Hotel Foundation is offering scholarships to students in community college and university programs, administering School to Work grants in Maricopa County, sponsoring high school career days and participation in the Great Southwest Lodging and Restaurant Show, and sponsoring a Career Fair in conjunction with the show. This year s job fair attracted 1,200 applicants. Nancy Dillon was able to secure funding through state Tech Prep for a pilot program to explore high school community college articulation and co-enrollment. Diane Guidici is chairing a committee to develop a model for Az. The pilot is supported by the state tech-prep organization, and is aimed at generating a model that will encourage high school graduates to enter community college programs.
Key issues are documentation, quality assurance, and teacher qualifications.
Forming a coalition of Hospitality ATF members to do program evaluation to support HRM programs and provide backing for program development. Various community colleges are taking different approaches to general education transfer curriculum. Everyone expressed a desire to continue their current approach, though Pima is planning major changes, to reflect a move toward increasing community college offering of HRM classes, with a concomitant reduction in general education credits. Colleges and universities give no recognition to the impact of courses taken by students outside their major. NAU will not offer web based 100 and 200 courses in state.