A hospitality workforce training program run by Saunders College of Business is responding both to the needs of underserved immigrants and refugees seeking meaningful work and an industry that has been devastated by staff shortages wrought by the pandemic.
A. Sue Weisler Students last semester drew live birds brought by the organization Wild Wings. A Zoological and Botanical Illustration class being offered again this spring allows students to accurately depict animals and plants for use in various media.
You thought 2020 was bad?
Try living in the dark underworld of 19th-century Victorian England, which featured poverty, cholera, epidemics, the Summer of the Great Stink (which led to the first modern urban sewage system), madhouses, arsenic poisonings, and Jack the Ripper.
Those topics will be discussed through literature in
Victorians’ Secrets, a new RIT class being offered this spring in the Department of English. It is just one of several unique classes offered throughout the university being held in-person, online, or blended.