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Submit to Laura Camara, Manager, Academic Planning & Resources, 8/10/11 for archiving immediately after meeting. Meeting Summary Template

University of San Francisco

School of Management

Department of Hospitality Management

Meeting Summary

Date: 3/6/2017 Start Time:

2:30pm End Time: 4:33pm Location: LM 108

Who was there

Michael Collins (MC), Department Chair

Jean-Marc Fullsack (JF)

Thomas Maier (TM)

Michelle Millar (MM)

KO Odsather (KO)

Jeff Scharosch (JS)

Jim Kauffman (JK)

Whitney Zeller (WZ)

Topic of Meeting

Please see attached Agenda.

Decisions Made and Policies Approved

(MM) motioned to approve the change of title from “capstone course” to “culminating course”. (MC) seconded, all (7) were in favor.

Hospitality Enrollment We currently have 99 students enrolled. BUS Administration major will be going away and OLC will become a Management major. (MC) had visited Washington High School to recruit students. He learned that Angela, one of our current HM students, came from Washington High School. We will have her go to the school to try to recruit more students from the hospitality program there. We discussed the possibility of creating a scholarship for a student from Washington High School to encourage more of their students to apply to our program. (JF) approved inviting 1-2 students from the school to attend our ‘Recruitment’ Dinner as well. Advising Survey and Fall Course Schedule (MC) emailed the Fall course schedule last week. He surveyed current students and provided the results (attached). Some of the highlighted results concluded that out of the business core, students still needed 308, 305 and 301. It also showed that out of the Hospitality courses they still needed BUS 480, BUS 388 and BUS 380. 23 students plan to take BUS 380 next semester and 22 students plan to take BUS 480. 62% of students have selected the Hotel & Restaurant Management track.


(MM) shared that as of today, the tracks would be cleared from the program moving forward. (KO) suggested that we hold a town hall meeting to share the new curriculum with students and allow current students to share their suggestions and opinions on possibly opting out of the tracks. (MM) updated us on UPC. She mentioned that all business students must take the Business Core. Beginning Fall 17’, students will not need to take 401/406. The curriculum will also include the 487 capstone, but it was asked if the term “capstone course” could be changed to “culminating course”/ (MM) motioned to approve the change of title from “capstone course” to “culminating course”. (MC) seconded, all were in favor. UPC confirmed the new curriculum, including the 1 credit industry experience course. (MM) talked with ISSS and confirmed that students can start/complete their hours before the semester they take the industry experience course. BUS 487: ‘Recruitment’ Dinner (March 30th)

Student Attendance Our goal is 20 students and 20 guests. We currently have 6 students and 2 guests.

Alumni Attendance Our goal is 20, we are currently at 7

Additional Support (JF) has approved to invite 1-2 students from Washington High School as well

Future Hospitality Career Showcase (April 3rd)

Participating Firms

We currently have 5 companies participating so far:

1. Hyatt

2. Hornblower

3. SF Travel

4. Giants

5. IHG

Students lowered the cost of participating to $500. The opening/closing sponsorship cost is $1,500.

Additional Support

(MC) suggested inviting a representative from each of the participating companies to the Advisory

Board luncheon on April 6th.

The Next Big Deal: Creating Real Value in Real Estate Through Hospitality (April 6th)

Student Attendance:

Approximately 50 students from combined hospitality courses will be required to attend the event for

their class.

Additional Student Attendance:

We will encourage other classes/departments to offer extra credit for attending the event.


Advisory Board and Industry Attendance

(MC) has sent an invitation for the pre-event luncheon. This will be an opportunity to “reload” our

advisory board. We discussed ways to modify the structure of advisory board membership, such as

requiring a fee for different levels of membership.

The following goals were suggested to bring to the new advisory board:

- Growing enrollment

- Starting a scholarship

(JK) advised that we need to improve the board to have more access to resources. We need to

evaluate the program as a business to contextualize it. He suggested that members will join the board

to give back as well as for the perks, such as events and opportunities.

Conference Call With Speakers:

On March 28, Jim will be attending a conference call with the three panelists: Marc Hoffman, Julie

Purnell and Jaime Law.

It has been decided that Dean Davis will do the introduction, followed by an introduction and moderated

panel discussion by Jim. 2 students will do the Q&A, one student from our department and one from

DSP. Panelists will talk about their background for 10-15min each. We will have 30-40min for Q&A

started by Jim and concluding with the students.

The April 6th event will be videotaped for future use. Light snacks will be provided.

Round-Table Discussion

(MC) wanted to discuss with (TM) about his role on the MBA committee. He suggested looking for an

opportunity to get Hospitality Management electives included in the MBA program.

(KO) asked what our offer will be at the Next Big Deal. (MC) said it will be decided by April 6th and that it has

been noted in the invite.

(END) 4:33PM

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