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Roger Williams University. / 41.64944°N 71.26056°W / 41.64944; -71.26056. Roger Williams University ( RWU) is a private university in Bristol, Rhode Island. Founded in 1956, it was named for theologian and Rhode Island cofounder Roger Williams. The school enrolls over 5,000 students and employs over 480 academic staff.
Roger Williams University was a historically black college in Nashville, Tennessee. It was founded in 1866 as the Nashville Normal and Theological Institute by the American Baptist denomination, which established numerous schools and colleges in the South. Renamed for Roger Williams, the founder of the First Baptist Church in America, it became ...
Roger Williams University School of Law is the law school of Roger Williams University, a private university in Bristol, Rhode Island. It is the only law school in Rhode Island. It was the first graduate degree program established by the university, then Roger Williams College, in 1993. The School of Law has been accredited by the American Bar ...
Roger Williams ( c.1603 – March 1683) [1] was an English-born New England Puritan minister, theologian, and author who founded Providence Plantations, which became the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and later the State of Rhode Island. He was a staunch advocate for religious freedom, separation of church and state, and fair ...
Luce Hall at Naval War College. The Ruane Center at Providence College. The Student Union at Rhode Island College. The Waterman Building at the Rhode Island School of Design. The Commons at Roger Williams University. The gates of Salve Regina University. East Hall and Washburn Hall at the University of Rhode Island.
From 2002 to 2012, under the leadership of then president Roger Williams, the college's enrollment and physical plant expanded rapidly to encompass over 500 students. In 2007 the college received a significant gift of over 2,000 rare photographic books from the collector and philanthropist John Teti.
The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded by Roger Williams. It was an English colony from 1636 until 1707, and then a colony of Great Britain until the American Revolution in 1776, when it became the ...
1985 – Roger Williams College (now Roger Williams University) joined the CCC in the 1985–86 academic year. 1986 – The CCC was granted membership within the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III ranks in the 1986–87 academic year.