FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Gita Brown, 401-456-8465, gbrown@ric.edu
Laura Hart, 401-456-8977, lhart@ric.edu
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Rhode Island College student Brian Flamand of West Greenwich, R.I., has been awarded a $1,000 R.I. Council on Economic Education Scholarship. This scholarship is given annually to an undergraduate student majoring in secondary education/social studies or secondary education/history who has demonstrated outstanding promise as a secondary school economics teacher. Typically in high schools, economics is taught in the social studies or history departments. Flamand’s focus is social studies.
Flamand is also vice president of the RIC Educators of Social Studies Club. He was recently inducted into Kappa Delta Pi, an international honor society in education that encourages high personal, professional and intellectual standards and recognizes outstanding contributions to education.
Flamand will begin student teaching in social studies in fall 2015.
Established in 1854, Rhode Island College serves approximately 9,000 graduate and undergraduate students through its five schools: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Feinstein School of Education and Human Development, the School of Social Work, the School of Management and the School of Nursing. For more information, visit www.ric.edu.
