Hospitality Management

NCCC recently received approval from the NYSED to offer a two-year associate degree in Hospitality Management. We are currently working with the NCCC program coordinator to offer a similar agreement as well. NCCC's program is designed to prepare students for careers in an industry where excellent communication and high-level people skills are necessary, as well as the ability to provide bottom-line accountability. The Hospitality Management program's educational offerings span industry needs and are also sufficiently applied to support supervisory and entry-level management employment in many areas of the industry.

Niagara University (www.niagara.edu) also offers a bachelors degree in a variety of Hospitality fields and was recently identified as one of the top 15 four-year programs in the industry. NCCC Tech Prep has developed an articulation agreement with Niagara University's program in Hospitality and Tourism Management to allow students in local high schools to complete a series of courses aimed at careers in the industry. The courses titled Entertainment and Sports Marketing and Hospitality and Tourism Marketing provide students an insight to the many quality employment opportunities in the field. In addition, they allows students to transfer the course completion into the HRT100 course required at Niagara University and receive 3 college credits.

Currently, the hospitality courses are offered at: Niagara Falls, Lewiston-Porter, Starpoint, Barker, and Niagara-Wheatfield. Other schools considering the courses in the coming year (2004-05) to include: Lockport and North Tonawanda. For more information regarding programs and agreements, contact your local school counselor, Tech Prep office or NCCC program coordinator, Becky Burns at 614-6222 (burns@niagaracc.suny.edu)

Participants:
Niagara University - Hospitality Management, Sports Recreation Management

Faculty Participants and Email addresses available on
participants page.