No. Okay. Yes. So hello everybody and welcome to the Lerner College of Business and Economics. Before we get started this evening, let me provide some quick housekeeping instructions. First, you'll note that we're all muted so that we'll use the Q and a function for questions. You can open the Q and a function that should be found either on the bottom of your screen or on the top of your screen, depending upon the device and configuration that you have with you. So let's go ahead and get started. I'm Jack Brody and I'm the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Programs. And I'm going to be your host today. Before we get into the hospitality portion of this presentation, let me just provide a quick brief overview of the college. There are five things that I want everybody to walk away knowing. Five things that we believe differentiate the Lerner College from other. Business schools, and we call this the UD learner advantage. First off, ui is a great place to be an undergraduate. We have 17 thousand undergraduates and only 4 thousand graduate students. As a result, the primary focus is on our undergraduates, which includes our student clubs, are social events, our student life sports internships, just to name a few. Now I taught at NYU for a number of years and it's a very fine school. But there the numbers are reverse. The primary focus was on graduate students and graduate programs, which had a detrimental impact on the environment for undergraduates. Second, learner has high-quality programs and faculty. We are AACSB accredited, which is the gold standard for a business school accreditation. And we're highly ranked in the top 100 schools, which when you consider there's over 2 thousand programs is quite a feat. Learners also large enough to offer you many choices of majors, minors, internships and other experiential learning opportunities. But we're also small enough to be a very personal place with small class sizes. Personal advisor in tutoring and Career Services to make sure that you're successful. And five location. New ARC is a small college town, close to major urban hubs, a Wilmington, Philly, New York, and DC. So you get that small town college feeling with easy access to major urban centers, which I personally think is the best of both worlds. An example of how we're small enough is that we have professional advisors who work one-on-one with our students, monitoring and helping to provide guidance, interventions when needed, to help our students stay on track and graduate in four years. And our four-year graduation rate is above the 75th percentile. What's puts us in the top of all universities in terms of your completion, which I know is very important to your parents. You also get to know your advisor very well. We often hear from our graduates about the lasting impact our advisors have had on their, on their lives. And we find that very gratifying. We have mostly small class sizes and the college with most cat between 3555. While we have a very small number of large lectures of about a 100 to a 150. You're never going to have a 500 or thousand. See accounting class that you can find as some other state institutions that are in neighboring states. I won't say who full-time faculty teach over 90% of our classes. And we generally have a few adjuncts teaching, but only where their expertise and specialization is needed. So you're going to get to know your faculty very well as well. An example of how our large enough as we have, I didn't count today, but I believe we have about 18 majors. And I know most of you are here for the hospitality business management or hospitality industry management programs. But you can also double-major and over a third of our students will choose to double major. And if you don't know your major After the presentation or the other, or the other. Visits you make to learner. Business undeclared is absolutely a great way to start out. You're no disadvantage and you haven't tell the sophomore year to declare a major. So you can always pick business undeclared, but make sure you choose business undeclared in the business school. Did not declare university studies or general undeclared because you want to be in the business school. I'll give you, I'll tell you a secret. It's much easier to stay in the business school once you're here than if you're outside the business school and you have a bad freshman semester because you're going to use to school, then you want to transfer and it's harder. So always apply to the business school if you think this is where you want to be. Another example of how, of how were large enough, as we have a large number of miners, 15 minors. And you can see everything from advertising, beverage management, all the way down to sports management and trust management. Many of our students had both a major and a minor or to minors. This allows our students to tailor their programs of study based on their own interests and passions. So you could major in hospitality and minor in economics or sports management, Trust Management, relay. We have a lot of options within the college for you. Many of our programs are the result of industry partners. Partnerships. Trust management's a recent example where a few years ago that trust Banking Association and realize that their trust bankers all look like me, ready to retire, excuse me. And they had no bench of newer trust bankers to fill us a coming shortage. They came to us and asked us to develop a program for trust banking, which we have done. And I'm pleased to say that we have almost a 100%, we had a 100% placement for our students with interests, banks. And it's a great career for those of you interested in law, finance, and accounting. Now that's just one example. Hospitality programs are another great example of our close partnership with industry. And we receive a lot of support from the Marriott Corporation for these programs. And most of our programs have real-world projects or internships as part of the curriculum, which we believe is very important. And it's also the reason why our students are in high demand. By corporate recruiters. We have over a 95% placement rate that I'll show you in a minute. And hospitality hasn't even higher placement rate. And some of our experiential learning centers I have put up here for you. But if you look down to the bottom of