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With eight highly regarded and fast-growing colleges and 298 undergraduate, master's and Ph.D. programs, RIT is constantly striving to meet the needs of a diverse and dynamic student body. And the unique focus of each RIT College creates likewise unique funding priorities ranging from facilities and laboratory renovations to endowed faculty positions as well as a critical need for scholarship funds to aid deserving students in achieving their educational dreams. For detailed information on funding needs for the program of your choice, click on a selection below:
For detailed information on our colleges, visit: College Programs or Co-op Program.
COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Gifts directed to this College are used to respond to its expanding needs, which include student scholarships, funding faculty training and research, and especially completing the labs and classrooms in the college’s new Electronic Technology building, which will support many departments and include a center for telecommunications education, research and scholarship. You may also support one of the specific programs listed below.
Contact: Paul Harris
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Center for Multidisciplinary Studies
This Center continues to grow and attract more students. Currently, we have over 700 students. They come to CMS from all over the world to begin or continue their education in one of our 30 degree, diploma or certificate programs. Gifts made directly to the CENTER FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES general fund will help us provide student aid, but they also allow us to create new and innovative academic programs and continue expanding online courses. Gifts to our CMS MERIT SCHOLARSHIP FUND will assist students who have demonstrated academic excellence. This year, the Center will make its first award of the Henry & Pinny Cooke Scholarship, which is now a fully endowed scholarship fund.
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Civil Engineering Technology, Environmental Management & Safety
A gift to the CETEMS DEPARTMENT general fund will help us continue to provide book scholarships, alleviating some financial stress for our students. It also will allow us to provide equipment for student projects and continue to support important student clubs such as ASCE, concrete canoe, steel bridge and SEAL. This year, the fund will also help us purchase equipment and fixtures for our new engineering technology building. In addition, your support will help us develop a new structural steel teaching sculpture to be located at the front of the new building. This sculpture will be used in the elementary structures and structural steel design courses. There are currently more than 130 such sculptures at universities across the nation. Also, Scholarship funding is critical to the success of our students. Today, tuition can be one of the biggest
obstacles to a college education. A gift to the PATRICK DONOVAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND or the IAN RODGERS MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND allows us to reach out to deserving students.
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Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering Technology
Our department's most important priority for your gifts is to assist students through the ECTET Alumni Book Scholarships, which are awarded from our ECTET DEPARTMENT general fund. These $300 to $500 awards go to students with a GPA of 3.5 or better, and are used to purchase books or laboratory kits at the RIT Campus Connections bookstore. Each year, up to 50 students receive these scholarships, which enhance academic excellence and alleviate some of the financial stress, motivating students to continue to work hard. If you are interested, you can view a photo of recent recipients and access some sample thank-you letters. Gifts to our general fund also help us upgrade labs and facilities for all our outstanding programs.
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School of Hospitality and Service Management
Currently, the School of Hospitality and Service Management is completing a full-scale renovation of its facilities, which now include welcoming and comfortable gathering places, a state-of-the-art media center, a customer-friendly service area and special showcase for Alumni Awardees, the Alumni Society and the International Advisory Board. Phase I of this project is completed and Phase II has begun. With your support, we will raise the $250,000 needed to advance our School, its reputation, its future alumni, and ultimately the value of every SHSM degree. Your gift to the SHSM FOURTH FLOOR RENOVATION FUND will help us achieve our goal. Visit our renovation progress page to find out where we are to date.
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Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Many times, it is only because of your support of the MMET DEPARTMENT general fund that we can make opportunities available to our students. This Fund is used to support student scholarships and student projects that give our students the hands-on experience they need and enjoy. We will once again use this fund to send students to special technical events and support their independent study projects. The Fund also helps us support student club branches of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-conditioning Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Society of Plastic Engineers, and the Model Railroad Club. We are also grateful for those who choose to support our MMET FACULTY, STAFF
AND ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND which is distributed to sophomores. This is a critical year for our students, as they face increased academic demands but are not yet eligible for co-op positions. Many must work part-time to help finance their education, and this scholarship fund allows them to reduce work hours so they can concentrate on academic performance.
