Lunar New Year Stamp Designed by FIT’s Kam Mak

Happy New Year, everyone! A creative start to this new year is a colorful rendering of the Lunar New Year rooster created by FIT’s Illustration assistant chair Kam Mak for the new postage stamp. Mak was selected by the U.S. Postal Service in 2008 to create an annual stamp through 2019 for its Celebrating Lunar New Year series. …

FIT’s First Youth Delegate to the United Nations

Gabriella Manduca, FIT’s first student delegate to the United Nations, is well on her way to make a difference in the world. Manduca, a seventh-semester International Trade and Marketing student, became a youth delegate this fall through one such NGO partner, NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the world’s largest nonprofit dedicated to international education and …

PayScale.com Ranks FIT #1

PayScale, which links individuals and businesses to the largest salary profile database in the world, ranks FIT first in the nation among community colleges for alumni mid-career salaries ($74,600) in the 2016-17 PayScale College Salary Report. PayScale collects data through an ongoing online compensation survey. The site ranked 1,388 colleges and universities in total, with an …

FIT Ranked Top 10 Globally

Yes, all of the Facebook posts are true. The fashion news website Business of Fashion placed FIT’s undergraduate programs sixth in the world and its graduate programs tenth in its second annual Global Fashion Schools Rankings. Just to put in perspective how amazing this news is,  FIT and Parsons School of Design are the only …

Life Hack: How to be an Optimist

As we begin to get further into school it can be difficult to be optimistic when you are stressed out. But finding ways to stay optimistic about the future and your life will allow you to be positive even when your life isn’t exactly all rainbows. First, It is a very important goal to set …