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FIT: The MIT for the Fashion Industry?

by Dr. Joyce F. Brown Posted on August 9, 2021

One of FIT’s founders, Morris Ritter, famously said, “What we need is an MIT for the fashion industry.” Seventy-seven years later, we are well on our way. There is, after all, the very successful, ongoing partnership we forged with MIT … Continue reading →

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Documenting a Disappearing Way of Life

by Dr. Joyce F. Brown Posted on February 19, 2016

I am always glad to have an opportunity to share the amazing variety of work our faculty produce at FIT. We have such an opportunity in the campus showing of Praveen Chaudhry’s moving photography exhibit, Invisible Nomads of the Himalayas: A Life … Continue reading →

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Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Competition

by Dr. Joyce F. Brown Posted on December 2, 2014

The Foreign Language Poetry Recitation Competition celebrated its 25th anniversary here at FIT this year in two days of recitations in November. In a way, its longevity is a surprise—it is counter-intuitive. Who would expect, after all, that a college … Continue reading →

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New Film and Media Studies Program

by Dr. Joyce F. Brown Posted on November 18, 2014

It is always exciting when FIT launches a new program. Any new program, after all, offers our students new perspectives, new career direction, new opportunity. But it was particularly exciting this semester when FIT welcomed 25 students as charter members … Continue reading →

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