News

  • August 25, 2017

    President Munson giving speech at podium

    New RIT president shares vision for the future

    President David Munson delivered his first welcome address to the RIT community today, praising the university as “truly unique in American higher education” and sharing his ideas and questions for the future.
  • August 23, 2017

    President Munson giving speech to freshman

    New president welcomes, challenges new students

    President David Munson addressed the crowd gathered for convocation for new students. The entering class includes 2,800 first-year students, 560 transfer students and 1,000 students beginning graduate study.
  • August 21, 2017

    New students gathered on field together

    RIT welcomes most diverse class of freshmen

    RIT this week welcomes its most diverse freshman class of about 2,800 students. That gives a total approximate enrollment approaching 19,000 students for the first time at RIT.
  • August 3, 2017

    A portait of Leah Bockhahn.

    A family first: Graduating from college

    Over the past 10 years, more than 5,000 first-generation students have enrolled in RIT undergraduate programs. Many have found support in on-campus programs designed to extend opportunity and encourage the pursuit of higher education.
  • May 19, 2017

    Graduates taking pictures

    Commencement speaker: Success awaits hard workers

    Less than a decade after graduating, alumnus Austin McChord, founder and CEO of the widely acclaimed technology company Datto Inc., returned to campus today to give the commencement speech to some 3,500 graduates, including 32 students who earned Ph.D.s.
  • May 11, 2017

    Person setting up goodbuy goodbye

    Goodbye, Goodbuy! starts next week at RIT

    One of the largest college recycling and sustainability programs in the country is set to begin Monday, when the third annual Goodbye, Goodbuy! event kicks off as students begin to move out at the end of the academic year at RIT.
  • May 9, 2017

    Portrait of Leah Bockhahn

    A family first: Graduating from college

    Thousands of RIT students took the stage in the Gordon Field House May 19 as their status shifted from student to graduate. For Leah Bockhahn, Muhammad Ibraheem and Shantel Forrest, crossing the stage had an even deeper meaning as they became the first in their families to graduate from college.