Shifting paradigms: Competencies for 21st century retail/merchandising graduates
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The first national meeting of textile and clothing professors took place in Madison, Wisconsin in June 1959. With a mission to advance excellence in education, scholarship and innovation, and their global applications, the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) is a professional and educational association of scholars, educators, and students in the textile, apparel, and merchandising disciplines in higher education.
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The ITAA Meta-goals (MGs) prescribe a framework of discipline-specific, disciplinegeneral and professional skills supporting the development of competent professionals. The MGs were developed in 1994-95 by the ITAA Curriculum Development and Review Committee (CDR), using input from membership at a town hall meeting at the 1994 annual conference. A revised version was developed by the CDR committee with feedback from ITAA members and industry professionals and adopted by the ITAA Council (ITAA Meta-goals, 2008).