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Bee-Education Project Takes Flight
Bees will find a home on campus next year as part of our sustainability efforts. FIT Hives, a bee-education project developed by students Shona Neary, a Fine Arts major and Sarah Langenbach, a...
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Bookends: MFA Illustration Exhibition
Maria Carluccio The remarkable ability of illustration to tell complex, moving stories is on full display at “Bookends,” this year’s exhibition of visual theses by 11 students graduating from FIT’s...
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Ready for a New Semester
We are all just returning from our winter break—brief for some, a bit longer for others, a welcome respite for all. It is the start of a new semester, a time I always find exciting. We come together,...
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Every time I turn around, it seems, I learn about another exciting project taking place here on campus. With such a dynamic faculty and resourceful student body, it should not surprise me. One good...
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FIT Grows a Pair of Baby Shoes
If you had told me when I first arrived at FIT—almost 20 years ago—that during my tenure, FIT students will be creating their own color dyes from plants they grow on our terraces, developing knitting...
View ArticleFIT Team Wins, Again
One of the great pleasures of my job is that I get a first-hand view of the always-inspiring and innovative work FIT faculty and students create here on a regular basis. But sometimes, even I am...
View ArticleFIT Students Empowering Change
For years, I have been bragging about FIT students’ talents, their high degree of focus and ambition—their distinctive ability to learn and accomplish so much within their tight curricular boundaries...
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Time Magazine Essay
On the occasion of my 20th anniversary as president of FIT, Time.com asked if I would contribute my thoughts on leadership—which I was happy to do. My essay was posted recently and I am delighted to...
View ArticleBridging Cultures with Language
About a dozen people seated in small separate groups, scattered throughout the room, were deep in conversation. There was occasional laughter—and if you listened closely, you heard a jumble of...
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Activists in the Making
FIT Hives began as a proposal at the 2016 CGI U Fifty years ago, 20 million Americans from across the nation—20 million—took part in the first Earth Day. That is one-tenth of the population of the...
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