ICHRIE Eta Sigma Delta (ESD) ΗΣΔ Undergraduate Research Symposium
20-21 February 2025 

DAY ONE

Opening Keynote

CHRIE FutureFund™ Celebrates Graduate Student Winners in Montreal

Your CHRIE FutureFund™ provided a $1,000 award to eight graduate students, enabling them to attend the 2024 ICHRIE Global Conference in Montreal. There were four Best Paper Winners from the 2024 Graduate Research Conference held at FIU in January, and four winners of the 2024 Dissertation Proposal Competition. One student, Juhwan Lim, from Kansas State University, won both awards.

This Spring, college and university members of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) International Honor Society, Eta Sigma Delta (ESD), traveled to Chicago, Illinois, USA, for a Professional Development and Networking Event. This event was held in conjunction with the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show.

Recently, ICHRIE Executive Director, Fran Brasseux, visited the Northern Virginia Center (in Falls Church, VA) and learned about the amazing new Virginia Tech Innovation Campus in Alexandria, Virginia, USA. ICHRIE had a warm welcome from Dr. Mahmood Khan, Mary Richards, Jim Murphy (Information Technology) and international hospitality and tourism graduate students.

In the Summer 2022 issue of the Pamplin Pulse, the Virginia Tech’s TLOS, Thinkabit, and the MSBA-HTM program were featured for their contributions at the ICHRIE Conference’s Education and Innovation Center (EIC) at the 2022 Annual International CHRIE Summer Conference.

West Virginia University

AN ICHRIE MEMBER HIGHLIGHT

Last week, Fran Brasseux, ICHRIE Executive Director, had the honor of visiting Dr. Ajay Aluri at West Virginia University's John Chambers College of Business and Economics, Hospitality and Tourism Management program in Morgantown, West Virginia, USA. There are so many exciting things happing at WVU, and we wanted to share them with you...

The DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Alliance Partnership Brief 

What is the DEI Alliance?

A bold, intentional initiative is underway among higher education institutions to build a strategically aligned alliance to address the needs of and create a pathway for talented lower socio-economic Black high school and community college students to pursue a hospitality management degree. The program is tentatively named the DEI Alliance.