my bottom left is our beat, another restaurant and our Marriott courtyard hotel, which are learning laboratories for our students, where they get real-world hands-on experience, which we all but we all know is very important. We also have a very strong commitment to diversity within the Law College. Two of our faculty members not pictured here, these are students, are world renowned researchers and teachers in these fields were proud to be leaders into the research regarding diversity, inclusion and gender equity. Very important topic as we all know and critical for organizational success today, our students are invited to participate in our learner Diversity Council, which has monthly lunch and learn sessions. And our world-famous Women's Leadership Institute works with student groups and offers forms, an annual summits and invites our students to attend and participate. Learn. College is the only college that has its own fully staffed, dedicated Career Services Center. And as you can see here, we offer a variety of services. One-on-one career coaching is available. You'll notice that over 24 thousand pay jobs and internships where in our system in 2019, we have a number of networking and recruiting events year round. And one thing that we think is quite distinctive as our learner executive mentoring program, which the hospitality students participate in. In this program, we bring in senior executives, ten to 15 years of experience, often 20 or more. And we match up our students based on their interests with the mentor to help the student have a chance to talk to somebody who's an expert in the field, who has come up through the ranks, who understands what it's like to be somebody in that field and can help guide our students. It's been extremely successful. We have mentors coming out of the wall who want alumni mentors who want to participate. And we have this for our sophomores and above. And it doesn't require any particular grade point average. If you want a executive manner, you just let our career services office now and we will make a match for you. As I mentioned, over 95% of our students are employed, are pursuing further education upon graduation. Actually get three months after graduation. And we hear from almost 90% of our students. I think it's around 86%, which means we know, we hear from all of our students what they're doing. So we're very confident in this 95% employment rate, as I'll show, as Hospitality will show you, their rate is even more impressive. So I'm pleased to introduce. Let me, let me take the focus and turned back to hospitality. And I'm pleased to introduce Dr. Sri. Belladonna, who is the chair person and a professor of hospitality business management. And we will walk you through the hospitality programs. Also with us is Dr. Das, who is the academic advisor for Hospitality Business Management. Dr. Andre et hard, our associate dean for undergraduate programs. And Dr. Cheryl Klein, our deputy dean and arrow mark, Chair of hospitality management. So I'm going to ask Dr. Bell, dona, have you turned on your camera? Yes. You have eyes to see you. And why don't you Take it away. Thank you, Doctor Brody. Thank you all. Good evening. And it's a it's a it's an honor for me to tell you all about our programs. I'm Sri belladonna professor and I'm also the department chair. I've been here at UT for 16 years and these have been very, very memorable 16 years that I've spent here. We have two majors for the most part in hospitality. The first method is the hospitality business management major. And the focus of this major is essentially to enable students to learn how to create, develop, and deliver superior guest experiences to guests. It's very experienced, driven in the way it works. We focus on hotels, restaurants, and events. And much of the skills that you would learn in this major can be ported to other industries as well. Especially because we are very focused on the aspects of the experience economy here. The second major is the Hospitality Industry Management major. This is the major that involves analytical skills. We have many of our students who to take on a more analytical side and develop interests in those areas, especially areas like real estate finance, Digital Marketing, and Revenue Management. Next slide, please. So what is it like to be a student here at UT? All program is a very dynamic program in terms of connecting students to various opportunities with industry folk and executives. We have student clubs and I'll be talking more about the student clubs that down. But you can see here, we send students to the Chicago, the National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago every year. Last year. This year was the only one we haven't sent because of the pandemic. We have always sent three to four students annually to Los Angeles for the American logging investment summit, where they meet with top people in real estate finance to connect with companies that many of our students have gotten, gotten in. Great joy starts to their carriers from this particular conference there now the conference in the real estate side is the Hunter investment conference in Atlanta where we send to students annually. Students also go to the New York Hotel Show, which is arguably one of the more most prominent adult shows in the world. All we send them to connect with a range of recruiters and also work with several work, your work and study in educational settings like seminars, et cetera. The band fi, scholastic tour has been something that we've done consistently. Be sent students to Europe where they actually, it's an all expenses paid trip to experienced wines. And know the background related to that. Next slide, please. So what about our department? Well, large enough to lead, small enough to care. Just like how Dr. Brody mentioned much about the Lerner College. We grew this way. We have been at top ten Program for quite some time. But let me just give you a general idea about some of the things that substantiate why we're large enough can lead and small enough to care. For instance, we have top plate's faculty. We have faculty who have ranked in the top 25 in terms of research productivity, prominence. And we also have faculty who are connected to and recognized by industry at several levels. Small class sizes. Just like how Dr. Brody said, we're