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Packaging Science Program
Gifts to the PACKAGING SCIENCE general fund make it possible for our students to travel to professional conferences and events such as IoPP's sponsored trips/tours and Pack Expo, where our students are consistent winners in the design challenge. This Fund also helps us upgrade equipment in our materials/container labs. Last year we purchased an induction sealer, laminator, porosity tester and much more. This year we will again use this fund to purchase equipment and materials. We are also very grateful to those who continue to support our PACKAGING SCIENCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND. Many of our students require financial assistance to complete their education, and your generous gifts are truly helping us prepare the future leaders of our industry.
GIFTS-IN-KIND continue to provide essential teaching and research tools, and create valuable links between industry and our future packaging professionals.
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E. PHILIP SAUNDERS COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Last year, this dynamic and fast-growing college was named after E. Philip Saunders, entrepreneur and founder of TravelCenters of America Inc. Mr. Saunders provided wonderful resources for scholarships, faculty expansion, and an endowment for future initiatives. Just recently, we completed a renovation to the entry way of the Max Lowenthal Building, the second stage of our four-stage improvement process. You can help us turn our exciting plans into reality by supporting our SAUNDERS COLLEGE BUILDING FUND. If you are more interested in helping us address current needs of our students and programs, you can choose to support our SAUNDERS COLLEGE general fund. And we are grateful for all who continue to support one of our three Saunders College of
Business scholarship funds: the ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP, the WOMEN'S NETWORK ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP and the RECENT ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP.
Contact: Mark Boylan
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GOLISANO COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SCIENCES
Our grateful thanks goes out to all the alumni, parents and friends who provide annual support to Golisano College. You are true partners in our mission to prepare our students for successful careers. Our College now has eight undergraduate degree programs as well as eight graduate degrees. We’re also very proud of our new Ph.D. program in Computing and Information Sciences, which allows our scholars to use a balance of theory and practice to discover solutions to real-world problems. When you make a gift to our GOLISANO DEAN'S FUND, you are providing discretionary resources to address immediate student needs. As well, your gifts have helped this College set up a new Laboratory for Applied Computing in the Center for Advancing the Study of Cyberinfrastructure. This “virtual” center allows multidisciplinary team research that joins the
computing, scientific, and engineering disciplines with a goal of building a high-performance, networked system of distributed computing, storage, visualization capabilities, and sensors on an unprecedented scale. Gifts to the GOLISANO COLLEGE ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND are used to to support students across all our programs for today and into the future. Some of our supporters prefer to give directly to their "home" department. We now have four: COMPUTER SCIENCES, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING and NETWORKING, SECURITY & SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION. When you choose to support a department, you help us to assist our students with travel (they consistently present at conferences and competitions worldwide), help us underwrite student projects, address faculty development and fund student events.
Contact: Mark Gaul
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KATE GLEASON COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
At the KGCOE, we strive to provide a nurturing educational environment where students earn a highly marketable degree. Gifts to the KATE GLEASON COLLEGE general fund help provide scholarships, assist faculty projects, improve classrooms and upgrade equipment. Gifts to the KGCOE ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND are helping us build a sustainable scholarship assistance program for deserving students. We are also excited about our continued efforts to build up our WOMEN IN ENGINEERING PROGRAM. Your gift to will help our College continue to motivate young women to pursue engineering degrees. On September 7, 2007, we formally dedicated our new 38,000-square-foot addition to our current building, which will double the size of our Mechanical Engineering Machine Shop and provide much-needed space for senior projects, specialized labs, mentoring programs, student activities and offices. Thank you for helping us make this new addition possible!
Contact: Eileen Galinski
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COLLEGE OF IMAGING ARTS AND SCIENCES
Gifts directed to the College are used to respond to its most pressing needs, which may include student scholarships, upgrading facilities, purchasing equipment and funding faculty training and development. You may also choose support a specific school or program listed below.
