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EISJ Committee | SOF

About

The Parsons School of Fashion EISJ Committee was formed in the Fall Semester of 2020 and is composed of Full Time Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Staff and Students. The committee also has a seat at the Parsons wide committee for Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice. The committee operates under a shared governance model to ensure an inclusive process within our work. This takes shape in rotational leadership responsibilities for all members of the committee.

The School of Fashion EISJ Committee operates as a support system of accountability for the School of Fashion’s organization and committees. The work that has been achieved this year was realized as a collective effort of all members of our community, including the following School of Fashion committees; School Leadership Committees (SLC), School Curriculum Committee (SCC), External Partnership Committee (EPC) and the Research, Scholarship & Creative Practice Committee (RSCP).

A Message From Dean Ben Barry (2021)

When people think of fashion education, they think of Parsons!

Our school has a renowned international reputation for creative and rigorous pedagogy that prepares students to assume leading roles in the design and business of fashion. This reputation attests to the brilliance of our faculty and staff, and the originality of our students and alumni.

Since we started teaching the next generation of fashion leaders over a century ago, the fashion industry and world has changed. There has been a deep questioning of how our field reinforces the continuing legacies of settler colonialism and trans-atlantic slave trade, and there is a deep desire to create an industry that redresses this harm and grounds transformative justice.

Within this context, the time has come for us to answer some very important questions. "What do we want our purpose to be as a school? In the fashion industry? In the world?"

Over the 2021-2022 academic year, the School of Fashion will be asking our community these very questions in order to develop a revised mission statement and guiding principles, as well as identify concrete actions to move our new vision into practice. This initiative, VisionSOF: Reimagining Our Purpose, will be led by a working group of SOF students, staff and faculty who will engage their peers, colleagues and alumni to understand what we as a community want our purpose to be.

Key Milestones

The following represents key initiative milestones:

Launch VisionSOF website: November 8, 2021
Conduct working group nominations: November 8-16, 2021
Announce working group participants: Week of December 13, 2021
Launch working group: February 1, 2022
Conduct Stakeholder Survey: February 17-28, 2022
Announce findings and share report: May 2022
Faculty/Staff retreat: June 2022
SLC launch new language + action items: Fall 2022

VisionSOF Working Group

Purpose

The VisionSOF Working Group will facilitate the process of creating the renewed guiding principles, mission and concrete actions.

Representing various SOF constituencies, the working group will develop and launch stakeholder surveys, analyze and discuss the aggregated and anonymized results, and generate insights that will be turned into tangible outcomes.

The working group will also draft, solicit feedback on, and share a final report detailing the SOF guiding principles, mission and concrete actions.

The VisionSOF Working Group will begin its work at the beginning of the Spring 2022 semester. There will be once or twice monthly required 60-minute meetings, beginning the last week in January 2022 through the first week in May 2022. Participants will review and analyze collected data, as well as share insights in the aforementioned meetings.

Members

The EISJ Committee is made up of a committee of rotating members.

Contact

Email: eisjsof@newschool.edu