consistent. We have our classes are between ten to 50 students on average. You will know us and we will know each one of you if you are part of our program or advisement is one-on-one. And one of the things that we really take a lot of pride in is connecting students to industry through the hospitality Career Fair and networking events. The hospitality Career Fair has been in standing for many years. It is run out of our department where we bring some of that best company hospitality companies in the US. Marriott hired. I can give you all a list of companies that come here. Special care is taken in organization of this fair. We also have to networking events that we do one in the fall, one in the spring semester where students can get to know recruiters and, and, you know, get questions answered about opportunities that will be coming up. We have actually conducted a networking given, given this fall, given the economic downturn, we have made sure that we've kept in touch with recruiters and maintain that focus. Several leadership opportunities. One is the arrow marks colors program. A remark generously contributed to this program that enables students to work, travel, and even involve and engage themselves and research activities if they want to. Several of our organisations, we have several organizations in hospitality manage those map of organisations like the club Managers Association of America, the Hospitality Club. All You Need Is Love is a club which we runoff, we de novo wheres students work on a bakery products sum. We provide that to readies up from the profits that come from that. We also have other clubs like the National Society for minorities in hospital already and the Eta Sigma Delta club. We're also very well-known for our study abroad programs, something which I'm going to talk about in detail in the next coming slide. We do lots of programs and different parts of the world. And in the end, we'll look at that last statement that it addresses the fact that we bring the industry to students. It takes students to the industrial pre. We bring alumni into our classroom and like how Dr. Brody instead, we have the Paul Weiss Speakers Series where we've invited some of the leaders in the industry including Bell Marriott, who's been here on campus for us. And a lot of these opportunities enables students to see and visualize what exactly are the career options that they can get into once they graduate. Thank you, Jack, next slide, please. Internships. One of the things we really pride ourselves on is the fact that students should have some level of experience before they start speaking with recruiters for the final positions after graduation. Students in the major average three to four internships. B, just like how the career fair and the networking events, facilitators or students have been gone for internships to remark Deloitte, pursuit of Marriott, a force, Maria digital as well. Hvs for hospitality, real estate finance, and also several operational level positions in Hyatt, Hershey and Wegman's. Thank you, Jack. Next line. Now this is study abroad, which I said that I will be expanding on. We take a lot of pride in having three abroad and making sure that students actually get to see other parts of the world. It really improves their perspective and look at hospitality from a global angle. Our students have gone to, we have programs that go to Australia or New Zealand. Dumped Academy in Barbados. We've done South America, and we've also done South Africa. Of course, may if our programs are also to Europe, which we do, Italy and Austria, that's one of the summer programs that we conduct. These programs are very valuable to students in many of our students take to them because it improves their broadens their perspective in terms of what the industry is. It's people-oriented industry and getting a global perspective here. Extraordinarily valuable. Next slide, please. Now for those yellow success by numbers, we are very proud that 97% of our graduates get employed or for euro pursue higher education. One of the things about our program is waste. Arab, the average salary for the program with about 26,047, you can actually rounded off to $47 thousand. This is for hospitality business management papers. We are 20% above the average Hospitality Business Management Program when it comes to average salaries. So the top employers remark, Marriot, height v0 about many of our students have joined married at management training level in Voyager program. They have joined in married digital thereof. We have lots of our students who have gone into events, special, special events, of course, restaurant supervision, sales and sales and catering management. Next slide, please. As for the hospitality industry management made it This is the analytical major. Our average salary is in the range of 49 thousand and above. The typical employs for this have been real estate companies, as well as some operational level companies which have corporate offices like Mario digital and hide types of job titles that students have gone into. Our managing accounts, account managers, sales and catering, sales managers. And of course, people in real estate finance, like real estate finance analysts. Thank you. Jen. Looks like bees. Chuck, would you like to go? Thank you, Dr. belladonna. What I'd like to do now is introduce our students who are here to answer your questions. And I'm going to ask them to turn on their cameras and leave them on. And why don't we start out with Jessica Gelman and just cut you want to introduce yourself actually, I think I have a slide for you. And then you can introduce yourself. Hi everyone. I'm sentience Jessica. I'm from our New Jersey. I'm currently a senior in the hospitality business management major. I'm going to have a minor in entrepreneurship, just listed some of my campus involvement. So I'm currently the chairwoman of the learner student advisory board. So what that is is me serve as a liaison between the faculty, the deans, and the students, a learner who claimed some really cool events. And we also do some cool tabling and the business buildings. So if you're on campus, you will see us around involved in a professional business for journey here on campus. I'm also an NES leader, which was a really cool new program BY university is implemented to make freshmen