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Cultural and Linguistic Diversity at FIT
With our increased awareness of the need to make campus life more welcoming for international students, I was delighted to learn that our Center for Excellence in Teaching had tackled this topic for its 2015-2016 student-faculty roundtable discussions. These popular events, funded by the Student Faculty Corporation, have been taking place for the past seven…
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College Rankings Revisited
Two weeks ago, FIT was named as one of the top five fashion colleges in the world by The Business of Fashion—the popular daily digital newsletter that covers the world of fashion globally. For me, it is a confounding piece of news. On the one hand, I want to cheer and fist-pump—and on the other,…
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Graduate Students Research the Changing Beauty Landscape
As we come closer to the launch of our innovation center, I am reminded of the kind of innovative work that comes out of our pioneering MPS program in Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management. This comes to mind now because the Class of 2015 has been invited to present at the Luxury Interactive conference—both…
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Pluto on the Horizon
The pictures of Pluto beaming down to us from that amazing little spacecraft called New Horizons are stunning—and utterly inspiring. Well, in my mind, everything about NASA’s mission to reach Pluto is stunning and amazing and inspiring. There it is, on the very edge of our solar system—and thanks to this idealistic mission, we can…
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Celebrating a Historic Step Toward Equality
It seemed especially appropriate that just a week before a quintessentially American holiday—Independence Day—we were able to commemorate another great step forward in U.S. history: the Supreme Court’s ruling on same-sex marriage. Indeed, this was a remarkable moment to which we have all been witness. As I have often said and we all acknowledge, FIT…