President’s News

  • April 15, 2022

    side-by-side portraits of Kimberly Bryant, Josephine King Olsen, G. Peter Jemison, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

    RIT to confer four honorary degrees at May 6 commencement ceremony

    RIT will confer honorary degrees to four outstanding individuals at its 2022 commencement ceremony on May 6: Kimberly Bryant, founder of the nonprofit organization Black Girls CODE; Josephine King Olsen, former director of the Peace Corps; G. Peter Jemison, a member of the Heron clan of the Seneca Nation of Indians; and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine.

  • April 12, 2022

    table with games, giveaways, and a banner that reads RIT Title nine.

    Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Title IX

    The 50th anniversary of the signing of Title IX into law will be commemorated in June, but the impact of the government’s dedication to changing education remains a consistent and crucial part of the landscape for women everywhere.

  • April 8, 2022

    seven dancers dressed in shades of blue and purple reaching out in various directions.

    RIT to create a School of Performing Arts

    RIT is creating a School of Performing Arts to offer additional creative opportunities for thousands of students who wish to pursue their passions in performance while majoring in a range of other fields. The new school will be housed within RIT’s College of Liberal Arts beginning July 1, and a national search is underway for a director. 

  • March 25, 2022

    four people cutting a ceremonial ribbon.

    College of Art and Design celebrates alumnus Chance Wright’s transformational gift

    RIT’s College of Art and Design hosted a dedication ceremony on Friday marking the recent completion of a “transformational” renovation of the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences and honoring the alumnus whose gift made it possible. The event honored Chance Wright ’18, ’19 and his mother, Pamela Mars Wright, whose $3.5 million gift fueled the renovation and reconfiguration of the third floor of Gannett Hall.

  • March 16, 2022

    exterior of brick building at dusk.

    RIT and NTID receive federal funding appropriation from 2022 Omnibus budget

    Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced fiscal year 2022 funding he secured that will revitalize Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. Sen. Schumer highlighted significant funding in the amount of $88.5 million that NTID received in the fiscal year 2022 appropriations bill, a $7 million increase over fiscal year 2021, with $3 million of that increase going toward NTID’s Regional STEM Center efforts.

  • March 9, 2022

    members of the various branches of the U.S. military standing during a breakfast.

    RIT designated a Military Friendly School for 2022-2023

    The Military Friendly Schools list is created each year based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide, input from student veterans, and responses to the proprietary, data-driven Military Friendly Schools survey from participating institutions.

  • February 10, 2022

    RIT President Munson wearing a mask and speaking into a microphone in a radio station.

    Decrease in COVID brings hope for more normal commencement

    RIT President David Munson addressed COVID, Imagine RIT, RIT Dubai, athletic scholarships, and more during his latest “Ask Munson” question-and-answer interview Wednesday on WITR (89.7) radio. The show  is scheduled to be aired again 10 a.m. Saturday.