feel more welcome. We serve as a virtual mentor for them. Then I also do great life, my dance team and I do the learner executive Mentoring Program, which was mentioned before. Like you just look it up. Yeah, next up we'll gave Hello everyone. My name is Gabe Castro and I am from old CBER, Connecticut. I'm a hospitality business management major. And for study abroad, as Dr. built on was talking about earlier. One of them that I went on was to spring break cruise ship management said abroad with Dr. Schwartz. And that was paired with an online class. And so it was a really good experience to get the classroom experience as well as doing the hands-on experience for during spring break, during my sophomore year. And on campus, I am the president of an all-male identifying a capella group on campus where we make music for the UT community. And it's a really great time. I'm also the new member coordinator for all of the groups of a cupola on campus. And then more hospitality focused. I am the road rally Chair of the club Managers Association of America, where I plan little excursions to different clubs each semester. And so members of the club get to experience actual resorts and golf clubs and yacht clubs and all these different types of clubs that students get to see with their own eyes instead of just reading about. And then also as Jessica mentioned earlier, the hospitality nest, which helps freshman, you know, get more acclimated to life here. Iud specifically with hospitality management, so I'm also a leader for that as well. Great, thanks. Gape and card or your next? Hello everyone. My name is Carter Vaughn and I'm a junior hospitality business management major with a minor in international business studies. So some things I'm involved in on campus, I'm involved in Honors Program. I'm the treasure for club Management Association of America, which gave just mentioned on it's a great opportunity for those who are trying to look a little bit more into the country club and Yacht Club side hospitality. I'm the Events Coordinator for people for Puerto Rico, which is an organization that aims to increase the awareness and funds for those that are in Puerto Rico with the recent hurricanes and natural disasters. And the parliamentarian for the Cultural Programming Advisory Board, which tries to provide culturally enriching programs across can't just that the year. And also the head of the Create department for the new magazine. I'm some things that I'm involved in with learner. I'm, as well as you can see a learner ambassador, but I'm also part of the letter Diversity Council. So I worked with Dr. Jennifer Joe when we try to create events and create information opportunities for those and learn to kinda feel like they're a little bit more included and tried to diversify the space. And also, I'm a mentor. Can each one reach one program which is house by the senate to black culture, as well as a resident assistant and reading Hall. Right now I'm in Jake's may call them. Excellent. Thank you. So what I'm going to ask everybody to do now is to please type your questions into the Q and a box. And I've got a couple of questions that I know get asked frequently. So I'm going to ask our students to start off with a couple of my questions. So Jessica, why don't I start off with US and you've had the most time to rest. Is why did you choose u d and the hospitality program in particular. Yeah, so I chose UCI after looking through different competitors school. So I was really in-between Penzias and Delaware and I actually came for one of the info sessions here are Delaware. And the reason I actually chose this majors because at the info session, it was held in Gita Nova. And they give us like a really nice tour around the kitchen. And they did a nice like PowerPoint Chow. And I actually heard from a bunch of students like us hearing early great experiences. And I was able to meet some of the professors. And I thought the professors really super kind people. And they really want to end. You'd actually be able to talk to them. They wanted to get to know you. So I really think I pitch this major and the school, just because of the people and the faculty. That's great. Thank you to Africa and have a final question to you. So the reason why I chose UG is hospitality program is sort of similar to just because I was looking at a couple different schools, including UMass Amherst as well as temple because I knew that I wanted to do hospitality specifically. So I was looking at some of the more notable programs in this Atlantic northeast area. And the two main reasons why I chose UG. The first one is because it has a great location that's really close to a lot of major cities, which makes it easy for internship opportunities. And then the second reason why I chose u dy, because when I came to for a tour, I had the general tour of u d, and then I went to Rob Hall which is where which is the hospitality hub. And I knocked on the door and I went in and I I taught, I was very fortunate to talk to Donna, who's actually on this call and she took my family of six and me on a three hour tour of the restaurant and and gave us a very long conversation about about what Udi has to offer and why it's such a great program. And right after I left that I made the decision to come to UT literally right after I did that. So and I just knew it was going to be a great fit and really help just make that more kind of as great. A donna, Do you want to just turn your video on and say, Hi, there are one. Hope everybody's doing well today. Let us know if you have any questions ordinary or you. Thanks. Donna Carter saying question for you. Sure. I would say the biggest reason I chose evening as a whole is because I'm from the New York error area and my older brother actually was in the accounting program before me. And he always raved about how much learner had done for him and how much he enjoyed it. My senior year of high school, I actually thought I was going to go into the engineering program, but I had a great opportunity to talk to Dr. Klein at way. She explained to me kind of what the hospitality industry was and a little bit more specifically what you all were doing. Iud. And it just really got me excited to see the different avenues of hospitality that there were at that time. I kind of just associated hospitality with