Contact: Peter Gabak
American Crafts
Your continued interest and support of the School for American Crafts plays a critical role when it comes to awarding scholarships and keeping our studios alive with activity and ideas. Your annual gift to the SCHOOL FOR AMERICAN CRAFTS general fund provides us with the resources we need to offer an annual Alumni Scholarship Award. This honor goes to an outstanding graduating student in each of the four SAC disciplines (metal, wood, glass and clay) to help support and encourage them as they transition from the academic to the professional world. It is a scholarship that clearly reflects SAC's commitment to using support from alumni, parents and friends to benefit students. Your gifts to this Fund also help us provide an unsurpassed, intensive studio environment where personal expression and professionalism flourish.
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Art
The students and faculty of the School of Art thrive on the support of alumni, parents and friends. Your gifts to our FRIENDS OF THE SCHOOL OF ART general fund help us maintain our classrooms, which are designed for the specialized needs of each degree program, as well as our instructional studios, art production studios, and digital labs that feature the latest equipment, software and support devices. This fund also allows us to underwrite important learning opportunities such as field trips to galleries, exhibitions and artists' studios. As a Friend you will be informed about upcoming workshops and gallery shows, and invited to our annual "Studio Celebration" of graduate and undergraduate student artwork where you will meet students, faculty and other Friends.
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Design
RIT's School of Design continues to be a leader in design education. As recently as October 2006, in its first-ever survey of "Best Design Schools", Business Week named RIT among the top programs in North America, Europe and Asia. Your gift to the SCHOOL OF DESIGN general fund allows this great School to provide exceptional educational experiences, enhance our programs, add state-of-the-art technology and bring renowned speakers to campus to support our curriculum. In addition, annual gifts to the MASSIMO AND LELLA VIGNELLI CENTER FOR DESIGN STUDIES will allow us to move ahead with our plans to develop this 20,000 square-foot Center, a permanent and comprehensive home for the expansive archive of professional career accomplishments of this dynamic design duo. We are
also grateful to those of you who choose to support the SCHOOL OF DESIGN ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND, which provides assistance to our current students. Today, with stiff competition among design schools, scholarship resources are critical.
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Film and Animation
RIT's School of Film and Animation continues to be the most selective program at RIT, and our students continue to receive awards and recognition. Your gift to the SCHOOL OF FILM AND ANIMATION general fund goes directly to help our students by providing resources for emergency production grants, which help students complete their major projects. It also goes for finishing funds (festival, print and distribution costs) for students with great films who can't afford to get them out there. Visit our gallery to see samples of what our talented students produce.
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Photographic Arts and Sciences
Support of the SCHOOL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS AND SCIENCES general fund is helping us update facilities, such as renovating our old "wet chemistry" darkrooms into digital labs and maintaining and expanding our display areas. Most important, the resources you provide allow us to make emergency loans to students for supplies. Throughout the school year, your gifts also help make possible lectures featuring SPAS alumni and working photo professionals – a great opportunity for our students to hear about the real world. Some of you choose to help us out on our annual "Big Shot," which is a unique learning experience for RIT students, while others continue to support our scholarship programs, such as the SPAS ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND. We welcome your gift to any area or scholarship that means the most to you, including any of our six departments:
ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHY
BIOMEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS
FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY
IMAGING AND PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY
PHOTOJOURNALISM
VISUAL MEDIA
Thank you for your interest and support. You are helping this world renowned School maintain its leadership and making sure that our students receive an outstanding educational experience.
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Print Media
Alumni, parents, faculty/staff and friends who support the SCHOOL OF PRINT MEDIA general fund are increasing our ability to award scholarships, including some to attract talented freshmen to our program and some to support student research. This Fund is also used to update/replace equipment. With your support, we are also able to cover travel costs for students who attend professional meetings such as the TAGA competition, where our students continue to take top honors for their creative and well-executed projects. We are also very grateful for those who support the School of SCHOOL OF PRINT MEDIA ALUMNI SCHOLARSHIP FUND, which allows us to assist current students.
