About RMU
Office of the President
Hello, I'm Greg Dell'Omo, president of Robert Morris University. Welcome to the home of the Colonials.
We are in the midst of a momentous year in the life of Robert Morris University. In the fall, we celebrated the university's 90th anniversary with the opening of our new School of Business building, the first official home for our flagship school at our Moon Township campus. The building is the centerpiece of our $40-million Changing Lives, Building Futures fundraising campaign, and so far we have raised $37 million toward that goal.
We also opened our 13th residence hall, Peter Salem Hall, which houses 190 students in apartment-style residences. We have a record number of students living on campus this year, approximately 1,700, and we recently purchased the Holiday Inn Pittsburgh Airport which we will ultimately convert to a 500-bed residence hall in anticipation of future growth.
And that's just the beginning. We are renovating the Wayne Center as a new home for the School of Communications and Information Systems. The 53,000 square foot building will feature: a gallery; a three-story atrium with critique space; four general classrooms; computer labs and studio space; and a café with indoor and outdoor seating. The project will be completed in phases with academic spaces on the ground floor completed in time for the fall 2012 term and faculty offices on the second and third floors completed by January 2013. Next up is a medical simulation center for our School of Nursing and Health Sciences, which will be constructed in phases beginning in the summer.
This growth puts RMU a long way from where we started, 90 years ago, as the Pittsburgh School of Accountancy in downtown Pittsburgh. But what have been consistent throughout our evolution are our values. We have always given students a professionally focused education, with an emphasis on engaged learning that allows them to succeed from their first day on the job all the way through their careers. Students don’t have to worry how they will fare in the “real world;” our campus is the real world. It's why 95 percent of RMU students have a job or are enrolled in graduate school within a year after earning their degree.
It's good to know some things never change.