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>> SARAH GRIFFITH: This is the first year that ACE has been in existence, which is the
commuter engagement association on campus, and we were talking a lot about ways to engage
commuter students.
There hadn’t been much programming done
for them before, so we talked about first just having a day-long of events, but realized
there were so many different things that we were trying to bring into engaging and educating
commuter students, that we made it into a week.
The puppy rescue shelter dogs, the therapy dogs that came, were a great stress reliever
for students.
The giveaways, of course, were very successful. The students loved the T-shirts,
and we had lunch totes and lunch bags and grocery bags and all types of things.
We served granola bars and fruit and different types of things and coffee and tea and hot
chocolate, and the students really loved that. That was bright and early, 8 a.m. in the parking lot.
They all had great turnout, given that it
was the first year that these things happened. Even when we had the car on the middle of
the Infinity Quad and students were learning how to change a flat tire. People got something
out of everything.
I think if there was one thing that I would
want everyone to take away from Commuter SpiRIT Week, and the purpose of ACE on campus is
that we are paying attention to the commuter population, the needs that these students
have, and this is such a very large portion of RIT’s community that’s been very untapped
and hasn’t had a lot of outreach for before.
The purpose of this organization is for the
commuter students and for their voice, so bring your voices out, let’s hear what we
have to say, and let’s make RIT a very welcoming and embracing campus for our commuter population.