hotels and restaurants. But she really kind of helped me understand that hospitality is in everything that we do, whether it's in a hospital setting, a corporate setting, or in your traditional hotels and restaurants. And that really got me excited to see what I could kind of achieve if I went into this major. So I made the switch and I never regretted it. Well, that's great. Thank you. Gave I think we have a question from somebody who wants to know about that cruise ship sampling rate trip? Yes. Does it for credit or just just for experience? Yeah. So good question. It is for credit. So their hospitality, 39 de Haas threonine is the name of the class. It's called a cruise ship management. And when I do the class, it was it was too credit's worth of online classes. So basically each week, just you guys are all going through online classes or some sort of class similar to that now. So it's pretty similar to that. You do like a module each week and you do some readings, activity specific to the cruise ship management industry. And then during its only offered in the spring because during spring break is when we go on I believe it is the carnival fantasy I want to say or, or, no, sorry. It's called the anthem of the seas actually is its royal Caribbeans anthem of the seas. And we spent a week there where in the morning we get to speak to different people on the on the cruise ship and and how their specific job works and all the different inner workings of the, of the cruise ship. And then it's a nice combination of learning from from the people who work on the ship, as well as getting to enjoy the trip a little bit yourself. And so the actual online course component is two. And then the one other additional credit to make it a three credit course is for going on that trip. And then you have like this sort of reflective process where you write a paper about it and talk about why it was an educational experience and everything. And honestly, it was probably one of the best classes I've ever taken on campus for sure. And I learned a lot, thanks to Dr. Schwartz who was there with us for the class and also for the trip. So it was, it was a really, really great experience and I highly recommend it to anybody. You can do it. Excellent. Thank you. Gay. And I do know that doctor, if I think I'll throw this one to Dr. Bell going on. When students are doing internships. Student students can start doing internships right after the first year. We encourage people to go and start using their summers. And sometimes they don't want to take courses in the winter to get quick experience of yes. Straight out of the bad after the first you Well, that's great. Thank you. Now, just like I think you've had some internships, you want to talk about those. And so I actually when I'm a different route, so I decided a few years ago that I wanted to kind of try to real estate route. So I think it was the year after my freshman year here. Am I interned at a local brokerage in my town for residential real estate. And through that, I actually did some like we're marketing and social media little projects. And then after that internship, I decided I liked real estate. They kind of wanted to see on other sides of it, so I wouldn't commercial real estate. So this past summer, I actually interned for Lean associates in New York City and they saw the program. It was all virtual though. And through that, I was able to kind of see what they do on a daily basis and compare the commercial real estate vs. residential, select what's super great. But you were touching on before with hospitality is that you don't have to go into hotel and restaurant. Employers really love hiring hospitality students because. How to deal with customers. And we've had all these really good hands-on experiences such as the near you I want you to know goes we really know how to put in hard work and they love seeing that. So even though my internship was in commercial real estate, I still think everything I learned in us with super, super helpful employers definitely love to see that. That's great. Thank you. And gave you a number of internships, I believe. Yes, i have. So my first internship in the hospitality realm was actually in high school at a local hotel in my area. And then i want to getting hired after that to work there. But it was really great to get my feet wet just like learn what has touted is really all about. And then once I started at UD, the fault, like Dr. Bo was talking about like right off the bat after the first year, after my freshman year, I then had an internship at a private golf club in Connecticut nearby where I live. And so I learned about golf course maintenance, about club member relations and, and of course operations and a lot, a lot of golf related stuff which was really cool. And it also, Also another thing that helped me to know that I wanted to test out clubs was doing the club Managers Association of America, club, like carter and I both had mentioned earlier. And for this past summer, I had a internship with Marriott International secured at there, but says to international headquarters as a revenue management intern after I took Dr. Schwartz just revenue management class. But unfortunately, that program was cancelled because of coded. And so that was really unfortunate. I was very excited for that. But I will be applying to that program again next summer. So I will keep you posted on how that is. Great. Thank you. Who know a car? We have some people who want to know what is what's your freshman year like what kind of courses and hospitality to start off with. Sure. So you take some of your general business classes like economics and your basics of business and economic and accounting. But also you take your intro to hospitality class, which is taught by Dr. client. That's who I had my freshman year. And you kinda goes over the different the realm of hospitality and what that includes, we go a little bit deeper into what it means to manage a hotel, restaurant side, country clubs. And that's also when we have a lot of speakers come in. So it's a great opportunity to kind of start thinking about what realm of hospitality you want to go into. More specifically, you also take classes and be de novos. So I had my breakfast lab the second semester of my freshman year. And you start to learn a little bit more about the