News by Topic: Diversity

RIT is open to all people regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, nationality, ability, and culture, and actively supports the inclusion of all communities. Through accessible technologies and academic programs, research on social issues, and celebrations of individuals from all backgrounds, RIT hopes to be the model for a brighter future for all people.

  • February 23, 2017

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    RIT hosts Step Afrika! dancers

    Ranked as one of the top African-American dance companies in the country, Step Afrika! will perform at 7 p.m. March 8 in the university’s Ingle Auditorium.

  • February 22, 2017

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    Global Payments exec headlines Power Your Potential

    Jane Elliott will be discussing “What is your personal Big Hairy Audacious Goal” as Saunders College of Business at Rochester Institute of Technology hosts the eighth annual Power Your Potential women’s leadership event on March 3.

  • February 7, 2017

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    RIT’s Phyllis Wade to perform at Smithsonian

    Phyllis Wade, a student support specialist, will help commemorate Black History Month by performing “Signal Songs of the Underground Railroad” to students visiting the Discovery Theater at the Smithsonian’s S. Dillon Ripley Center in Washington, D.C.

  • February 3, 2017

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    Three named international education chairs

    Saunders College of Business Professor Robert Barbato, Associate Professor Michael Palanski and Associate Professor Zhi Tang were named the Paul and Francena Miller Chairs in International Education for the 2017-2018 academic year.

  • January 30, 2017

    Protecting interests of international community

    U.S. President Donald Trump issued several executive orders pertaining to immigration on Friday. These orders directly and immediately impact members of the RIT community. Campus leadership is reviewing the details of the order and is responding to help students and faculty in need.

  • January 27, 2017

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    RIT celebrates King’s legacy

    The Expressions of King’s Legacy celebration, now in its 35th year, featured the Fisk Jubilee Singers, District of Columbia Circuit Court Judge Robert Wilkins and CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield. Each shared the ties that bound them, wrapped in the influence of Martin Luther King Jr.

  • January 19, 2017

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    Dyer Arts Center opens 2017 with three exhibits

    The Dyer Arts Center hosts “(Re)Invention,” a traveling exhibition from the Kennedy Center; an exhibit with works from the personal collections of faculty artists from RIT/NTID’s Visual Communication Studies Department; and an exhibit on “Shakespeare in American Deaf History.”

  • January 17, 2017

    Professor seeks to improve Ph.D. completion rates

    Casey Miller, associate professor and director of RIT’s materials science and engineering graduate program, won funding from the National Science Foundation to develop an inclusive approach to physics graduate education admission and retention of traditionally underrepresented U.S. citizens.

  • December 14, 2016

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    Fisk Jubilee Singers to perform at RIT

    The Fisk Jubilee Singers, a renowned ensemble based at Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., will be the featured performer at the 2017 Expressions of King’s Legacy on Jan. 26.

  • November 21, 2016

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    Program helps Native American scholars thrive

    The Future Stewards Program is the reason why RIT is recognized as one of the top schools in the country for Native American students. Through the program, Native scholars are recruited to RIT, supported while on campus and encouraged to be active in the future of their tribal communities.

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