Diversity Awards
URI’s 2012 Diversity Awards winners were honored at the Diversity Awards Banquet held in the Memorial Union Ballroom on April 10. The 2012 Diversity Award for Lifetime Achievement was presented to John Ramos, M.P.A. ’87, (right with President Dooley), a former director of minority affairs at URI. As superintendent of the Bridgeport Public School District from 2005 to 2011, Ramos introduced data-based teaching that helped Bridgeport students register noteworthy educational gains.