Hospitality Roles
September 23, 2004 Community Breakfast Comments
Hospitality Sector
What role could NMC play in helping you address these trends?
Economy |
- Developing agriculture to serve the local population-wineries, small farms, Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs), organic produce; might be a way to stop loss of farmland.
- Re-examine M-TEC: Why training for blue collar jobs that are going away?
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Technology |
- Assure students are proficient with technology, computers, etc.
- On-line courses.
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Demographics |
- Teach students to work in multi-cultural, multi-lingual environments and to manage individuals.
- Senior Academy excellent outreach.
- Mental stimulation for "young retirees."
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Curriculum |
- Offering hospitality curricula.
- Continuing education and involvement to satisfy need for mental stimulation for retirement community.
- NMC can become the regional hub for conferences, a hotel school.
- Increase culinary and restaurant management class size with emphasis on quality education, food and beverage management; local & international.
- Work with students to give them real life experience; students need to be fully aware of the costs of doing business in the food and beverage field.
- Teach interaction with government/regulatory agencies and how to solve problems in facility.
- Service industry refinement.
- Water Studies Institute.
- Health Education Institute: nursing, dental, physician assistants.
- Professional development at NMC.
- Health education to region.
- M-TEC: computing, financial.
- Hospitality management.
- Need trained service sector employees.
- Hospitality Industry can also benefit from "entrepreneurship."
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General |
- Staffing.
- Please keep providing events that draw non-visitors; example, Epicurean Classic.
- Use dorms for summer seasonal housing.
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