Whereas, the Department of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management (HRIM) in the Lerner College of Business and Economics has offered a successful program leading to an MS-Hospitality Business Management offering students a path towards pursuing careers in the hospitality industry with strong decision-making capabilities and analytical skills pertinent to the information age, and

Whereas, HRIM has received many inquiries over the last several years from individuals who are interested in a business oriented hospitality Master’s degree focused on analytical careers in the hospitality industry, but not in Hospitality Information Management, and

Whereas, HRIM has proposed a Dual MS-Hospitality Business Management and Master of Business Administration (Dual MS-HBM & MBA), which enables qualified students to develop stronger business fundamentals with greater functional depth in areas such as Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Strategy etc. to complement and apply in the experiential hospitality services domain, and

Whereas, the existing graduate program in HRIM and the other departments in the Lerner College of Business and Economics already provide a majority of all the courses and administrative framework for such a degree, and

Whereas, the proposed Master’s Degree contributes to one of the milestones on the University’s “path to prominence” to achieve excellence in professional education; be it therefore

Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends provisional approval, for five years, the establishment of a new Dual Master of Science in Hospitality Business Management and Master of Business Administration (Dual MS-HBM & MBA).