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Type
  
Academic staff
  
60

Postgraduates
  
67

Total enrollment
  
860 (2011)

Dean
  
Michael D. Johnson

Established
  
1922

Undergraduates
  
894

Location
  
Founded
  
1922

Parent organization
  
Cornell University School of Hotel Administration 5M grant boosts access to School of Hotel Administration Cornell

Headquarters
  
Ithaca, New York, United States

Notable alumni
  
Chuck Feeney, Andrew Tisch, Aida Mollenkamp, Harris Rosen, John Tillman

Similar
  
Cornell University, École hôtelière de Lausa, Institute of Hotel Manage, IHM Pusa, Cornell Tech

Profiles

The School of Hotel Administration (SHA) at Cornell University is a specialized business school for hospitality management founded in 1922 as the world's first four-year intercollegiate school devoted to the field. It is one of a few hospitality management schools in the country that is not part of another academic department, school, or college, though until 1950, it was operated as a department within the New York State College of Home Economics. The undergraduate business curriculum at the School of Hotel Administration is one of only three such Ivy League programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) including the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, Cornell University's Dyson Applied Economics and Management program, and Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. Cornellians generally refer to it as the Hotel School, and its students and alumni as Hotelies.

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History

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The nature of SHA was in large part the creation of professor Howard B. Meek. He was supported in his efforts by New York City hotel men, a number of whom testified in Albany, urging the legislature to appropriate $11,000 per year for the school. Edward M. Tierney of the Ansonia Hotel stated "There is a dearth of competent hotel employes [sic], and such a course at Cornell would have the endorsement and co-operation of the hotel men generally throughout the country... The war brought a great change in the hotel worker, and the old-time attitude of servility has been replaced by efficient service giving and courtesy. Young men now enter the hotel business just as they would banking, railroad, or commercial life, to find a future in it, and the hotel man must offer the same attractions of commensurate pay and advancement."

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In 1927, at the 2nd Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, Meek convinced a skeptical Ellsworth Milton Statler of the value of the concept; Statler declared "I'm converted. Meek can have any damn thing he wants." Statler and his wife became major benefactors of the school, eventually donating a total of more than $10 million. In 1950, the school was transformed from being a part of a statutory college into becoming an endowed unit of Cornell.

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In 1948, the Statler Foundation funded the construction of a 50-room Statler Inn and the adjoining class-room building called Statler Hall. The building also housed Cornell's faculty club. The 750-seat Alice Statler Auditorium was added to the southern end in 1956. In 1986, the original Statler Inn was torn down and replaced with the current 150-room Statler Hotel & J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center. The Statler Hotel underwent another renovation in 2006 and now has 153 guest rooms. The Statler Hotel is the only hotel on campus.

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On January 28, 2016 the Cornell Board of Trustees authorized the design and implementation of a plan for a Cornell College of Business, comprising the university's three exceptional accredited business schools: the School of Hotel Administration (SHA), the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management (Dyson), and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management (Johnson). The new Cornell College of Business is expected to begin enrollment in the fall of 2016.

Profile

The school enrolled 895 undergraduates and 67 graduate students in 2011, hailing from almost 50 countries; it is Cornell's second smallest undergraduate college. Its curriculum encompasses all facets of general business management with a focus on the hospitality industry. Although not required, many students choose to work at the Statler Hotel to supplement their education at the school. SHA employs 65 full-time faculty members, most with field management experience.

In 1954, Conrad Hilton, who was closely associated with the school after his company bought the Statler hotel chain, called it "the greatest hotel school in the world." Conrad Hilton later became more closely associated with another school after he founded the Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management at the University of Houston in 1969.

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SHA's course catalog includes several offerings for students in other Cornell colleges, notably HADM 4300, Introduction to Wines, a wine tasting course which enrolls 600–900 students each semester, as well as a 2-credit cooking course.

SHA also runs technical courses such as Real Estate Finance and Investments (HADM 4428), Securitization and Structured Finance (HADM 4425), and Investment Portfolio Analysis (HADM 4429). Roughly 40% of undergraduates go into banking or consulting fields after graduation.

In a 2007 Newsweek article dubbing Cornell the "Hottest Ivy", SHA was mentioned to be "considered the world's best." The School was ranked the No. 1 hospitality and hotel management school in the world for 2015 by CEOWORLD magazine.

Fictional Hotelies have included:

  • In Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, a hotel manager attended the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration because it was the only Ivy League school he got into
  • In Dirty Dancing, Neil
  • In Hotel by Arthur Hailey, Peter McDermott, manager of the St. Gregory.
  • In 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan's friend, Fat Balls
  • Some notable alumni of the school include the founders of Alamo Rent-A-Car; Arby's; Burger King; Dunkin' Donuts; Duty Free Shoppers Group ; HVS Global Hospitality Services; and PriceWaterhouseCoopers Global Hospitality Consulting. (For more, List of Cornell University alumni)

    Degrees and certificates

    Participants come from all over the world to take classes at such locations as Ithaca, New York; Brussels, Belgium; Singapore; and site visits in Las Vegas and New York City.

    Statler Hotel

    The full-service Statler Hotel has 153 guest rooms at the center of Cornell's campus. The hotel also serves as a primary teaching tool for the School of Hotel Administration. Each year more than 200 SHA students work alongside professionals in a range of hotel and restaurant operations.

    In 2011, 2012, and 2013, the Statler Hotel was awarded a 4-diamond rating by AAA.

    The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship

    The Leland C. and Mary M. Pillsbury Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship

    Center for Hospitality Research

    The Cornell Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) is a service of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration for the hospitality industry. With the support of industry partners the center promotes, supports, and distributes hospitality research. Three series of center publications are posted at no charge on its site chr.cornell.edu. They are Cornell Hospitality Reports, Cornell Hospitality Tools, and Industry Perspectives. In addition, the center is the publisher of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly, now entering its sixth decade of publication, which is available by subscription only. The center’s research agenda promotes studies that have direct implications for improving hospitality operations, but must be based on solid theoretical and procedural principles. The free reports and tools are more practitioner oriented, while the award-winning Quarterly includes more of the theory and educational content appropriate for students and academics. The center also produces a series of industry roundtables and participates in high level industry conferences to share research findings.

    Publications

    Cornell Hospitality Reports shares the knowledge created by center fellows and other researchers.

    Cornell Hospitality Tools - web-based interactive tools for the hospitality industry.

    Cornell Hospitality Quarterly - a leading academic journal for the hospitality industry.

    Industry Perspective: A White Paper Series from Cornell - provide insight from hospitality industry leaders on the issues that matter most to senior executives and hospitality practitioners.

    Hospitality Roundtable Proceedings - offer a thorough report on roundtable's deliberations.

    Best Practices - identified and recognized Best Practive Champions across all segments of the U.S. lodging industry.

    References

    Cornell University School of Hotel Administration Wikipedia


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