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The Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design

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The Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design averages over 400 undergraduate students and more than 50 graduate students. To learn more about the focus of the department, read our common purpose statement. We offer the following academic programs:

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The Department promotes success among its faculty, students and alumni through high standards and expectations:

  • Our programs share a common responsibility to teach within a human ecological framework and to give considerable attention to environmental ethics and social responsibility within the disciplines and professions we represent.
  • Our faculty members share a commitment to excellence in scholarship in its many diverse forms including discovery, integration, application, and teaching.
  • Our students in all programs are encouraged to become active learners and take advantage of diverse learning experiences including internships, study abroad, field trips, and study tours.

These high standards have resulted in our programs receiving national recognitions, our students and faculty winning numerous national awards, and our graduates earning top positions in national companies across the globe.

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ATID News

College names 15 Outstanding Seniors
The College of Human Ecology named 15 Outstanding Seniors at the college’s Graduation Honors and Student Awards Celebration at 4 p.m. Friday, May 11, in the Leadership Studies Building on campus. The students and their programs are: • Joanna Howard – apparel marketing. Joanna plans to move to New York City to start a career [...]
Students earn graduation honors
At the college graduate honors and student awards celebration Friday, May 11, students will receive summa cum laude, magna cum laude and cum laude cords to wear at graduation the following day. Those earning summa cum laude honors graduate with a cumulative grade point average of 3.95 or higher during their academic career grade at [...]
Engage, imagine advises ATID symposium speaker
Lee Moreau was speaking at the annual Apparel Textiles and Interior Design Student Symposium but his advice spread across work and lifestyle boundaries: • Keep your eyes open. “Engage in the world around us…music, the environment, food, the Kardashians.” • Use your imagination. Innovation is a team sport, he said, explaining some of his company’s [...]

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College of Human Ecology
Kansas State University
119 Justin Hall
Manhattan, Kansas 66506
+1 (785) 532-5500

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