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Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management

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  • Hilton College Gives Back for Golden Anniversary

    On Sept. 16, 1969 classes began at Hilton College with 39 students and three professors. Exactly 50 years later – on Sept. 16, 2019 – the Hilton College family came together to celebrate that historic occasion by giving back to the community with a Day of Service

  • Deans Establish Partnerships in Ecuador

    Hilton College now has a presence in Ecuador, thanks to Dr. Ki-Joon Back, associate dean for research and graduate studies. On Sept. 23, Dr. Back and Dean Dennis Reynolds traveled to Quito to forge partnerships with Universidad de Las Americas, Quito (UDLA) and Universidad San Francisco De Quito (USFQ).

  • New Staffing in Career Development, Administration and Recruitment

    Two new staff members have joined Hilton College, and one received a promotion: Gloria Ratliff, director of career development; Wendy Evans, executive assistant to the Dean; and Desa Rae Dominguez, recruitment manager for Hilton College-San Antonio.

  • Alumni Board Welcomes New Members

    During its annual meeting on Sept. 12, the Hilton College Alumni Board introduced three new members: Patrick McCaslin (’10), John Price (’10) and Luis Rabo (’95, MHM/MBA ’02). Immediate past president Kaitlyn Venable-Valdez (’12) also passed the torch to incoming president Jessica Lewis (’07).

  • Business Office Receives Group Excellence Award

    Under the leadership of Deepu Kurian, the Hilton College business office was honored with the coveted 2019 Rebecca Szwarc Group Award during the University of Houston Staff Excellence Awards Reception. Kurian’s team includes Alfredo Fernandez, Eric Chen, Silvia Vera, Dominique Cotwright and Theodore Liang.

  • Fifth Doctoral Cohort Joins Hilton College

    Hilton College welcomed six students pursuing their Ph.D.’s in Hospitality Administration this fall, along with one visiting scholar. From left, they are: Maame Afua Adu, Sung In Kim, Sean McNeely, Cortney Norris, Michelle Russen, Yun Yang and Dr. Hanlin Xu.

  • Dean’s Executive Assistant Honored with Endowed Scholarship

    During her retirement party, Dean’s Executive Assistant Donna Shaw was honored with an endowed scholarship in her name. The Donna Shaw Scholarship Endowment was created with a $25,000 gift from Dean’s Advisory Board member Ron E. Jackson (left), and UH Regent and Dean's Advisory Board Chairman Doug Brooks (’75).

  • Anniversary Book Commemorates 50 Reasons We ARE Hospitality

    Turning 50 is a milestone to be embraced and celebrated. We are proud and excited to share the collective story of Hilton College with a commemorative book titled “Celebrating 50 Reasons We ARE Hospitality.”

  • More News, People and Happenings

    In case you missed an issue of our monthly Snap Shots e-newsletter, we have past stories archived here!

  • 92%of our students have jobs upon graduation
  • 54countries represent our student body, making us the most diverse hospitality program in the world
  • 874undergraduate students
  • 92MS and Executive Master's students
  • 28MS in Global Hospitality Business students from 16 countries
  • 14Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration students
  • $1,000,000 in merit-based college and university scholarships awarded
  • 8,579alumni work in hospitality leadership positions in more than 50 countries around the world

HOSPITALITY MEANS BUSINESS!

Our name says “Hotel and Restaurant,” but we are so much more! We are a specialized business degree program in hospitality, offering undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees in hotel and restaurant management, hospitality management, global hospitality business and hospitality administration, respectively, as well as a minor in beverage management and marketing. Our graduates realize incredible career opportunities around the globe in lodging, restaurants, catering and events, casino, spa and club management, food safety, conference services, hospitality technology, sports and entertainment venues, marketing and social media, tourism, revenue management, wine and spirits distribution – and these are just a few specialized areas of hospitality. A huge part of our industry is food & beverage, so our students spend quality time in chef coats learning basic cooking, food safety and knife skills. Our focus is always on management, not what’s on the menu! Still, many aspiring chefs come here to learn about the business and operational side of the restaurant industry either before or after they complete a culinary program. Here, we prepare the hospitality leaders of tomorrow. And with our specialized team of counselors in our Career Development office, we are ready and willing to help you navigate this global industry through internships and career fairs where we bring top hospitality employers to you.

Hospitality is the world’s No. 1 employer. We ARE hospitality. We will help you find your place in our industry!

 

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San Antonio

San Antonio – regarded as the "Tourism Capital of Texas" – is the 6th largest city in the United States and hospitality is the third largest employer in the area. Thanks to the overwhelming support of local employers, the world’s leading hospitality management program (that’s us!) has been offering classes at Sunset Station’s historic Mission Hotel since 2014. Hilton College is the first provider of a Bachelor of Science in Hotel and Restaurant Management in the Alamo City. It's the perfect place to begin your hospitality career!

WE ARE IN SAN ANTONIO

Faculty Accolades

Juan-M.-Madera

Dr. Juan M. Madera has had two papers accepted for publication. The first, titled “Top Management Gender Diversity and Organizational Attraction: When and Why it Matters,” was accepted for publication in the Archives of Scientific Psychology, an APA journal. The second was accepted by the Harvard Business Review and is titled “How We Describe Male and Female Job Applicants Differently.”

 

 

Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Trends has accepted a paper co-authored by Drs. John Bowen and Cristian Morosan titled “Beware hospitality industry: the robots are coming.” The purpose of their study was to provide an overview of how artificial intelligence and robotics can and will be used by the hospitality industry, and offers a glimpse of what the use of robotics will look like in 2030.

 

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ki-joon-back

Dr. Ki-Joon Back and his research colleagues in Korea, Malaysia and Switzerland have received acceptance notification from International Gambling Studies for their manuscript titled “A mixed method approach of developing a multidimensional scale for gambling fallacy in the Korean context.” The primary objective of their study was to develop a valid gambling fallacy scale for the South Korean population using qualitative and quantitative methods to thoroughly understand the underlying structure of erroneous beliefs toward gambling among recreational and problem gamblers.

Hilton College is THE place to advance your career with a hospitality graduate degree! Choose from our Master of Science in Hospitality Management, a joint MS/MBA, Master of Science in Global Hospitality Business, Online Executive Master of Hospitality Management or Ph.D. in Hospitality Administration. To learn more, contact Graduate Programs Manager Anthony Tello at artello@uh.edu or 713.743.3854.

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