{"id":3129,"date":"2026-10-07T15:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/?page_id=3129"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T19:13:13","slug":"sep2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/sotu\/sep2025\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the University, September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-video-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-video  \"><div class=\"poster\" id=\"UChQ5cwW1OA\" data-video=\"UChQ5cwW1OA\" data-platform=\"youtube\" data-showinfo=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/UChQ5cwW1OA\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:60%\">\n<p class=\"type-intro wp-block-paragraph\">University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange delivered his annual State of the University Address on Friday, September 19, 2025 in Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt URI, our greatest strength has always been our people\u2014the faculty, staff and students who make discovery possible and who bring our mission to life,\u201d said Parlange. He noted several successes the University achieved in the past year, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/02\/university-of-rhode-island-achieves-prestigious-carnegie-r1-status-ascends-to-top-tier-of-u-s-research-universities\/\">R1 designation<\/a>, multi-million dollar gifts and research awards, and athletic victories, and reflected on \u201cwhy we are here, what unites us as a community, and where we are headed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:40%\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2025\/09\/state-of-the-university-address-reflects-on-our-why-looks-to-uris-future\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2061\/sotu-25-parlange.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Recap and photos<\/h2><p>Read highlights from the September 2025 State of the University address and see the event in pictures.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Press release<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Rhode Island President Marc Parlange delivered his annual State of the University Address on Friday, September 19, 2025 in Edwards Hall on the Kingston Campus. \u201cAt URI, our greatest strength has always been our people\u2014the faculty, staff and students who make discovery possible and who bring our mission to life,\u201d said Parlange. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":0,"parent":2737,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3129","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3129\/revisions\/3133"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/president\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}