WARWICK, R.I. — Rhode Island Commissioner of Postsecondary Education Jim Purcell is leaving the state to take a job as executive director of the Alabama Commission on Higher Education. Purcell has was named commissioner of postsecondary education in June 2014."Rhode Island has been fortunate to have Commissioner Purcell as the first Commissioner of Postsecondary Education after the Council was established in 2014," said Bill Foulkes, chairman of the Council on [...]