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  • Phyllis Shapiro

    Part-time Assistant Professor

    Email
    shapirop@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Phyllis Shapiro

    Profile

    Phyllis Shapiro has been a part-time faculty member in the School of Fashion since 2004. She has led teaching engagements in Merchandising Math, Retailing, Retail Buying, Business and Entrepreneurship, Fashion Industry Profiles and Import- Export. She is known as a highly effective lecturer with an outstanding reputation to lead exciting and enriching courses by creating an interactive classroom dynamic to enhance student learning and critical thinking.

    Her twenty-five plus year industry experience includes Director Positions with well-respected retail, wholesale and global sourcing companies.  Product areas have spanned women’s, men’s and children’s fashion. Currently, she is the owner and President of a boutique management consulting firm for the fashion design, retail and manufacturing industries.

    Phyllis has an undergraduate degree in Fashion Merchandising from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She also holds a Master of Arts in Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies from SUNY Empire State College. 


    Professional Affiliation

    • Online Learning Consortium
    • ASCD.org
    • eLearning Guild

    Recent Publications

    Author, “Creating an Active Learning Environment That Aligns to a Fashion Student’s Career Interests and Goals”, published in ProQuest Dissertation Publishing, (2016) 10116926 

    Online Learning Expert Contributor: http://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org/online-courses/computer-programming-classes/

     


    Research Interests

    fashion marketing, active learning, experiential learning, e-learning, educational technology for fashion learning


    Current Courses

    Retailing & Service Design
    PMFM 5070, Spring 2024

    Future Courses

    Entrepreneurship
    PMFM 5040, Fall 2024

    Past Courses

    Entrepreneurship
    PMFM 5040, Fall 2023

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