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The Student Run Design Center provides a graphic design resource to all on-campus clubs and organizations, as well as University departments. Staffed by work-study students, the design center creates and designs posters, flyers, banners, and other tools for advertising and announcing events. Please note that requests do require at least seven business days to complete. Late requests may not be accommodated depending on Design Center workload. Students utilize Mac workstations and the Adobe Creative Suite to make these banners, posters, club logos, and t-shirt designs.

To submit a request, please select the area that applies to you or your group below: 

Please note: Banner space must be booked BEFORE the banner request is submitted.
Requests can be submitted online via Hawk Link using the following link:

Design Center Policies

• Seven business days required for all design work
• Three business days required for each design change (maximum of three changes)
• Work is processed on a "first in, first out" basis
• Final discretion of design and layout is up to the artist
• Flyer copies printed in SPLO for organizations or departments are charged to the respective organization or department account
• Flyer copies printed in SPLO for clubs are charged to the Student Senate
• Departments must pick up any posters, flyers, or other completed work
• All Design Center charges are billed to departments at the end of each semester. Questions about billing should be directed to the SPLO Administrative Assistant.

For any questions or comments about the status of a Design Center request, please contact us at designcenter@rwu.edu.  

Employment

Students who have experience with the Adobe Creative suite and have been awarded Federal Work Study can contact Robin Lancaster about potential employment opportunities in the Design Center. 

Building Managers assist by hanging banners, assisting with student advertising, event setup, taking attendance at events, setting up of tables for club/organization advertising, and other various tasks associated with student events. This is a payroll position and is typically held by student leaders in their junior and senior years.  

Students who hold this position will help supervise the Hawks' Hangout (the lower area in the Campus Recreation Center) to ensure that billiards tables, foosball tables, televisions, and board games are available to any students during building hours. This is a work study position and can be held by any student.  

In our main office, we employee students to assist with paperwork, major projects, budgeting, providing information on our events and activities, and other customer service-orientated tasks. We work with students to match students' skills, talents, and passions to assign various projects throughout the year. This is a work study position and can be held by any student.  

Our social media presence is maintained by a team of undergraduate students who create and share content related to involvement, engagement, and the student experience. Our team implements innovative marketing strategies to grow the audiences of each account and increase engagement with our department. In addition, our team measures and documents the impact of social media by studying analytics, then makes recommendations for the future. To highlight events happening on campus, our team attends campus events to take pictures and capture video footage, while having fun and enjoying the events. Along with marketing efforts, our team designs graphics and other materials for posting on social media and print publications (i.e. flyers). This position is a work study position and can be held by any student with design, marketing, and/or social media experience. 

Students who are interested in any of these roles should contact Student Programs, Leadership, & Orientation via telephone at (401) 254-3088 or via email at studentprograms@rwu.edu. 

Interested in working with Roger's very own mascot, Swoop the Hawk? Swoop Spirit Squad works with Swoop to enhance engagement on campus and celebrate alongside the student body. The position can include the mascot position itself or the handler for Swoop. This is a work study position. 

Events Staff is responsible for implementing the programs and events put on by our student organizations, clubs and departments. Our student Event Staff is responsible for the physical set-up operations, security and break down of all events. This includes setting up pipe-and-drape, setting up lighting and sound systems through rigging and design, designing seating and tables for various campus spaces, utilizing projection and visual equipment for presentations, training on CCTV camera equipment, and other tasks associated with event execution.  

Event Staff members who show more interest in learning lighting design, audio controls, and other "back of house" components during a show or performance can gain hands-on experience working alongside the Manager and Assistant Manager of Event Operations. In this role, while it is helpful for students to have previous knowledge of sound boards and lighting software, it is not required, as students will have the opportunity to learn through training with our Event Staff professional staff.  

If you are interested in this role, please contact Gordon Wood, Manager of Event Operations at gwood@rwu.edu