RIT's 1998 Annual Appreciation Report: President's Report

Academic achievements earn 4.0

	The 113th annual commencement ceremony in 1998 featured student speaker Pamela Flemming, College of Liberal Arts, and Bruce James, retired founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Barclays Law Publishers, a 1964 alumnus of the School of Printing Management and Sciences and vice chair of the Board of Trustees.

RIT’s reputation as a national leader in career-oriented programs continues to grow as students worldwide are attracted to a university with more than a century of success in the field. This fall’s freshman class is the largest in RIT’s history, breaking last year’s all-time record.

The 1998–99 freshman class is RIT’s most diverse, with the largest-ever increase in African American, Hispanic American and Native American students as well as increases in first-year international students and women, and strong growth in out-of-state freshmen.

RIT’s social work program has earned reaccreditation. The Council on Social Work Education team’s written reports praised the program as “one of the most involved, in-depth curricula we’ve seen.”

The master of science in secondary education program in the National Technical Institute for the Deaf received endorsement by the Council on Education of the Deaf.

(Left to right) Young Lim Chung, Brian Jackson, Professor Douglas Ford Rea and Michael Dudnick review pages of Paradigm, produced entirely on-line by RIT distance learners.

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In a unique educational experience, RIT students from Rochester to Dallas to Singapore worked together to produce a magazine—entirely over the Internet. Students in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences put together the 20-page Paradigm, from concept and design to editing and prepress production, all in a virtual classroom (www.rit.edu/~paradigm).

To enhance its world-renowned resources in graphic arts, imaging and printing, RIT has formed printRIT, an alliance of the School of Printing Management and Sciences, CIMSPrint and the Technical and Education Center. PrintRIT will provide better customer service by unifying resources that range from seminars, customized training and product evaluation to applied research, credit-bearing courses and degree programs.

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