Many printing industry leaders — both past and present — attended the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to earn a bachelor’s degree in printing. Dating back to 1922 and long considered the premier program for the graphic arts industry, it drew trade and high school graduates who often hailed from family-owned printing businesses. In 1981, RIT’s printing program peaked with 775 students, learning business management and hands-on (primarily sheetfed and web offset) production operations skills.
So, it’s no surprise that some of the roughly 4,000 active alumni are disheartened to learn that RIT’s print and graphic media technology curriculum, which has experienced several years of declining enrollment, is being integrated into the university’s packaging science program.
Currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students in the print program will complete their coursework to graduation, according to Kyle Dunno, packaging and graphic media science department chair in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology (CET). Armed with packaging science undergraduate and graduate degrees from Clemson University, followed by experience out in the field, Dunno joined RIT in 2018 to chair the school’s packaging science programs. In 2022, CET combined its printing and packaging science departments.
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