culinary side and running the restaurant. And you also learn a lot about food safety, which is something that's very important and that's when you actually get your Cersei certification, which is something that's really beneficial to your academics, but also even in jobs, it's something that they really like to see when I'm applying and they're pretty impressed that we already have something like that. That's something that most adults don't even have yet. Well, that's terrific. Now, can you talk a little bit about beaten Nova and your experience with Eva Nova or award-winning restaurant. Sure. So like I said, I've done the breakfast lab, which was my freshman year, so that was from eight to 11. Once a week. So we were in the kitchen with Chef Joe and we're kind of learning how to prepare things, but we also learned about more the manager side. So the one thing that the hospitality program likes to say is we're not teaching you to be ships, but also kind of how to manage the kitchen area and make sure you're on top of what's going on. And then paired with that lab, we also learn more about food safety and how to run a safe kitchen and make sure you're meeting the regulations that are set by the different states. And then my sophomore year I did the lunch lab. So we're actually assisting with the buffet that's open to the public. So we are working in the front of the house, in the back of the house, learning how to serve guests in a formal manner, as well as in the back of the house, learning a little bit more advanced techniques in the kitchen. But we also have a chance to also managed that area as well as being host. So you aren't a lot of different skills that are going to help you out in the real world. That's great. Thank you. Josephine won't talk about your experience. Yeah. So I actually am in dinner live right now. Kind of a weird semester for that quarter touched upon the practice, lat and long slog. And I really loved lunch because it was kind of our first experience to do front end how service. So breakfast is definitely more. You're cooking in the kitchen. So it was really nice to have that experience where you get to come face-to-face with gas and actually communicate with on and all the guests that come are like, well, we super friendly and they want to hear like what you're doing in your classes. So it's really cool to get to rotate through all those positions. Then I'm into their library now, which is a little bit of a weird semester for it. But typically with dinner love, it's more of a formal setting. And he would do a really long link dinner service, you will learn about wines. You would do like appetizers, entrees, desserts. It's a really long like formal meal, so it's super cool to learn about that and how to do proper service trust in your uniform. And then you also do back and house for that. So you definitely get like a very well-rounded restaurant experience. Every class kind of building on each other and ultimately preparing for dinner Lab, which is like the hardest of all of them because you have to apply all your analogy to that cause it's all super fun and professors super nice and you get really close to low-cost Ainsley in these classes. That's excellent. Thank you. And I know that many of you have minors. Can you talk about how you chose your miners? Let's see where do I go to force gave, How about you? So I have two minors. The first one that I declared was after my first semester, freshman year, and that's an economics minor. My thought on that I'm very analytical person and I really like to look at numbers, but I really also like the operation side. So I stayed with the hospitality business management, but then I just added the economics minor and I had to take four additional classes in order to complete that minor. And I'm currently working on the last or second until the last one. But I decided that after I took my introduction to microeconomics class, which is required as Hospitality Business Management student your freshman year. And I just really fell in love with the class like I really liked it. And so then I decided to add the minor. And then the other minded that I have is spawn wellness management, which kind of goes hand in hand with the club Management Association of America. And so I get to learn with that class. I get to learn more about the up and coming wellness industry and how it connects to the hospitality industry and how it's becoming pretty prevalent now. With personal health and everything like that. Having trainers and having a lot of Jim operations at hotels and specific like athletic clubs, like it's a very interesting industry to me. And so I decided that I would declare that minor as well. And I was helped declared that through Dr. Alley parenting who I believe is either transitioning to being retired or fully retired. Not sure. But he he helped me a lot with that, so that was really helpful. That's great. Quarter. How about you? So once I have one minor, which is International Business Studies minor. And the way I kind of chose that one is because I know in hospitality we have opportunities to meet people from all over the world, whether it's in the hotel setting or the restaurant setting. So I'm really interested to see how hospitality was kind of changed or how it can be affected by that. So a lot of the classes that I take with that minor include international marketing or international economics and things of that nature. So you can kinda learn how other people think and how hospitality is affected by these things. Because ultimately, I would love to be able to work in some international capacity with hospitality. Excellent. Thank you. Dr. Bill, don't I soon as a question about the study abroad at our Swiss hotel school, study abroad experience can talk a little bit about that. Now, this relationship we have with Switzerland for years relationship essentially is that students can promote program, can usually keep this semester. Sophomore year. Courses recognized by US. Students typically get woken perspective, hospitality operations, their work, their first living there, since there's a lot of related experiences. Come back. I can say that every student I have met has come back with a very positive experience. They had gone through Switzerland. Switzerland, which are now the largest school school system of hospitality