Tiger's Tale

'Tis the Season

Let this giving season bring out the giver in all of us.

RIT is just one community comprised of thousands. Whichever college you studied at, your major, your graduation year, or if you're a student, alum, faculty, staff, or friend, we all are one RIT!

At the end of this calendar year, reflect on your connection to RIT and the support you've received from being a part of this dynamic and amazing community. We encourage you to kindle that flame of support with a gift to benefit our current students

Alumni Book Club

Can you believe it? A new year is fast approaching, and we have just the resolution for you: Read More Books!

In the spirit of new beginnings and goal-setting, we invite you to join the RIT Alumni Book Club! Connecting through a private, free, online discussion forum, the group spends eight weeks reading each book and finishes five books a year. As a book club member, you often get to vote on the books we read, and the reading periods often culminate with a Livestream Author Talk.

Our first book of 2023 will be Horse by Pultizer Prize winner Geraldine Brooks, and we are thrilled that she will join us for an Author Talk on March 7.

Be sure to register before we start our reading journey on January 6! We hope you will join us

Sign up for our online book club here

Year-End Tax Saving Strategies

As 2022 comes to a close, so does your ability to lower your taxes. A little planning now can save time and money later. Consider these tax-saving strategies before December 31:

Charitable Contributions:

• Outright Gift of Cash: Make an immediate impact and take an income tax deduction (if you itemize)

• Stocks and Bonds: Donate appreciated securities and avoid capital gains tax. Also receive an income tax deduction for the full value of the stock. The after-tax cost is lower than donating cash.

• Qualified Charitable Distribution (QCD): If you are age 70 ' or older, you can make a tax-free gift from your traditional IRA to RIT. A QCD gift before December 31will not be included in your 2022 taxable income; if you are 72 or older it will be applied to your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD). Very smart.

• Donor Advised Fund: Create future flexibility for yourself. Receive a 2022 tax deduction with a contribution to a DAF before year-end, but delay the decision to direct the distributions to your favorite charities.1You determine the timetable.

• Charitable Gift Annuity: A gift to RIT that first provides lifetime income to you and/or a loved one. You receive (1) fixed payments that protect against future inflation and market volatility; (2) an immediate income tax deduction that can be carried forward up to five years; and (3) tax-free payments for a specified number of years.

Learn more

Woman's Leadership Summit

The WLS, hosted by the Leadership Academy at Saunders, is an RIT Women's Leadership Summit held in the Student Alumni Union and Campus Center. Its mission is to inspire, connect, and educate women and allies to become tomorrow's future leaders. We focus on driving leadership excellence in all industries from arts, sciences, to technology.

The WLS student planning committee is currently seeking summit proposalsThere are three opportunities we would like to offer RIT alumnae to participate in and run throughout WLS. Please submit a proposal if interested! The deadline to submit a proposal is Monday, December 5, 2022.

Submit your proposal

Amazon Smile

Holiday shopping is right around the corner, and we don't want you to forget that you can support RIT for free at the same time. When shopping Amazon this year, bookmark the address below and Amazon will donate 0.5% of eligible purchases to RIT'no fees, no extra cost. Happy shopping!

Get started

Golden Brick Awards
Ceremony and Breakfast

Presented annually at the Faculty & Staff Alumni Breakfast, this special award goes to alumni faculty and alumni staff who go above and beyond in connecting and engaging with our graduates.

Congratulations to this year's recipients (from left to right):

Karen Proctor MBA '79
Colleen Peterson BS '91, MS '94
Karen Braun Ph.D.'96
Kory Samuels BS '07, MBA '11

Full list of award recipients

Discount at Shop One

Gifts in Action

Lia Grammer BS '25 is excited about all the unique opportunities that packaging science, her field of study, provides for college graduates. Even during her freshman year at RIT, she was a part of an invitation-only packaging competition, worked as a teaching assistant, served as an e-board member and social media coordinator for the student chapter of the Institute of Packaging Professionals, and was a member of the Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers. None of this would have been possible without the scholarship funding she received.

Read more >

Ashley Lasko BS '23

The eldest of three and one of two siblings who currently attend RIT Ashley Lasko BS '23 has found academic success since middle school when she first became interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics academic disciplines.) In high school, Ashley earned a special RIT scholarship award for creativity and innovation, which sealed the deal that she would receive her undergraduate degree as a Tiger. This past May, she received another scholarship which is reserved for the eligible junior with the highest grade point average.

Read more >

RIT Alumni Referral Award

The Early Decision II deadline is right around the corner...

Alumni like you play an important role in recruiting future Tigers by recommending RIT to prospective students within your families, communities, and professional networks. And now that role is even more valuable!

Did you know, when you refer a prospective student to RIT, that student is eligible for the RIT Alumni Referral Award, a $1,000 per year scholarship renewable for four years? Each alum can refer one undergraduate applicant per year for this award.

Click here for more information on submissions and deadlines

More Alumni
News and Events

Transforming RIT: Reconnecting in Atlanta

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

2023 Saunders Accounting Banquet

Research to Action (R2A) Webinar Series: Amplifying Her Voice

President Munson, trustees tour the SHED

Yammout helps shape RIT Dubai

RIT engineering alumni is part of DART team that changed the speed and path of an asteroid

Alumna uses film to teach diversity

Photo alumna named 2022 Guggenheim fellow

Class Notes

Ben Braun BFA '22, recently won the Award of Excellence in the Multimedia: Documentary Short category for his movie, Saving our Sons,at the College Photographer of the Year competition.

Read more >

RIT/NTID Alumni Joanne Galvez BS '12 married Jonathan Dollhopf in Rochester, NY on September 16, 2022.

Read more >

Charesse (Barrett) Forbes BS '18 has authored and self-published the first of several children's books that will be a part of the series she created called Chasing Chase.

Read more >

Share your expertise. Become a mentor. Find your next job.

Update: 1,650 alumni and 1,682 students have joined RIT's virtual community making connections for life. It takes less than 2 minutes and you're instantly connected with students and fellow alumni on our exclusive digital platform.

Join Today

Questions? Contact the Office of Alumni Relations

ritalum@rit.edu or 585-475-4485