Dear RIT Administration,
We are all members of RIT’s community: tens of thousands of people who live and work on this campus in a brick city that we call home.
We are, in essence, citizens of this city. As citizens, we deserve to know more about the decisions and processes that impact our school, our home and our lives.
Transparency is an essential component of any community — especially that of a college campus. A lack of transparency creates a deficiency in trust, stifles creativity and precludes universal consensus.
Though lack of transparency is often perceived that way, this is not to say that all cases are malicious. But they can be...