Center for Student Involvement (CSI)

What Center for Student Involvement (CSI) does

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) is a student services department within the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence, Rhode Island, operating the Involved@RISD digital platform. It serves approximately 58 staff supporting the student engagement function and serves as the institutional hub through which RISD students discover and join campus organizations, find and attend events, and maintain a digital record of their campus involvement. The entity is not an independent commercial company; it is a cost center within RISD funded through institutional budget, with no direct revenue generation, no external customers, and no commercial pricing model.

The Involved@RISD platform is built on Campus Labs Engage technology (provided by Active Network's Campus Labs division), confirmed by the static.campuslabsengage.com resource URLs and the discovery platform architecture. It consists of three integrated modules: Find Organizations (browse and join campus groups with discussion, news, and group messaging features), Attend Events (campus and local event discovery and attendance), and Track Involvement (digital record of memberships and activities). Distribution is direct and self-serve through the involved.risd.edu portal, promoted through RISD's institutional communication channels. The platform has no documented AI/ML capabilities, no proprietary models, no API surface, and no commercial integrations beyond the Campus Labs Engage stack.

Operationally, CSI's go-to-market is community-led within a single campus, with no geographic expansion signals, no product line extension, no funding history, and no mergers, acquisitions, or leadership changes disclosed. The technology partnership with Campus Labs is the single material external dependency; all other operational components are handled in-house as institutional functions. There is no evidence of independent corporate status, ownership structure, investors, or commercial expansion intent.

Name

Center for Student Involvement (CSI)

Website

https://csi.risd.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) is a Rhode Island School of Design student services department that operates the Involved@RISD platform, enabling RISD students to discover campus organizations, attend events, and track involvement via Campus Labs Engage technology.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Student Engagement Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Campus Events, Programming & Student Engagement (EDALAHAC)

Keywords

• Student engagement platform
• Campus involvement services
• Student organization management
• Campus event discovery
• Involvement tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Providence

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Institutional License: The Center for Student Involvement operates as an internal department of Rhode Island School of Design, providing student engagement services funded through institutional budget rather than direct revenue generation.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CSI operates Involved@RISD, a unified student engagement platform that enables Rhode Island School of Design students to discover and join campus organizations, find and attend campus events, and track their co-curricular involvement. The platform is built on Campus Labs Engage technology and is provided to RISD students at no direct cost as part of the institution's student services infrastructure.

Product overview

Center for Student Involvement (CSI) operates Involved@RISD, a unified student engagement platform for the Rhode Island School of Design. The platform consists of three integrated core modules: Find Organizations (for discovering and joining campus groups with messaging features), Attend Events (for discovering campus events), and Track Involvement (for recording activities and memberships). The three products work together as a consolidated student involvement management system.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Find Organizations A platform module that allows RISD students to discover and join campus organizations, providing access to discussion boards, news posts, and group messaging capabilities for each organization.
• Attend Events A platform feature that enables RISD students to discover and attend campus or local events, serving as the event discovery and attendance management component of the Involved@RISD platform.
• Track Involvement An involvement tracking tool that allows RISD students to record their campus activities and memberships, enabling them to document and showcase their engagement and involvement history.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Campus Labs (Active Network)coreTechnology or IntegrationThe Involved@RISD platform is built on Campus Labs Engage technology, evidenced by the static.campuslabsengage.com resource URLs and the discovery platform architecture. Campus Labs provides the underlying student engagement and involvement tracking software infrastructure for the institutional deployment.

Recent moves3 records

Direct peers

• Starfish (Hobsons): Student success and engagement platform providing appointment tracking, early-alert, and involvement tools used by colleges to record and act on student engagement data — comparable to CSI's Track Involvement function.
• Symplicity: Provider of student-services platforms including student involvement and campus life modules used by higher-education institutions, serving a similar student-services mission to CSI.
• EMS Software: Campus event, room scheduling, and academic-space management platform widely used in higher education for event discovery and attendance — directly comparable to CSI's Attend Events module.
• Presence: Student engagement and involvement platform offering organization management, event discovery, and attendance tracking for college campuses — closely overlapping CSI's three core product modules.
• Campus Labs (Anthology): Provider of the Campus Labs Engage platform that CSI/RISD uses directly, including the same organization discovery, event management, and involvement tracking capabilities. Highly comparable because CSI is essentially a single-institution deployment of their product.
• Watermark: Higher-education student success and engagement platform with modules for outcomes, involvement, and retention — overlaps with CSI's tracking and engagement-recording capabilities.

Emerging players

• StarRez: Student housing and residential life management platform that increasingly extends into campus-wide student engagement and involvement tracking — partial but growing overlap with CSI's involvement-tracking function.

Broad incumbents

• EAB (Navigate): Broad higher-education student-success platform including Navigate for advising and engagement; a larger incumbent whose student-engagement capabilities partially overlap with CSI's involvement-tracking mission.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Investors

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Investments

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