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LIBERAL ARTS
In the past seven years, this College has more than doubled in the number of degree programs we offer, currently eight undergraduate and four graduate degrees. With growing interest in our College, the need for scholarship funds is more critical than ever, and your support of our CLA ALUMNI AND FRIENDS ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP means many deserving Liberal Arts students - today and in the future - will be able to complete their RIT education. By choosing to support our COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS general fund, you help us provide student activities that enhance the quality of their education, including guest speaker series, lectures and concerts as well as degree-related research and independent study. This fund also helps with travel for study abroad or to professional conferences to present research. You also are providing funds that are used for faculty research and curriculum
development. An essential element of our educational philosophy is to provide in-depth research opportunities for our students. Your gift to our CLA INDEPENDENT STUDENT RESEARCH PROGRAM helps us provide professional opportunities for our students to develop and present their in-depth research projects to faculty, alumni, and peers at either our annual Conference for Undergraduate Research in Communication or our Liberal Arts Student Research Conference.
Contact: Mark Gaul
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SCIENCE
This College is still ranked by the National Science Foundation among the nation’s top universities for undergraduate education in science. Currently, we offer 17 undergraduate degree programs, nine graduate degree programs and two Ph.D.s – with a third in Astrophysics in the approval process! Our new Center for Bioscience Education and Technology is a hub of activity, housing some of our departments and providing space for new programs. As we attract more students, your support of our COLLEGE OF SCIENCE ALUMNI ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP means more than ever. Also, because one of our major goals is to incorporate a research component into all undergraduate and graduate programs, your support of the COLLEGE OF SCIENCE STUDENT RESEARCH FUND will help provide essential assistance for faculty-mentored student research projects. In concert with the technologically
relevant content of our courses, research provides our students with a career-oriented education that is second to none. By directly supporting the COLLEGE OF SCIENCE DEAN'S FUND, you will help us address our top priorities such as improving our laboratories and classrooms across all programs. In addition, you may wish to directly support your “home” department by making a gift to BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, CHEMISTRY, IMAGING SCIENCE, MEDICAL SCIENCES, PHYSICS or THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES. The funding you provide to these individual areas allows the departments to immediately address problems and opportunities for our students.
Contact: Mark Gaul
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Physics Faculty and Alumni Endowed Scholarship
This scholarship recognizes and rewards physics majors who have demonstrated exceptional academic performance, dedication and promise in research and/or leadership in academic service activities. The Fund was established by the Physics Department Faculty, who contributed the lead gift. They encourage alumni of the department to add their support to benefit the physicists of tomorrow.
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NATIONAL TECHNICAL INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF
NTID at RIT is the world’s first and largest technological college for students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. More than 1,250 NTID students study, share residence halls, and enjoy social life together with 14,000 hearing students on the RIT campus. Since 1968, support from alumni, parents, friends and corporate partners has helped this college provide our students with outstanding, state-of-the-art technical and professional education programs that prepare them to live and work in the mainstream of a rapidly changing global community and enhance their lifelong learning. As ever, scholarship support is a critical need. Your gifts to the NTID FOUNDATION ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND make a difference for more than 300 students annually. If you are an NTID alumnus/a, a gift directed to the NTID ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIP FUND will allow you to give back to NTID as you
support the next generation of NTID students. Also, all our students and faculty are thrilled with our new CSD Student Development Center and the adjacent quad, named in honor of NTID's founding director, Dr. Rober Frisina. The Robert F. Panara Theatre is still under renovation and you can be a part of NTID history and help us maintain this wonderful space by contributing to the PANARA THEATRE RENOVATION FUND. Every gift you make to NTID will go far toward continuing this College's great tradition of providing an education that leads to academic and life success for our deaf and hard-of-hearing students! Our NTID Web pages will help you learn more about NTID giving opportunities.
Contact: James Ebenhoch
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