in Switzerland. So your microtrauma breaking up a little bit there. So either this or abroad for the Swiss. Switzerland is a semester abroad program. So I go again, would actually let me ask Shri, we're having a hard time with your microphone. Maybe Dr. client, come on and you could answer that question for us. During Dr. AB. Happy, Tim. So we as Dr. Donna said, we have an agreement within Swiss hotel school. It is the top Hotel School in Switzerland, and our students can choose to spend a semester abroad taking approximately 20 credits. I had the opportunity to go there and teach there. I can tell you the students live in a Hotel on the side of a mountain that's actually one mountain away from Davos in Switzerland. And they take courses in food and beverage management. They actually prepare to galas. And then they also take courses in things like German and other hospitality related courses. It is an incredible opportunity for student that wants to study abroad and see the Swiss style of hospitality. Of course, they have four days, whether in class, and then they have a three-day weekend. And many of our students choose the hop to train to Switzerland, excuse me, to Zurich, Switzerland. And then they travel all around Europe. So we are looking forward to continuing that opportunity for our students hopefully next year. And we usually have three or four students that do it every year. And then of course, those students from Switzerland. And we have students that come to study at Delaware. So our students in Delaware get to meet students from the Swiss hotel school. It's an exchange program and the cost is pretty much the same in studying in Switzerland as it is to study on the UT campus, with the exception of the airfare. Dr. Klein document. But I'm going to try you again. We'll see which higher Mike is doing. A couple of people have asked about what has, what has the effect of the pandemic than on the hospitality programs? Because it's so unfortunately, we're still we're still getting love breaking up. Maybe Dr. Klein I'm sorry, Dr. Bell down. I'm sure. I'm going to channel DR. bell down. And now we have been seriously impacted by the pandemic and you'll read the news. But let me tell you, particularly for the perspective students that are here right now, you want to thank your parents having you when they did, because when you start school next year, you're in the perfect position to be placed in the hospitality program because when the pandemic is over and it will be, there will be a huge opportunity for people working in the hospitality and travel industry. And you will be in the right place at the right time to get a job when it booms. So I know Jessica who's managed to find a job even during the pandemic, she did an internship online. Many of our students have done that the summer. They didn't get the internship they wanted, but they got a different internship online. We've, we've all learned to be flexible and we've all learned to pivot. Let me share with you there's one very famous restaurant company that doesn't recruit at many hospitality programs. There are actually based in Chicago and they recruit with us and they're doing an online internship where they're training our students who apply and get accepted to learn how to be restaurant managers. So we've made the best of the situation. I like to say we made lemonade with a lot of lemons, but it's a short-term thing and our industry will come back. It will come back stronger. Thank you, Dr. fine. Now I see we have a question about, is it possible to do a dual major with hospitality and let's say MIT the management area. And I can answer that one quickly. The answer is absolutely yes. Again, over a third of our students do double majors and you can double major with any program in the college. But you can also double major outside the college and in English or in a foreign language, and that's something that would interest you. So that's absolutely possible to do that. Jack, I think we lost your sound. Jack, I think we luster sound. Let me take over. There was a question about the event management minor. Event management minor is one of our most popular miners and we have many students that take that minor. I don't know if any of our current students are in that minor that are on the call, know. But I would like to talk about our major or hospitality business management major has a component that's a practicum. So if you're interested in event management, you would be in a hospitality business management major. And as part of that major, you work envied ANOVA and you'll get that experience in managing a restaurant. You do the logging module where you actually rotate through every position in the Marriott courtyard and you learn how to manage your hotel. Then you also do a practicum where you actually manage a live event, which is in our Adi ion, which has a beautiful space on our star campus. Dr. bill done actually started this practicum this year. And it's a very exciting way for students to actually experience running, operating a restaurant, operating a hotel, operating an event, and it builds your resume as a student. And then on top of that, our students do internships where they can further their experienced. So when these students graduate, they have a resume that's more than two pages long. Because they've had that experience not only learning the theory in the classroom, but also actually doing what they've learned the theory about and then going out there and getting their jobs. So I think students have a lot of opportunity to work in events. Alright. