MIAMI (WSVN) – A new partnership aims to pave a pathway from the classroom to the fashion industry for some South Florida students.<\/p>\n
The Miami Fashion Institute<\/a> at Miami Dade College and the Miami School of Fashion & Design<\/a> announced they are teaming up. Together, they are offering new degree and scholarship opportunities to help graduates enroll in bachelor programs and qualify for major scholarships.<\/p>\n Local students expressed their excitement over the news.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s interesting, it\u2019s like another local door open, and everything here in Miami feels, like, very young compared to other cities, so it looks like just another big step in, like, the overall story for Miami,\u201d said fashion student Adrian Cubilla.<\/p>\n Hakan Baykam, president of the Miami School of Fashion & Design. said the goal of the partnership is to keep more creative talent in Miami and give students a clearer shot at turning their passion for fashion into a lifelong career.<\/p>\n \u201cI can launch my brand here, I can build a serious career here, close to the people and the community that helped me begin,\u201d said Baykam.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n \tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) – A new partnership aims to pave a pathway from the classroom to the fashion industry…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":426758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-426757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}