Outlook Magazine - Fall 2018

Half-century of hospitality School of leadership will mark decades of success with special events, new initiatives

Along with the HRTM program, UW-Stout’s hospitality programs consist of golf enterprise management; and real estate and property management. The university also offers an event and meeting management certificate. New food, beverage lab plans During the anniversary year and the university’s Pathways Forward comprehensive campaign, officials will focus on hospitality education in other ways, according to Gerdes. One goal is to create a new food and beverage research lab in Heritage Hall. Plans call for renovating the Rendezvous restaurant, which opened in 1992, and installing a new theater- style tasting lab with 30 stations and a wine cellar. Other majors on campus, such as dietetics and food science, could benefit from the lab, Gerdes said. Eight or more courses could be taught there. Also, fundraising efforts will support new scholarships and a professorship or chair for faculty research, some or all of which could be named for longtime professors such as D’Souza, Jafar Jafari, Phil McGuirk and Charles Metelka, who died in 2017.

Matthew Giguere’s Quantity Food Production class prepares a meal at the Cedar Cafe.

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ssociate Dean Kristal Gerdes believes there’s an overarching reason why UW-Stout’s School of Hospitality Leadership is recognized as one of the best in the world. “It’s the faculty. We know the students, and we’re preparing them to succeed — to be leaders in the industry.” The university and alumni will be celebrating UW-Stout’s legacy of hospitality education — and looking to the future — during the 2018-19 academic year. A banquet marking the 50th anniversary of the hotel, restaurant and tourism management undergraduate program will be held Thursday, March 7. The hotel and restaurant management Bachelor of Science program was approved in 1967 and began in 1968. It was renamed hospitality and tourism management in 1991 and took on its current name in 1999. Another anniversary event will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, the first College of Education, Hospitality, Health and Human Sciences Golf Scramble to support scholarships. The event will be at Tanglewood Greens golf course in Menomonie and managed by students in the golf enterprise management program. Tanglewood Greens is part of a new initiative. Course owner Rajiv Lall recently signed a memorandum of understanding with UW-Stout. The agreement includes student opportunities for internships at the course and experience at Tanglewood’s new events center; on-course educational programs for students and professionals, such as classes and seminars; and hands-on learning opportunities, such as turf management, for students.

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2019

10:00-11:30 a.m.

Student-led tours of campus

Noon-1.30 p.m.

Luncheon, looking ahead to the next 50 years Keynote speaker, Great Hall, student center Roundtable panel discussions featuring alumni, students Wine and food tasting seminar with Professor Peter D’Souza Dinner, featuring a “roast” of Professor Phil McGuirk

2:00-3:00 p.m.

3:00- 4:00 p.m.

5:30-7:00 p.m.

7:00-9:00 p.m.

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