{"id":6566,"date":"2022-10-31T15:03:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T19:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=6566"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:12:03","slug":"fashion-merchandising-students-to-benefit-from-closing-the-gap-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/october-2022-sans-monthly-digest\/fashion-merchandising-students-to-benefit-from-closing-the-gap-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashion merchandising students benefit from Closing the Gap grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fashion merchandising students pictured with Dr. Bridget Clinton-Scott (center) from left, are: Justin Harrison (senior), De’Yona Willoughby (senior), Darienne Penn (junior) and Donzhane Lyons (senior).<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A recently awarded $100,000 Closing the Gap grant will aid Dr. Bridgett Clinton-Scott, an associate professor in UMES\u2019 Department of Human Ecology<\/a>, in her continuing effort to connect fashion merchandising students with alumni through a fashion entrepreneur mentorship program.  The grant is part of half a million in funding allocated among nine HBCUs to \u201cboost their fashion programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cThis is a semester-long program exposing students to fashion careers through firsthand experiential projects with alumni and other fashion mentors,\u201d Clinton-Scott said.  \u201cThe program also grooms students to enter into corporate positions with major fashion brands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, Clinton-Scott said, five fashion merchandising students (Nathan Dance, Aleecia Joof, Tamber Jackson, Kassidy Langham and Vante Thomas) participated in a yearlong Gap, Inc. apprenticeship program as a direct result of the grant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funded by ICON 360 x Gap, Inc<\/a>., students also apply their creative skills and knowledge in special projects exposing them to media production, product development and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Closing the Gap initiative was launched last year as a means of \u201cstrengthening educational opportunities for the next generation of Black, indigenous and other people of color fashion leaders\u2026to drive innovation within the fashion industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Stephens, agricultural communications and media associate, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, 410-621-3850, gcstephens@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photos by Todd Dudek, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, tdudek@umes.edu<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recently awarded $100,000 Closing the Gap grant will aid Dr. Bridgett Clinton-Scott, an associate professor in UMES\u2019 Department of Human Ecology, in her continuing effort to connect fashion merchandising students with alumni through a fashion entrepreneur mentorship program.  The grant is part of half a million in funding allocated among nine HBCUs to \u201cboost…Read more Fashion merchandising students benefit from Closing the Gap grant<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":96,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-october-2022-sans-monthly-digest","category-sans-monthly-digest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6566"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}