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 NIAGARA UNIVERSITY’S HOSPITALITY & TOURISM PROGRAM GRADUATES ACHIEVE GREAT SUCCESS

Graduates of Niagara University’s (Lewiston, NY) College of Hospitality & Tourism Management achieve a nearly 100 percent placement rate and often earn starting salaries that exceed those with new four-year degrees. Particularly helpful to many of these graduates has been the college’s participation in the Club Managers Association of America (CMAA) and its designation as Student Chapter of the Year for 5+ years running.
 
Dr. William D. Frye, Ph.D., CHE, CHO, an associate professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management, heads the club management program and advises the CMAA student chapter. He explains with membership, students are exposed to top tier country clubs, yacht clubs, city clubs, athletic clubs, and golf facilities, where they complete internships and learn to master the highest level of service as practiced at these institutions. In many cases, these internships lead to full-time paid managerial positions upon graduation.
 
For example, William Duthe, a 2009 Niagara University graduate, is currently one of the youngest club professionals to hold the position of general manager at the platinum-rated Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
 
While most students who graduate from college may not think about a career working at a private club, at Niagara University it is a specialized discipline and students graduating from the hospitality, tourism, and sport management programs command starting salaries at around $45,000.
 
”Niagara’s Hospitality program and its commitment to the CMAA model provided the professional framework, education, and networking opportunities that positioned me as a strong candidate in a tough job market when I graduated,” Duthe says. “From my first position at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton, NY, to my current position at Columbia Country Club, my background and commitment to the CMAA model and the club management industry has been instrumental in my career.”
 
Patrick Reilly, a current Niagara University Hotel & Restaurant Management senior and CMAA member, has held paid internships at The Buffalo Club (platinum-rated club), New York Athletic Club (#1 ranked athletic club in the nation), Cherokee Town & Country Club (#2 ranked club in the nation), and Baltimore Country Club (platinum- rated club).
 
Awarded the 2015 Joe Perdue Club Foundation Scholarship, the most prestigious student club scholarship available, Reilly will be attending the CMAA World Conference this month and already has clubs approaching him to set up interviews at the conference.
 
”Thanks to Niagara’s phenomenal Hospitality and Tourism College and being a member of the CMAA, I have been given the opportunity to select a career path that is not only interesting and rewarding but well paid as well,” he says. Not many kids my age get to do that right out of college.”
 
Dr. Frye says the Niagara University’s student chapter of CMAA is so successful that it topped 52 other colleges and universities from throughout the country to receive CMAA’s prestigious Student Chapter of the Year annual award at the association’s World Conference on Club Management and Business Exposition for the past five years. The honor means Niagara has maintained the most outstanding student chapter in the nation every year since 2008.
 
”The model for professionalism, education, and networking that the NU CMAA student chapter has developed in its eight short years of existence has been routinely acclaimed by CMAA’s professional staff and leading club managers as a hallmark of excellence,” remarks Dr. Frye. ”I am quite proud of our students and their ability to impress the highest-ranking members of this esteemed association.”
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