Initiatives
RISD provides its extraordinary community with a home where creativity can truly flourish and all the tools, equipment and opportunities needed to cultivate creative leaders. It all begins with accessibility—through robust financial aid—and is sustained by programs that support student well-being and development, faculty whose teaching is as groundbreaking as their creative practices and facilities that catalyze creative action.
Building on Our Strengths
Ensuring Student Success
Cultivating confident, capable leaders is at the heart of RISD’s mission. To help students reach their full creative potential, RISD is committed to significantly increasing scholarship, fellowship and materials funding and strengthening programming that supports holistic well-being. To prepare students for success after graduation, RISD is building its pipeline of internship, travel and entrepreneurial opportunities and maintaining engaging student-alumni relationships and networks.
Empowering Faculty
Extraordinary faculty are the backbone of the RISD experience. Endowing faculty positions and supporting professional development enables RISD to retain and recruit the best researchers and educators while advancing scholarship, collaboration, curricular developments and breakthrough work.
Strengthening the RISD Museum
The RISD Museum, the preeminent art museum in the region, builds meaningful relationships between people and art through its remarkable and ever-expanding collection, its thoughtful, welcoming programming and the unique opportunities it offers students and the public. Endowed support for staff, spaces, collection care, exhibitions and free community programs ensures that the museum is a place of meaningful experiences and deep learning.
Sustaining a Vital Campus
A campus that demonstrates RISD’s commitment to sustainable practices and state-of-the-art approaches to art and design is critical to promoting innovative work and rich interdisciplinary inquiry. Investments in RISD’s campus, from its residential core to its fabrication, teaching, research, exhibition and gathering spaces ensures that RISD continues to be a center of excellence and a global leader in art and design education.
Fueling Operational Excellence
Every day, RISD sustains its exceptional teaching and learning environment and plans for the future with the help of two powerful funds: the RISD Fund and the Museum Annual Fund. As sources of ongoing, reliable, unrestricted support, the RISD Fund and Museum Annual Fund allow the institution to meet immediate needs, respond to emerging priorities and chart a path forward.
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