Diversity Grants Awarded

 

The President created an annual fund of $15,000 to encourage the development of educational projects, scholarly research, creative endeavors and professional activities that promote the Diversity Council’s goals of diversity, tolerance and inclusion. Below is a list of recent grant winners from 2008-2013.

2012-2013:

• Diversity and Globalization: Achieving more diverse teams, consumer communication, and leadership culture in global corporations – Stephen Kanlian, Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing and Management, Graduate Studies

• Poetry and Film – Madeline Millán and Pilar Blanco Ruiz, Foreign Languages

• Language and Learning at FIT: Celebrating the Stories of English Language Learners – Patrick Jackson and Sasha Graybosh, Writing Studio

2011-2012:

• LGBTQ and Ally Training –Vivian Chen and Cody Kirkpatrick, Department of Residential Life

• Women in Design-related Technology: Learning from Real-life Stories - Professors Elaine Maldonado, Director of the CET, and Karen Pearson, of Science and Mathematics

• Marriage Equality New York - Professor Ron Amato, Chairperson of the Photography department; Kevin Campo, Kendra Heisler, Beth Zink, Steven Walsh, Livia Glosikova and Loreal Prystaj, Photography major students.

 

2010-2011:

• A New DAWN: Disability Awareness Week Network - Office of Disability Services: FIT-ABLE – Elizabeth Mortensen and Joseph Plutz

• ARTSpeak - Fine Arts – Professors John Allen and Jean Feinberg

 

2009 – 2010:

• Foreign Born Faculty Panel - Professor Asli Gokhan, Chairperson of English and Speech

• FIT Diversity Oral Histories - Library - Professors Greta Earnest and Karen Cannell; Foreign Languages – Professors Isabella Bertoletti and James Cascaito; American History - Professor Daniel Levinson Wilk; Fashion Design – Professor Karen Scheetz

• FIT’s Heirloom Recipes: A Cross-Cultural Exchange - English and Speech – Professors Jean Amato, Amy Lemmon, Michael Hyde and Melissa Tombro; Educational Skills – Professor Charlotte Brown

 

2008-2009:

• Covering/Discovering - Alex Joseph, Communications and External Relations

• Photo Talks - Professor Jessica Wynne, Photography

• Dynamic Diversity - Professor Charlotte Brown, Chairperson of Educational Skills; Professor Brian Fallon, Director of the Writing Studio; and Madeline Meyerson, Counselor of the Academic Advisement Center.