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Rochester Institute of Technology

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology seal.svg
Former name
Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (RAMI)
Motto The making of a living and the living of a life
Type Private doctoral university
Established 1829 (1829)
Academic affiliation
Endowment $761.9 million
President William Destler
David C. Munson, Jr (incoming)
Provost Jeremy A. Haefner
Academic staff
1,544 (Full-time, part-time, adjunct)
Administrative staff
2,310
Students 16,842
Undergraduates 13,711
Postgraduates 3,131
Location Henrietta, New York, U.S.
43°05′04″N 77°40′30″W / 43.084412°N 77.674949°W / 43.084412; -77.674949Coordinates: 43°05′04″N 77°40′30″W / 43.084412°N 77.674949°W / 43.084412; -77.674949
Campus Suburban 1,300 acres (5.3 km2)
Colors Brown and Orange
         
Nickname Tigers
Mascot "RITchie" the Tiger
Sporting affiliations

NCAA

Website www.rit.edu
RIT Lettermark.svg

NCAA

Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private doctoral university within the town of Henrietta in the Rochester, New York metropolitan area.

RIT is composed of nine academic colleges, including National Technical Institute for the Deaf. The Institute is one of only a small number of engineering institutes in the State of New York, including New York Institute of Technology, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It is most widely known for its fine arts, computing, engineering, and imaging science programs; several fine arts programs routinely rank in the national "Top 10" according to US News & World Report.

The Institute as it is known today began as a result of an 1891 merger between Rochester Athenæum, a literary society founded in 1829 by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester and associates, and Mechanics Institute, a Rochester institute of practical technical training for local residents founded in 1885 by a consortium of local businessmen including Captain Henry Lomb, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb. The name of the merged institution at the time was called Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics Institute (RAMI). In 1944, the university changed its name to Rochester Institute of Technology.

The Institute originally resided within the city of Rochester, New York, proper, on a block bounded by the Erie Canal, South Plymouth Avenue, Spring Street, and South Washington Street (approximately 43°09′09″N 77°36′55″W / 43.152632°N 77.615157°W / 43.152632; -77.615157). Its art department was originally located in the Bevier Memorial Building. By the middle of the twentieth century, RIT began to outgrow its facilities, and surrounding land was scarce and expensive; additionally, in 1959, the New York Department of Public Works announced a new freeway, the Inner Loop, was to be built through the city along a path that bisected the Institute's campus and required demolition of key Institute buildings. In 1961, an unanticipated donation of $3.27 million ($26,207,339 today) from local Grace Watson, for whom RIT's dining hall was later named, allowed the Institute to purchase land for a new 1,300-acre (5.3 km2) campus several miles south along the east bank of the Genesee River in suburban Henrietta. Upon completion in 1968, the Institute moved to the new suburban campus, where it resides today.


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