Chaîne des Rôtisseurs' Miami chapter offers scholarships as STU's
culinary program grows
MIAMI
GARDENS, Fla., June 27,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Thomas
University on Thursday announced a new scholarship pledge
from the Miami Chaîne as student enrollment rockets in STU's
Culinary, Tourism & Hospitality Management major and the
program offers new culinary education certificates.
The Miami Chaîne, the local chapter of the elite Chaîne des
Rôtisseurs, the world's oldest international gastronomic society,
plans to provide $8,000 in
scholarship funding to eight STU students during the 2024-25
academic year. The chapter already donated $8,000 in scholarships to four STU culinary
students for the 2023-24 academic year.
The Miami Chaîne's latest scholarship pledge comes as STU
administrators project the Culinary, Tourism & Hospitality
Management program's enrollment will climb to more than 50 students
in the fall 2024 semester, which begins in August. That enrollment
total represents a 16-fold increase compared with when STU started
the program three and a half years ago with just three
students.
STU also just launched a 15-credit Culinary Arts Certificate.
The new certificate includes courses in managing food and beverage
offerings and cooking fundamentals. Plus, among other new
certificates, STU plans to launch a Culinary Medicine Certificate
as soon as January 2025 to teach
students about food's healing properties.
Last spring, STU's inaugural 2024 Chefs Leadership Summit in the
Gus Machado College of Business attracted nationally renowned
culinary experts and a diversity of eager seminar participants, who
benefited from many educational workshops.
Now, STU is proud to accept additional scholarship funds from
the Miami chapter of the Chaîne
des Rôtisseurs, which is among the culinary world's most
prestigious professional societies. The society's roots date to
France's Royal Guild of Goose Roasters in the year
1248.
STU recently tallied six student and employee members of the
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs, which has approximately 21,000 members in
more than 75 countries. Joining the Chaîne des Rôtisseurs requires
a member's nomination, admission fees, dues, and acceptance of the
society's regulations and bylaws.
The society upholds rigorous professional standards for spit
roasting, rotisserie cooking, barbecuing, broiling, and grilling;
promotes those types of cooking; and advances and disseminates
culinary and beverage-related knowledge.
Two of STU's Chaîne des Rôtisseurs are students and four are
university administrators, including David
A. Armstrong, J.D., President of STU, and Dr. Michelle Garcia Johnson-Garcia, Provost and
Chief Academic Officer, and Dr. Samer
Hassan, Professor and Program Director of STU's Culinary
Arts, Tourism & Hospitality Management Department.
Dr. David Edwards, Dean of STU's
business college, and Bruce Ozga,
Director of STU's Center for Professional and Continuing Studies,
are Chaîne des Rôtisseurs members, too, and Ozga serves as the
Miami Chaine's Vice Consellier Culinaire.
Before recently joining STU to lead the university's certificate
programs, Ozga served as Dean of Culinary Education at Johnson
& Wales' North Miami campus, which closed three years
ago. Dr. Edwards chaired the College of Hospitality Management at
Johnson & Wales' North Miami campus. Dr. Johnson-Garcia served
as Dean of Academic Affairs for that campus, and Dr. Hassan taught
there.
Since 2021, STU has created robust culinary educational
offerings, ably stepping in to fill the void left by Johnson &
Wales's departure. Florida's powerhouse food service industry
generates $69.4 billion in estimated
eating and drinking sales, while employing 1.03 million people (11%
of Florida's workforce) at
47,000-plus restaurants and drinking establishments, according to
the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association.
"Florida's economy turns on the
wheels of tourism and hospitality, and eating and drinking
establishments are their cultural and economic hubs," Dr. Hassan
said. "The Miami Chaîne's latest generous scholarship donation
affirms the STU Culinary, Tourism & Hospitality Management
Department's cutting-edge culinary curriculum while supporting a
student and teacher population that is as diverse as dishes they
prepare."
About St. Thomas
University
St. Thomas
University (STU) is a private, non-profit Catholic
institution committed to the academic and professional success of
its students who become ethical leaders in our global community.
Rich with cultural and international diversity, STU is the only
Catholic, Archdiocesan university in Florida. On our beautiful
campus and online, the university's College of Health Sciences
& Technology, Benjamin L. Crump
College of Law, Gus Machado College of Business, and
Biscayne College for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences offer 61
undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degree programs. In
2020, STU launched our Limitless five-year strategic plan, based on
the pillars of limitless Devotion, limitless Opportunities, and
limitless Results. The plan was conceived to provide students with
a magical collegiate experience that incorporates mentoring
faculty, character formation activities outside the classroom, and
required real-world experience before graduation.
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