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Professional Development Programs at The Cornell School of Hotel Administration Celebrate 75 Years of Leadership: 1928 - 2003 |
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ITHACA, NEW YORK (Dec. 12, 2002) – The Cornell School of Hotel Administration is celebrating 75 years of educational leadership in the hospitality industry by looking into the future with their 2003 Anheuser-Busch Professional Development Program (PDP).
In 2003 courses will be offered not only at the Cornell campus in Ithaca, NY, but also for the first time in Los Angeles, New York City, and Brussels.
“In addition to expanding geographically, we have also dramatically revised the format and content of our professional development courses,” says Cornell Director of Executive Education Thomas J. Kline, “in response to changing world conditions and to better serve our corporate clientele.”
Weeklong classroom sessions have been reformatted into three-day modules Kline says, “because hotel management professionals just can’t spend weeks at a time away from their properties.” Kline says the same thinking led to offering
classes in Los Angeles, New York City and Brussels.
In each location, courses are taught by Cornell's Executive Education faculty, and the coursework reflects many elements of the School of Hotel Administration's undergraduate and graduate degrees.
Professional development classes are offered in three tiers, designed to meet the needs of entry-level hotel professionals, managers of individual service areas, and senior managers with property-wide responsibilities.
Some attendees pursue a full certification program in one of 18 specialty areas, while others bring specific business challenges for discussion in the intense think-tank atmosphere generated by the classroom activities.
New courses this year stress the need for strategic agility in the challenging global business environment and the need for new skills and new tools to succeed in increasingly competitive conditions.
“Our courses present new management styles that reflect new realities in the marketplace,” Kline says. “Twenty years ago you didn’t hear much about building teams in management because there was an autocratic top-down system. That’s all changed and continues to change. We are thinking about where this industry will be in 5, 10, or 20 years, and helping our attendees to get themselves in a position to win under those scenarios.”
Kline says that the global scope of the PDP brings very high levels of interaction into the classroom. “When you have professionals from all over the world comparing notes and sharing strategies, you become very highly focused on specific problems and solutions. The hospitality professional comes into the program wanting to know what to do differently tomorrow. We help them acquire tools and knowledge that they can apply immediately to their own situations.”
The School of Hotel Administration was America's first collegiate course of study in hospitality management. The only hotel school in the Ivy League, it is recognized as the preeminent institution of hospitality management education, and its graduates are leaders of major hotel companies, trade associations, and educational institutions.
Registration is now open for classes scheduled for Spring and Summer 2003. For more information visit www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/execed. Email: exec_ed_hotel@cornell.edu; Fax: 607 255-8749; Phone: 607 255-4919; The Office of Executive Education, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University; 149 Statler Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-6902, U.S.A.
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Contact Information:
Fax: 607 255-8749
Phone: 607 255-4919
The Office of Executive Education, School of Hotel Administration, Cornell University; 149 Statler Hall, Ithaca, New York 14853-6902, U.S.A.
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With 60 full-time teaching faculty, the Cornell Hotel School has the world's largest group of scholars focused on hospitality service-oriented management. Many large global hospitality companies are actively involved with our faculty for executive education and training, as well as research and consulting. As a result, the Hotel School is the hospitality industry's "think tank." |
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