What is a Major Student Organization?
These organizations represent students with common needs, interests, and concerns and work with RIT administration, faculty, and other organizations to give students a voice on campus. In addition, they control substantial budgets that support student activities and bring speakers, performers, and special events to campus.
There are ten Major Student Organizations on RIT campus!
AALANA Collegiate Association (ACA)
The Black Awareness Coordinating Committee is a governing board within Student Government which helps to provide programs and review issues on behalf of the AHANA (African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, and Native American) populations at RIT.
College Activities Board (CAB)
The College Activities Board (CAB) is comprised of student employees and volunteers who assess, plan, market, and implement entertainment for other students. A center professional advises the contracting negotiation and implementation process for more than 95 programs annually including special events, major entertainers and concerts, the major institute Film series, and on-going novelty and musical acts.
Global Union
Global Union is the largest multicultural student organization at RIT. It promotes understanding of diversity and the development of a strong multicultural movement within our community. The Union encourages cooperation, interaction, and communication among all ethnic groups at RIT while providing leadership and support to all its affiliated organizations.
Greek Council
This governing board within Student Government helps to provide coordination and direction to the Interfraternity Council (representing the RIT chartered fraternities), the Panhellenic Council (representing the RIT sororities) and Pan-Hellenic Council (representing the NPHC chapters chartered at or near RIT). The council helps to represent issues related to Greek Life for the 27 chapters with the institute's community.
NTID Student Congress
This governing board (existing within the Student Government) helps to provide services and programs, and review issues for the approximately 1,100 students enrolled within NTID (the National Technical Institute for the Deaf) and RIT.
OCASA
The Off-Campus and Apartment Student Association is a governing board within Student Government which helps to provide services and programs, and review issues that affect students living in RIT-owned apartments and commuters. OCASA is housed in the RITreat, a student-centered lounge in the Student Alumni Union and also operates several satellite offices in the apartments which provide word-processing services for students.
Reporter Magazine
RIT students produce some of the most professional collegiate publications in the country. Reporter Magazine is published by students weekly, except during examinations and holidays, and serves as the student news magazine. It includes "CalendaRIT," a listing of campus activities. Reporter has consistently won state and national awards. Such publications draw their talented staffs—artists, photographers, writers, managers, and printers—from the entire student body.
Residence Halls Association (RHA)
The Residence Halls Association is a governing board within Student Government which helps to provide services and programs, and review issues for students living in residence halls.
Student Government
The Student Government is the representative body for students. It works with RIT administration, faculty and staff to communicate the needs and desires of the student body and to communicate the decisions of the administration to RIT students. It encourages the student body to formulate and express its opinion, provides a series of services to student organizations, recognizes clubs and major organizations and actively engages in the university’s open governance system.
WITR
WITR is an FM radio station operated by RIT students. It is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission as a noncommercial, educational station. It is also licensed to be on the air 24 hours a day with a power of 910 watts, which covers the Rochester area.