ࡱ> /1.g bjbjVV 4 r<r<2222F20ZppppKKK$xZ;KKKKK;ppPK ppKp GjU f0_j8KKKKKKK;;KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK :  To: Ethlyn Williams, Chair, College of Business Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC) From: Peter Ricci, Director, Hospitality Management, College of Business Date: September 27th, 2012 Re: Rationale for Proposing Certificates in Hospitality Mgmt. and Meetings & Events Mgmt. Thank you for providing our course/curriculum changes as well as our two certificate proposals to the College of Business Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UCC). In case you have any questions from the University Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (UUCC) as to the rationale for these proposed certificates, I wanted to clarify that rationale for you and the committee. We are proposing a certificate in Hospitality Management (1) and a second certificate in Meetings & Events Management (2). The reasons for these proposals include the following: 1) A trend over the past 5 years of many non-degree seeking students from the local hospitality workforce taking our courses and requesting an official certificate in both areas. We have approximately 15-30 non-degree-seeking students per year. 2) Ongoing and regular requests from the College of Business advising office to create these two certificate programs. The advising professionals within the College of Business, the director of the College of Business advising office, and the support staff members of the College of Business advising office have all requested for us to create these two certificates. There is an apparent desire from existing ý students to have the option of getting a certificate in either Hospitality Management or Meetings & Events Management (or both) without having to fully pursue the minor in hospitality management. 3) As part of ýs strategic plans which include community engagement, our hospitality industry advising group felt that it was in the best interest of the regional hospitality workforce to have these certificates available. Our competitor institutions (i.e., Lynn University, Florida International University, and Palm Beach State College) all have similar certificates in place; actually, they have many more varieties than these two. But, this is a start. 4) The hospitality industry remains the states largest private employer and is the largest private employer in Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade, Monroe, Collier, Lee, Martin, and most every other surrounding county. This offering of certificates will aid the local workforce in improving their job skills and employability as part of ýs community engagement and outreach. The program director has had multiple requests for certificate programs from regional resorts, hotels, private country clubs, casinos, event planning companies, destination marketing agencies, travel agencies, cruise lines, restaurants, and attractions. There exists tremendous potential to attract non-degree-seeking students to these certificates...and, possibly, to degree programs after completion of these certificate courses. 5) These certificates can be provided with a) no additional course offerings to the schedule already in rotation, b) no additional faculty members, and, c) no additional costs to the university, college, or program except for the paper that the certificates are printed on (and, this paper is already in stock for various other certificates across multiple business programs and is already administered by the College of Business advising office). In sum, these certificates are fully justifiable to create a win win scenario among ý, the local hospitality workforce, and both our traditional students and non-degree-seeking students. 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