In honor of Earth Week (April 22-26), we decided to focus this post on sustainability and share some simple ways that you can make a difference on campus and at home.  RIT has made a big commitment to achieve carbon neutrality by 2030, but what does that really mean to each of us?

If you want to meet people on campus and be involved in campus progress, then now is the time to self- nominate or nominate a colleague for one of the open seats on Staff Council for the upcoming year. 

->> Nominations are open now and close Friday, 4/12 and Elections will be early May

->> Terms begin at June 6th meeting; end May 31, 2015

BELOW ARE THE FOLLOWING BLOCKS AND THEIR AND OPEN SEATS FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR:

Would it help if you could learn some signs to communicate more easily with our deaf and hard of hearing students and colleagues?  Did you know that the entire RIT community has access to an ASL/English sign language video dictionary?

As you are aware, in a memo dated October 30, 2012, President Destler charged the individual governance groups with reviewing and providing feedback related to the reports of the Cost Containment and Productivity teams.  In an effort to provide thorough feedback to the President, Staff Council reached out to staff on campus in several ways, which included:

By now you have no doubt heard about the Cost Containment reports focused on procurement activities, information technology infrastructure, revenue generation and cost cutting, and employee benefits.  The complete reports from these committees, as well as President Destler’s cover letter, are available at http://www.rit.edu/president/productivity.html (DCE login required).