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. climb. Jessica, you You're the executive Mentor Program, I believe you can you talk a little bit about your experiences as with your executive mentor? Yes. So I've been in non-executive mentoring program for a little over two years right now. I don't know what that is. Is every learner student that wants to be in it. Git's not stop with a learner along and uniquely weak or monthly meetings with your mentor. So with the meetings, you can either meet them for coffee, yet food, or you could just do a phone call or Facetime and they're really there just to kind of guide you. So I know my mentor actually I'm works and catering at UD and she's one of the faculty members here. So she's definitely super-helpful with like applying to jobs that we center my resume, cover letters. If I ever have a career caution regarding LinkedIn and interview, literally anything or it could be a question from one of my classes because she actually was my major also. She's super helpful. She's always there to help me in the program. Super great too, because it's very organized. So we happily. And online page for it. So that's where you would submit your surveys each month and just to stay on top of the program. And then two times a year we have a big dinner or all the mentors and the mentees come together. Many sit at tables together and you get to meet everyone else's mentee and endure. So it's really great for networking. A lot of jobs and upcoming look through them and through the mentors. I'm just like a really great professional relationship to have even after college. Like I know, like I'm still gonna talks men enter once I graduate. I'm sure just been like a super great resource Arab. And she's always there if I need any sort of advice. That's great. Thank you. We're almost out of time. So I'm gonna start with Carter. When I go around car gave and Jessica, what do you like best about your experience at UD carter? Which one I bought you, sir. That's alright. I would say, you know what, the to only having two full years completed in college, I think that one thing the hospitality industry or the hospitality program has taught me is how to think on my feet. And I've found that I've been able to apply a lot of the things that we've learned in the classroom and the different things I'm involved in on campus and even outside of that. So for example, actually ended up having a webinar over the summer for different social justice issues. I've used a lot of the skills I had and we had over a 170 people on that same call that I was leading and the president of the university was there as well as other university officials. But I was really confident that I was going to be able to have it run smoothly because of the different things that I do classroom for my different professors and everything. So I just really appreciate everything that I've learned and I think it's really encouraging that I'm already using these skills even before I even graduated. That's great. Thank you. Carter gave I think that the my favorite part of the Hospitality Business Management Program so far has been as as Dr. Klein mentioned, I'm a little bit is the hands-on experience. So I'm going to need another once a week or twice a week or three times a week, whatever the the classes. And then getting to do a launch service, do at breakfast lab, do a dinner service and serve wine and do all this other stuff. And then to eventually do the hotel lodging module. I think it just it like further reinforces what you learned in the classroom so that it's like directly translatable to a job in the future. So like for example, like I just got hired as a bus or at a restaurant. And they I was scheduled for for training shifts and after the first day they were like, OK, you don't eat anymore training like you already know every day. And I was like, well, I mean, I kind of study this as, as as hospitality students, so I appreciate the fact that you are recognizing that. And so just having the hands-on experiences, honestly, the best part of it. I don't I don't think that there's many other majors at the university that that gives you that hands-on experience like the hospitality program does. That's great. Thank you. Gave and Jessica? Yeah. So my favorite thing IUD and within the major so far is definitely to people like I mentioned before. So whether it's your professors or your classmates, I've had nothing to create experiences with everyone within this major and within learner. Like I really feel like within learner and hospitality all the professors really want to get to know you and you put in as much effort as you can. So you get as much into it as you put into it. So basically if you want to be known pneumonia professors know you well enough to do is reach out which it on. And they're more than willing to talk to you to help you out with anything. And then classmates, since our costs are pretty small, because on learner, like learner clauses and has fallen causes are obviously smaller than some of the main university classes. I've had like a great opportunity to meet some of my closest friends through this major. And they're always there to help you with clauses. You do homework together, steady for big exams together. So definitely the people here as Greg dresser crop. I think we're just about out of time. Just to wrap up, I just want to remind everybody that when you're applying to the hospitality programs, you're applying to the programs within the Lerner College. The hospitality programs are a department within the Lerner College. So make sure you're looking for that when you're going through and looking at our applications. If you have other questions, please make sure please feel free to reach out to us anytime. You can email the hospitality Department directly. I suspect Donald will probably read those and be happy to answer any questions you might have. If you have any questions that you absolutely cannot figure out where to get answer, call me or email me Brody at u del.edu and write down that number cuz you're gonna needed at some point, area code 3025281505. That's my personal cell phone number. So please don't call me before eight or after 11. But you can text me at anytime and I'm pretty much a text and email junkies. You'll get a response really quickly from me. So if you can't figure out where to get a question answered, come to me. If I can't answer it, I'll figure out how to get an answer for you. So dash as a great example of how we're small enough. And so when you go to your next University, asked their dean for their personal cell phone number, see if you get it. So thank you very much. Thank you to all of our panelists, to Dr. Bell down into Dr. Klein, ever doctor ever hard, dr. das and everyone else who has been here to make this a great event. And thank you all for for watching And joining us and we look forward to seeing you in the fall. So take care, stay safe everybody. By now. Thank you.
Lerner Virtual Visit - Hospitality 9/24/2020
From Kimberly Ragan November 12, 2020
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