A weekend of celebrations continued on Saturday, May 11th as graduates and their families gathered for Commencement Mass and Brunch at Hilbert College. After the events, Hilbert faculty, staff, graduates, and their loved ones prepared for the Commencement Ceremony at Watermark Wesleyan Church in Hamburg, NY.
To help prepare students for life after college, Katie Martoche hosts etiquette luncheons every semester. Students learn skills that can help them during job interviews, business meetings, and more. Here, students practiced etiquette for business lunches and dinners.
Hilbert is proud to be the location for Buffalo’s design “Hack-a-thon” on January 26, 2019, where professionals and students from the advertising and design community will work together in teams to help build a branded campaign from scratch in 5 hours for a local non-profit.
This event is a great way for students to gain real world experience in a fun and competitive setting, while networking with peers and professionals from Buffalo’s creative community.
Here’s how it works:
Professional team captains will work with teams of 3-5 students with an even disbursement of talent types (design, copywriting, marketing, etc.). Each team will be presented with a real-life non-profit organization in need of assets for a branded campaign. This will include a logo, tagline, and one marketing piece. Teams will have five hours to put together their branded campaign and will present their finished products to the judges, non-profit representatives, and other BrandHack participants.
You can register to get involved with this exciting event on the AAFBuffalo website here. Stay tuned on Facebook and Instagram for more information, and mark your calendars for more exciting Communication Career Week events happening at Hilbert from January 22-26, brought to you by the Hilbert College Digital Media and Communication Department in conjunction with the Hilbert Career Development & Community Engagement Center!
On November 17, the Hilbert Center for Career and Community Engagement hosted a Donate Life Summit on the Hilbert campus. The event welcomed over 70 high school students from seven local high schools to learn about the importance of organ donation in our communities.
This event was held in partnership with Unyts, Western New York’s only organ, eye, tissue, and community blood center. Unyts established the Donate Life Club in 2004 to assist groups of students at area high schools in the planning, development, and implementation of a campaign to increase awareness about organ, tissue, and blood donation among their peers.
By participating in workshops during the event, the 70+ high school students who attended Hilbert’s Donate Life Club Summit in November were able to receive the knowledge necessary to help spread accurate information about the importance of organ, eye, tissue, and blood donation to their school and home communities. The ultimate goal of Unyts and the Donate Life Club is to establish donation as a cultural norm. 
Hilbert is proud to be hosting another Donate Life Club Summit on Tuesday, December 18th. For more information, please contact Rachel Wozniak at rwozniak@hilbert.edu or by phone at (716) 926-8929.
The Hilbert Student Government Association hosted it’s annual Easter Party at the Hafner Recreation Center Sunday March 25th.
Hilbert Res Halls Recognized as the 7th Best in NYS
Niche generates annual rankings of different categories to determine the best colleges in the United States. In 2018, Hilbert was ranked seventh in New York State for best college dorms. Niche has a system to average in all the factors that they believe are the most important when determining the rankings. The factors they incorporated are, student surveys (70%), average housing cost (10%), housing capacity (10%), and student crime rate (10%). For students, these rankings could be very beneficial in deciding what college fits them the best. Niche provides student reviews for the public to view so students could read from a first-hand source to gain knowledge about a certain college campus.
Best College Dorms Methodology
Learn more on Hilbert’s Residence Life
