Dean of Students Office offers a wide variety of services designed to empower our students and facilitate their involvement in the university’s decision making process.
Our Units
The Dean of Students Office is made of many individual units, which each specialize in supporting students in specific areas.
University of Rhode Island Land Acknowledgment
The University of Rhode Island occupies the traditional stomping ground of the Narragansett Nation and the Niantic People. We honor and respect the enduring and continuing relationship between the Indigenous people and this land by teaching and learning more about their history and present-day communities, and by becoming stewards of the land we, too, inhabit.
Our Stories
DAI staff is 2025 Inclusive Excellence Awardee
DAI staff is 2025 Inclusive Excellence Awardee Nina Schiarizzi-Tobin was named the 2025 Staff/Administrative Excellence Awardee at the University of Rhode Island’s Inclusive Excellence Awards, honoring members of the URI community who were nominated and selected for demonstrating and promoting inclusion in community leadership, academic excellence, and service at the University. Staff/Administrative Excellence Award: Nina […]
URI administrator earns dissertation of the year award
Kristin Ridge, URI’s Associate Dean of Students, was recently recognized for her dissertation on the treatment of first-generation students in the student conduct system by the Association of Student Conduct Administration (ASCA).