Colleges focused on high technology need a little fashion sense, Gov. Spitzer said yesterday.
Manhattan’s Fashion Institute of Technology, a SUNY school with two-year and four-year programs, produces innovators who rapidly adapt to the ever-changing fashion world, Spitzer said at the first Higher Education Commission meeting.
People in the technology sector, likewise, work in a fast-changing environment that demands creative thinking, he said.
“If we can develop [the FIT] model for other sectors, that is something we certainly want to build,” he said at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. “We need to teach innovation.
“Where will the next iPhone be created, by whom, and where will the skills needed to create it be taught?” Spitzer asked.
About half of the 418,000 students in the State University of New York system go to community colleges.