Civility Week 2023

October 10–13, 2023 The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosts Civility Week, a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of FIT’s civility initiative. The initiative is aimed at engaging our community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning in a higher education environment. FIT encourages our community to […]

Civility Week 2023

October 10–13, 2023 The Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hosts Civility Week, a week of activities, talks, and workshops aimed at achieving the goals of FIT’s civility initiative. The initiative is aimed at engaging our community in a discussion of respectful ways of living and learning in a higher education environment. FIT encourages our community to […]

A Fashion Stylist Panel

Katie Murphy Amphitheatre Pomerantz Art and Design Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

The Fashion Business Management Department in collaboration with the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion presents A Fashion Stylist Panel. Come out and hear from a panel of young stylists who have impacted the styling industry within the early years of their careers with celebrity client lists that have a pulse on today. Panelists Ty […]

DEISJ General Education Category: An Information Session

Virtual event

Join Carla J. DuBose-Simons, PhD, assistant professor of history, Westchester Community College, and Arnaud Lambert, PhD, associate professor of sociology and anthropology, Jamestown Community College, for this 60-minute webinar overviewing the new SUNY Diversity Equity Inclusion and Social Justice (DEISJ) General Education category. These two SUNY DEISJ fellows will review the learning outcomes and discuss […]

‘NEGRITA’ Documentary Screening with Q&A

John E. Reeves Great Hall Conference Center, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, NY, United States

https://youtu.be/nuJve4FMXFQ?si=fOiKI6TxxloF-WT3 NEGRITA, the debut documentary film from director Magdalena Albizu, interrogates the cultural prejudice and presumptions surrounding the lives of Afro-Latina women in America. Albizu, a self-described negrita, explores an unconscious ideology of anti-Blackness in which both American and Latino cultures perpetuate a false narrative of Black as undesirable otherness. Through family pictures, childhood videos, […]