Steven Frumkin, Dean of FIT’s Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology, Dies
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Steven Frumkin, dean of the Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology at the Fashion Institute of Technology, died Thursday in Miami. The cause was COVID-19.
“With Dean Frumkin’s passing, we have lost a most valuable member of our community,” said FIT’s president, Dr. Joyce F. Brown. “Through his leadership, he not only earned the trust, affection, and respect of faculty, staff, and students, but also shaped the future of his school.”
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Frumkin led the Baker School, FIT’s largest, for eight years since 2002. His appointment marked a return to FIT for Frumkin, who was an adjunct assistant professor in the colleges Textile Development and Marketing program from 1994 to 2000.
As dean, he was the force behind the accreditation of the majority of the school’s programs by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs,