SECCM Labs Celebrates Completion
RWU honored the completion of the SECCM Labs building, now open for classes, with an Open House.
Parents & Families
Welcome to the Roger Williams University Family!
The Office of Student & Family Assistance focuses on developing lasting relationships that begin at acceptance and extend throughout your college experience. We are dedicated to supporting the overall academic success and well-being of our students.
It's a great day to be a Hawk!
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A Guide for Students and Families
Renee Vachon Danho, RWU’s first-ever director of student and family assistance, helps empower students with the confidence to succeed as independent adult learners. Additionally, students and families in distress can seek the information they need to effectively navigate crisis situations, including medical leave of absence. Renee can be reached at 401-254-3009 or rdanho@rwu.edu.
Current Families
Get the information you need to best support your current RWU student whether they are in their first year or their last.
Prospective Families
Get useful information on RWU admission requirements, programs, majors, and other information to help your student decide on RWU. Also learn about visiting campus, parking on campus, and taking full advantage of your visit to our community.
Student & Family Events
Orientation, Convocation, Commencement, Homecoming, and Family Weekend are wonderful times when families can get better acquainted with the Roger Williams campus and Bristol community.
Parent & Family Association
The Parent & Family Association invites parents to serve as ambassadors for RWU in the following areas: Admission, Advancement, Career Services, and Student Life.
Recent News
RWU Chemistry Students Catalyze Science Education
The Roger Williams University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (SA-ACS) chapter was recognized with an Outstanding Award for their work to deepen community scientific literacy.
President Miaoulis' Holiday Video Message
“It’s amazing how fast the semester went by. It was a terrific semester,” RWU President Ioannis Miaoulis recollects, as the University quiets and students leave for break. “I want to thank all of you for welcoming me, Heidi and Fletcher, and making us feel right at home.”
Faculty and Staff: How to Add an Event to the University Events Calendar
Click to OpenAs of April 8, the University Events Calendar has been merged with the calendar from the university's 25Live room reservation system. Now, when you reserve a space for an event on campus, it will be added to the University Events Calendar. You'll no longer have to submit the same information in two separate systems.
When reserving a space through 25Live, please write a clear event title so that anyone viewing your event on the calendar will easily understand what it is. We also ask that you add an event description, including any necessary information about cost, registration and whether it is open to students, faculty, staff or the general public. If your submission does not have a clear event title or it is lacking an event description, we may ask for more information before approving your event.
If you have any questions about how to use 25Live, please contact Deb Burgo at dburgo@rwu.edu.
Announcing the 20th Annual Professor John Howard Birss, Jr. Memorial Program
Click to Open- Exhibition - Celebrating 20 Years of of Birss Programming, this years exhibition, “Stephen Crane & The Red Badge of Courage” will have its opening celebration on February 6, 2020 at 4:30 in the University Library. The exhibition will run through March 31, 2020.
- Keynote Speaker - The Birss keynote will be delivered by Christopher Benfey on March 5, 2020 @ 4:30 in the Mary Tefft White Center. Christopher Benfey is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author of five highly regarded books about the American Gilded Age including The Double Life of Stephen Crane (1992) and A Summer of Hummingbirds, which won both the 2009 Christian Gauss Award of Phi Beta Kappa and the Ambassador Book Award. His most recent book, If: The Untold Story of Kipling’s American Years, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Benfey is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New York Times Sunday Book Review. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2013, he won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is given to a writer whose work merits recognition for the quality of its prose style.
- Rogers Free Library Birss Events:
- Adult Book Club Discussion: February 26, 2020 (3 PM and 7 PM)
- Public Writing Workshop involving elements of Crane in “Found Poetry”: February 27, 2020 (TIME TBD)