News by Topic: Student Experience
RIT continually works to improve and enhance the university experience for our students. Through student clubs and organizations, unique classes and programs, a comprehensive wellness program, and university-led initiatives, students have plenty of opportunities to express themselves, make lifelong connections, and do extraordinary things.
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January 13, 2017
RIT to expand student anti-terrorism initiative
It’s Time: ExOut Extremism, an online initiative to combat violent extremism that started as a classroom assignment, has been awarded $149,000 from the Department of Homeland Security. -
January 11, 2017
RIT experiences ingenuity at CES
More than 170,000 tech enthusiasts gathered from around the globe to experience technology innovation at the 50th anniversary of the Consumer Electronics Show, including dozens of RIT alumni, faculty and students. -
January 5, 2017
Graduate study information session set for Jan. 13
Information on RIT’s 70-plus graduate program options, the admissions process, housing, scholarships, assistantships and financial aid opportunities will be presented. -
December 14, 2016
Comedian T.J. Miller to headline RIT’s FreezeFest
Popular actor and comedian T.J. Miller performs at 9 p.m. Feb. 18 as part of RIT’s FreezeFest. The winter festival also will feature open skating, the FreezeFest 5K run and RIT men’s hockey vs. Air Force games on Feb. 17 and 18. -
December 8, 2016
Imagine RIT poster design contest now open
The 10th annual poster design contest is open to current RIT students. More than 5,000 copies of the poster will be printed, and the winning artist will receive $500 in Tiger Bucks. -
December 6, 2016
RIT wins web design award for ‘Roar the Vote’
The ‘Roar the Vote’ website, which encouraged students to register to vote and was designed by an RIT team, has won a silver 2016 Davey Award for outstanding creative work. -
December 1, 2016
Engineers group plays big role in student’s success
Meet Kayla Davis, a fourth-year software engineering student and president of RIT’s Society of Software Engineers. -
November 29, 2016
RIT Theme Park Enthusiasts sweep competition
Six members of RIT’s Theme Park Enthusiasts club won four awards during the Ryerson Invitational Thrill Design Competition, hosted by Universal Creative. The competition invited teams from four colleges to create theme park rides or make modifications to existing rides. -
November 28, 2016
Donate personal care items to Center for Youth
RIT students are collecting personal care items, such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, soap, shavers, toilet paper and feminine hygiene products, to be donated to the Center for Youth shelter for teens. Donations are being collected on campus through Thursday. -
November 23, 2016
Students curate exhibit on individualized education
A class of 18 museum studies students put together “Charting One’s Course: The History of Individualized Education at RIT,” an exhibit that tells a wider narrative of RIT’s individualized education programs, which date back to the 1880s. -
November 23, 2016
Public relations club members receive college credit
RIT students who belong to the Public Relations Student Society of America are having their club meetings in a classroom this fall. They are among the first in the country to receive college credit for being members of a PRSSA chapter. -
November 21, 2016
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.