Newsletter April 2020

Status: Employed. HEOP grads already have jobs

One person is headed to Zambia, Africa. Another is staying put in Rochester.

They may be going in different directions but both are sharing the relief of knowing they have a job when they graduate.

More than a half dozen Rochester Institute of Technology students in the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) have already accepted positions with titles ranging from Event Planner to Imaging Science Engineer.

Imagine high school students interested in the Health Sciences getting the opportunity to dissect the hand of a human cadaver.

Ever played the video game Monster Doctor? High school students helped in the creation of that too.

Another group used the camera lens to explore the issue of sports injuries in an Introduction to Photojournalism class. 

This has been a busy year for members of Men of Color, Honor and Ambition (MOCHA).

The program works to empower students.

This year’s Cohort 7 (M7) included 19 men, many of them RIT seniors.

David Benitez, Associate Director Community Initiatives says it was busy but also a successful year.

More than a dozen members of Women of Color, Honor and Ambition (WOCHA) took part in Alternative Spring Break programming that took some from West Virginia to New Orleans, Louisiana.  Thirteen students spent their time away from the RIT campus getting some hands on learning through a variety of service projects. They learned about critical challenges in the communities they visited and made connections working with local leaders.  Take a look at the programs listed below:

This is National Deaf History Month. It is celebrated from March 13 through April 15 since first introduced by the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) in 1997.

The goal is to highlight the many achievements and contributions of people who are deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Dear RIT community,