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University of Delaware HRIM students are involved in all aspects of the hotel, from the front office to accounts and engineering, sales and marketing, similar to the hands-on experience HRIM students gain in the student-run restaurant Vita Nova, which recently took honors for best lunch buffet. Because the hotel new, it also offers students the rare, hands-on opportunity to participate in starting up and managing such a facility. Unlike programs at many other universities, the UD students are fully integrated into all facets of running the hotel. Students have total immersion in the hotel industry. Under the supervision of faculty, they are able to apply their theory courses to managing the hotel and providing real solutions to problems they encounter. The Courtyard Newark at the University of Delaware has been called “a working laboratory” for UD students, giving them direct insights into all aspects of today’s hotel industry and providing a real-world site for them to learn critically important operating procedures. Students assigned to the hotel for a semester meet for weekly classes in a computerized learning center at the site. The center doubles as a conference room with online meeting capability. |
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