Psychology
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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Barry Karp interview, 1994 October 12, 1994 October 12
Item
Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.4.33
Scope and Contents
Psychology professor Barry Karp began at FIT in 1968 and was tenured in 1971. Shortly thereafter he became active in the FIT union. Around 1986 he became administrator of the Welfare Fund. Karp discusses changes in the department’s coursework and the introduction of classes such as the Psychology of Color. He talks about changes in the student body over his time at FIT and states that FIT has more non-traditional students than at its inception; many students are coming back to school instead...
Dates:
1994 October 12
Jeannette Jarnow interview, 1984 November 1, 1984 November 1
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Identifier: SC.FITA.3.20.4.9.12.2
Scope and Contents
This interview is with Jeannette Jarnow, the first chairperson of the Buying and Merchandising Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Jarnow describes her professional ascent at the department store, Abraham & Straus, up to 1944; when she took a brief break due to her first pregnancy. Jarnow describes the path that led her to seek out a teaching post at the Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Instead of offering Jarnow a professorial post,...
Dates:
1984 November 1