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No Impact Week
As a college, FIT does a good deal to promote the goals of sustainability. But in the end, those lofty goals will go nowhere if we do not make them personal and take individual responsibility for putting them into practice: recycle our trash, consume mindfully, turn out the lights and so on. This week, FIT…
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A New Tradition for Our Graduate Students
The night before commencement, we held a hooding ceremony for our masters degree candidates–a traditional ritual that recognizes the successful completion of their studies. This was the first time we actually conducted this ceremony separate from the larger commencement ceremony–and it gave us the opportunity to celebrate our graduate students specifically and all they mean…
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Welcome to May and My New Blog
May is always the most exciting month for college presidents–and I am no exception. It is the run-up to commencement–the time of year, here at FIT, when our lobbies, corridors and classrooms are ablaze in displays of our students’ glorious talents…capstone projects, exhibitions, final papers, crits and presentations. Our students and faculty are no doubt…