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Ryan donates 15 million to create URI Research Institute

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The gift is the largest in the university’s history. Ryan, whose personal donations to URI now total nearly $21 million, said he wanted to make a “transformative” gift.

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Maybe we should rename URI "Ryan University" ....
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Love this line:

Such a notable gift can have a ripple effect, spurring other donations, burnishing the university’s reputation, attracting higher-caliber students and faculty, and perhaps even deepening legislators’ appreciation for the university, which gets only 8 percent of its revenue from the state. “It can do a lot of things that elevate the university’s well-being,” Dooley said.
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This is boss. Go Ryan.
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Better watch out. It could have the opposite effect. In RI, legislators might think they can cut support even further since the university got a large gift.
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RF1, at first I chuckled at your post above. Moments later, I feared that you are correct. The General Assembly is one of the most ignorant groups with regard to the value of higher education.
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ATP, unless it concerns PC or even RIC.

Such a clueless bunch never existed. Well, maybe Congress.

Actually, let them cut it down to nothing, and make the university private. Long term, would be better off.
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Tom Ryan has been a busy man as of late. His gift to URI was not his only recent big financial outlay. He just spent 3.3 million on a 4.4 acre property off Ocean Road with 300 feet of ocean frontage. My guess is that even more could be spent rehabbing or replacing the current house on the site.



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Not trying to tell Mr. Ryan his business, but if I'm paying that much for a house with "ocean frontage" I want some beach, or at least a dock. With those rocks there the ocean frontage is only useful to look at.
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TruePoint wrote:Not trying to tell Mr. Ryan his business, but if I'm paying that much for a house with "ocean frontage" I want some beach, or at least a dock. With those rocks there the ocean frontage is only useful to look at.
But if there actually is ocean frontage, then you're subject to public access laws.
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So I guess this is the real Ryan Center!
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