  {"id":107014,"date":"2026-02-19T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/?p=107014"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:59:29","slug":"revised-procurement-regulations-and-policy-on-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2026\/02\/revised-procurement-regulations-and-policy-on-sexual-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised Procurement Regulations and Policy on Sexual Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">911±¬ΑΟ Board of Trustees Approves Revisions to Procurement Regulations and Policy on Sexual Misconduct<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Feb. 19, 2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees has revised the <em>Procurement Regulations <\/em>(R-002) and the <em>Policy on Sexual Misconduct<\/em> (01.001.4) effective February 13, 2026.<br>\u00a0<br><strong><em>Board of Trustees Procurement Regulations<\/em> (R-002)<\/strong><br>The purpose of these revised regulations is to implement the Board\u2019s responsibilities under RIGL \u00a7 16-32-2(e) to make rules and regulations pursuant to the State Purchases Act and to simplify, clarify, and continuously modernize the University\u2019s Procurement system.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=procurement%20regulations\">https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=procurement%20regulations<\/a><br>\u00a0<br><strong><em>Policy on Sexual Misconduct<\/em> (01.001.4)<\/strong><br>The purpose of this revised policy is to eliminate, prevent, and address conduct that constitutes Sexual Misconduct at the University. The policy describes prohibited conduct, sets standards by which the University will manage allegations regarding Sexual Misconduct, and defines roles and responsibilities for all parties involved.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=sexual%20misconduct\">https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/find\/?_sf_s=sexual%20misconduct<\/a><br><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br><strong><em>All University Administrative Policies can be found at <\/em><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/\"><strong><em>https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/policies\/<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>911±¬ΑΟ Board of Trustees Approves Revisions to Procurement Regulations and Policy on Sexual Misconduct Feb. 19, 2026 The University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees has revised the Procurement Regulations (R-002) and the Policy on Sexual Misconduct (01.001.4) effective February 13, 2026.\u00a0Board of Trustees Procurement Regulations (R-002)The purpose of these revised regulations is to implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[1857,1858,1856],"class_list":["post-107014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-911±¬ΑΟ-message","tag-audience-faculty","tag-audience-staff","tag-audience-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107015,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107014\/revisions\/107015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}