The University of Rhode Island may soon see some major changes in the upcoming years after the approval of two proposals by the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education, at Rhode Island College last night...The second passed proposal will make Ranger Hall the house of a School of Communication at URI, which will encompass departments from communications to film media...

..."It's a chance to build a real school of distinction," [President Robert L.] Carothers said.

The school will encompass the College Writing Program, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Department of Journalism, Department of Communication and the program in Film Media...

...Carothers alluded to a donor "waiting in the wings" for the School of Communications after it is established. This would be necessary, as the proposed school would increase the enrollment of URI by an estimated 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, said Warner in the memorandum.