Students and Alumni
Students enrolled in PTC are active and valuable contributors to RIT and the Rochester community's life. They write for Reporter (the weekly magazine) and for Liberal Smarts (the twice-a-year newsletter from the College of Liberal Arts); they are managers and disk jockeys at WITR-FM; PTC students are residence hall advisors and representatives to and leaders of Student Government and other campus organizations; they are participants in the Liberal Arts Research Conference, contestants (and, frequently, winners) in the Institute Public Speaking Contest, and more.
PTC students have held Co-ops at such organizations as Greenpeace, Bausch & Lomb, the Memorial Art Gallery, Passero Associates, Clear Channel Communications, Lenel Systems, Eastman Kodak, Lupton Associates, Xerox, Navistream Corp., Rochester City School District, Colorado Tourism Bureau, West Publishing, RIT University News and the Olympic Regional Development Authority. Their Co-op responsibilities include personnel coordinator, technical writer, sports information director, corporate communications expert, documentation specialist, marketing coordinator, copy editor, graphic designer, customized curriculum developer, and technical support specialist.
The some 400 PTC alumni can be found in places all around the globe. They hold professional positions in both the for-profit and the not-for-profit sectors. Among the firms where PTC graduates are working are J. Walter Thompson, Cox Radio, Paychex, Monroe County (NY) Legislature, Polaris Consulting, Blue Cross, Merck, Sentry, SAS Institute, Gannett Corp., Xerox, Wegmans, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives. They are practicing attorneys, marketing and public relations experts, webmasters, magazine managers, technical writers, corporate training educators, software specialists and systems managers, media buyers, and college professors. A substantial number of PTC alumni have earned graduate degrees - in communication as well as other academic disciplines.
