Office of the President (RIT): Recent submissions

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    • RIT Strategic Plan 2005-2015 

      Simone, Albert (2004-02-03)
      This primer is a story about an exciting journey. It starts in the year 2005 at Rochester Institute of Technology.

    • Convocation Remarks: 2004 

      Simone, Albert (2004-05-21)
      For the past year, the RIT community – faculty, staff, and students working together – have been developing the Strategic Plan which will carry RIT over the next ten years. Five Task Forces, composed of 340 faculty, staff, ...

    • Brick City Festival and Alumni Weekend: 2003 

      Simone, Albert (2003-10-11)
      Good morning everyone and welcome to our sixth annual Brick City Festival and Alumni Weekend. It is wonderful to have so many parents and alumni together. We consider ourselves a family at RIT – students, faculty, ...

    • Continuing achievment and challenging opportunity 

      Simone, Albert (2003-09-04)
      Good Morning and welcome to the academic year 2003-2004. This year, approximately 2800 faculty and staff will carry our university forward. New faculty and staff number approximately 100. Will all the new faculty and ...

    • Very good to great 

      Simone, Albert (2003-07-18)
      In previous Board of Trustees meetings and in my paper “Shaping RIT’s Destiny”, we discussed the concept of “good to great”. I shall not repeat that discussion here. Rather, I would like to point out quickly that our ...

    • Convocation Remarks: 2003 

      Simone, Albert (2003-05-23)
      This evening I am going to talk about “An Inclusive America”. Over many decades this has been a sensitive subject. Today it is no less so. Over the years, inclusiveness in America has been an important issue. Today it ...

    • Shaping RIT's destiny 

      Simone, Albert (2003-05-20)
      In 1994, after over a year of campus wide deliberation, the Board of Trustees approved Learning and Careers 2004: The Strategic Plan for RIT. That planning process was a very comprehensive and inclusive process. It was ...

    • Is affirmative action in university admissions legal, effective, and just? 

      Simone, Albert (2003 05)
      Since 1978, the “Law of the land” has been the decision handed down by Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr., in Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke. In a 5 to 4 vote, Justice Powell ruled that while quotas are illegal, ...

    • Building on success 

      Simone, Albert (2002-09-04)
      Good morning and welcome back to those of you who became part of the RIT family prior to this academic year. Good morning and welcome to those of you who are beginning or continuing your careers at RIT. All of you – both ...

    • Convocation Remarks: 2002 

      Simone, Albert (2002-05-24)
      This evening 3,600 students distributed over 250 degree programs will graduate. Seventy-five percent of you are undergraduate students and 25% are graduate students. Sixtyfive percent are men and 35% are women. You ...

    • Achieving a diverse faculty at RIT 

      Simone, Albert (2002-03-25)
      This conference is focused on achieving a breakthrough in the recruiting of faculty of African American, Latino American, and Native American (AALANA) ancestries. While we focus today on faculty, the campus continues to ...

    • RIT: A Unique institution within the family of universities 

      Simone, Albert (2001-09-05)
      Good morning and, for most of you, welcome back. For new faculty and staff, for the first time welcome to what I know you will find to be an exciting, challenging, and fulfilling next step on your career paths. I believe ...

    • Convocation remarks: 2001 

      Simone, Albert (2001-05-25)
      Graduates: You soon will be facing the challenge and responsibility of leadership. You will face the challenge and responsibility every day, and increasingly over time. You will face them at home, at work, and in the community.

    • Middle of the fifth inning 

      Simone, Albert (2000-09-05)
      Good morning and welcome. As an institution of higher learning, we are a special community – students, faculty, staff, administration, and trustees – all working together for a common goal. That goal is the education and ...

    • Testimony of Albert J. Simone President, Rochester of Institute of Technology, to the subcommittee on defense committee on appropriations United States House of Representatives 

      Simone, Albert (2005-07-05)
      Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee, on behalf of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York, I would like to first take this opportunity to thank you for the support that the Subcommittee has ...