Category: March 2022
Welcome to the P.O.C. Ph.D. Pathway Program in Hospitality and Tourism Edition – March 2022 I am proud to share with you the launch of the P.O.C. Ph.D. Pathway Program in Hospitality and Tourism, a nationwide initiative developed in partnership with a consortium of deans and directors from Hospitality programs at universities across the country. […]
By: Deanne Williams-Bryant, Ed.D., Professor and Director, Bethune-Cookman University Introduction: Humble Beginnings As a product of the education system of a former British colony in the West Indies, I came from humble beginnings, which oddly enough made me very rich in my self-worth; not once in my childhood did I feel poor. My family foundation […]
By: Richard Currie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Boston University School of Hospitality Administration With both parents holding professional careers that required both of them to be at work around nine o’clock each workday morning, my older sister and I were driven to the local public elementary school near our home in the northwest corner of Raleigh, […]
By: James Arthur Williams, Ph.D., Associate Professor at University of Tennesse Life is an endless journey of so-called failures and successes. My journey had many paths; paths that connected and led me on a unique exploration. An exploration that was tethered to a lingering question: “What is my purpose?” I have never truly answered this […]
By: Juan Madera, Ph.D., Professor, Conrad N. Hilton College, University of Houston My career as an academic in hospitality was not a traditional, linear path. About fourteen years ago I took a gamble by joining the hospitality management program at the University of Houston’s Conrad N. Hilton College. I was in the final year of […]
By: E’Lisha V. Fogle, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, The Collins College of Hospitality Management, California State Polytechnic University, Ponoma The journey to becoming the first Black tenure-track faculty member in my current department has been an experience of global proportions. From international exploration to instrumental hospitality and tourism industry and non-profit experience, these opportunities have been […]