Shop girls to show girls: teaching resources on new york's working class for community college students ["shop girls to show girls" an interdisciplinary project intended to improve student…

The Fashion Institute of Technology received a $150,000 three-year Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program. The grant will support the "Shop Girls to Show Girls" initiative to develop new interdisciplinary teaching resources on New York's working class history for community college students. The project aims to provide essential historical context for students' chosen professions to better prepare them for 21st century careers. New curricula will enhance understanding of the industries students will enter and empower them to help improve those industries. By incorporating robust labor history into pre-professional coursework across disciplines, the initiative seeks to address needs identified through a prior pilot project at FIT to bring broader value for community college students.

Shop girls to show girls: teaching resources on new york's working class for community college students ["shop girls to show girls" an interdisciplinary project intended to improve student understanding of the historical contexts for the professional fields they are pursuing. The initiative is being developed to address needs initially identified by faculty during a pilot project at fit. The pilot revealed that the inclusion of robust labor history in pre-professional course curricula can have broad value for a diversity of disciplines at community colleges. "shop girls to show girls" is grounded on the premise that the humanities bring essential context and a deeper subject understanding to pre-profession studies. By learning about the historical influences that have shaped the professions they will enter, community college students will be better-prepared for the demands of the 21ST-century workplace. This knowledge will enhance their own careers and potentially empower them to improve the industries in which they are working.]