This summer the School of Design and Human Environment became the newest school of the Oregon State University College of Business.
While the process has involved a lot of change, as we pass the halfway mark of fall term SDHE students and faculty are settling in to their new home, and gaining a lot of attention for the great work they’re doing.
Earlier this month the Portland Business Journal looked at how the 104-year-old school is using the shift to its advantage.
Writer Erik Siemers further investigated the idea in a blog post detailing his reporting on SDHE:
More than just an inter-campus shuffling of the deck, Associate Dean Leslie Burns said the shift will give the school more resources, better opportunities to commercialize its research and better link the program with Oregon’s robust footwear apparel industry.
SDHE students were attracting attention before the school year even started.
Back in August we wrote in this space about DAMChic, a student fashion magazine which grew out of an SDHE summer class.
DAMChic was featured on the front page of the Corvallis Gazette-Times earlier this month, highlighting the talent and ingenuity of the students in putting together the magazine.
“With a zero-dollar budget, we pretty much used all of our own things,” Echols said.
With a class full of apparel and merchandising majors, however, insufficient clothing rarely is a problem.
“We have pretty big closets to pull from,” Echols said.
We look forward to seeing all the great things in store in the coming terms and years as the partnership continues to grow, evolve and improve.
