Tag: mission

  • 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…

  • FIT’s First Ever Summer Institute

    For four intensive days in June, FIT was a hotbed of sustainability study and activity as we inaugurated our first Summer Institute–an interdisciplinary program that focused specifically on sustainability in fashion and textiles. Designed for industry professionals and academics, it answered a growing need for information on the part of those who want to broaden…

  • Sustainability Shapes Millennial Shopping Habits

    One of the most interesting outcomes of one of the latest polls on the Millenials came as a kind of a footnote. The poll was designed to examine the purchasing patterns of these 18 to 34-year olds–probably the most intensely and frequently studied generation in research history. And while the findings on how they buy…

  • Sustainability Grows in Our Curriculum

    Sustainability is an FIT passion: it drives many of our institutional practices and decisions; it is taught throughout the curriculum; it has been embraced as an ethos by the entire community, and it is part of our new mission statement–which of course is as it should be. Now, I am happy to say, we have…