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.

December 1, 2016

Top stories and videos for November

News and a video about the launch of RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studios were among the most popular last month. Check out all of November’s top stories and videos.
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.
November 15, 2016

Business club hosts ice skating fundraiser

RIT’s Women in Business club hopes to raise $500 to help send a Make-A-Wish child to Disney World. The club is offering ice skating from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday in Ritter Arena. Admission is $5 and includes skate rental, snacks and submarine sandwiches.
November 14, 2016

Student selected for Gandhi Institute fellowship

Janine Burge, who is studying psychology and urban studies in RIT’s School of Individualized Study and sociology and anthropology in the College of Liberal Arts, has been selected as a 2016-17 Gandhi Institute Service Fellow at the Rochester-based M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
November 10, 2016

Graduate student finds family in peers

Meet Sanjay Varma Rudraraju, a computer science graduate student from Visakhapatnam, India. He works in The Wallace Center and recently participated in The Giant Read, in which RIT students visited School No. 5 in the city of Rochester and read to first-graders.
November 7, 2016

RIT hosts annual Veterans Day Breakfast

The sixth annual celebration, set for Friday in the Gordon Field House, pays tribute to those who are serving or have served honorably in uniform.
November 4, 2016

Student designs dress out of paper

Meet Heather Williams, a third-year medical illustration major who designed and created an 18th century French court gown made out of paper for the CIAS Foundations Beaux Arts Ball.
November 1, 2016

Camela Douglass headlines fitness event

Dancing with DIVAS, hosted by RIT’s Determined Individuals Victoriously Achieving Success, features fitness guru Camela Douglass and Prince Diaby, founder and choreographer of Generation X Dance Group, on Thursday in the Gordon Field House.

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