Communications to RIT Community

As students return for the start of spring semester, RIT is prepared for students who need to be quarantined or isolated because of COVID-19.

RIT Facilities Management Services will continue to provide heightened cleaning services in academic buildings and residence halls this spring semester to help combat the spread of coronavirus.

Reimagining the Frank Ritter Ice Arena as a student center during the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed a typically chilly building into a place where students can drop in between classes and after hours to study, eat, and relax.

Student Government President Shine DeHarder, a fourth-year biomedical sciences major from Jamestown, N.Y., welcomes students back to a new semester.

Construction is picking up in the center of campus, and RIT Libraries is making room for renovations that will reconfigure its space and connect it to the future Innovative Maker and Learning Complex. A selection of books will be moved to RIT Libraries’ Offsite Collections.

RIT students returning to campus for spring semester can expect frequent testing for COVID-19 as part of the university’s overall strategy for preventing the spread of the coronavirus.

Members of RIT Ambulance this academic year have continued to answer 911 calls on the RIT campus all while taking additional precautions to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. They responded to simple traumas, such as patients falling off a bike, falling out of bed, hitting their head or an allergic reaction. They also transported students to quarantine locations.

More than a dozen RIT administrators and staff members have met regularly to discuss ways to help keep campus open as safely as possible as more is learned about COVID-19. To provide a student perspective, Griffin Warntz is serving on RIT’s Spring Planning Task Force.