The Howard B. Meek Award is the highest individual recognition a member of ICHRIE may receive. It is presented to an ICHRIE member in recognition of the individual's lifetime contributions and outstanding service both to hospitality education and to International CHRIE. This award serves as a living memorial to the late Howard B. Meek, a pioneer in American hospitality education, the first dean of the School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University and an Executive Vice President of ICHRIE.
Qualifications for Howard B. Meek Award:
- Nominee must be an International CHRIE member at the time of nomination and receipt of the award.
- Outstanding service both to hospitality education and to International CHRIE
- Person must have had a meaningful leadership role in International CHRIE but not does not need to have been a member of the Board of Directors
- An International CHRIE member may receive the award only once.
Notes on the Howard B. Meek Award:
This award has been designed to honor a lifetime of achievement and is different from the Fletcher Award which does not require commitment to and service to ICHRIE – it could be to the industry or to hospitality in general. Winners of the award over the past ten years include: Raphael Kavanaugh, Robert D. Reid, Linda Lagman Hoops, W. Terry Umbreit, Caroline Cooper, Nicholas J. Hadgis, Brian M. Cooper, Andrew Schwarz, Thomas Walsh, Michael Olsen, William Cheeseman, George T. Alley, Kaye Chon, John Drysdale, Robert Bosselman and Rai Shacklock.
The Stevenson W. Fletcher Achievement Award recognizes an individual educator or trainer for outstanding achievement in contributing innovative ideas, methods or programs that have advanced teaching, learning or practice in the field of hospitality and tourism education. The award recipient must demonstrate exceptional professional ability and/or commitment through service to ICHRIE and/or to the hospitality industry and education. This award, formerly called the ICHRIE Achievement Award, was renamed in 1994 to honor Stevenson W. Fletcher, former program head of Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Administration at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Qualifications for The Stevenson W. Fletcher Achievement Award:
- Nominee must be an International CHRIE member at the time of nomination and receipt of the award.
- Educator or trainer
- Service to International CHRIE and/or service to hospitality education and the industry
Notes on the Stevenson W. Fletcher Achievement Award:
This award is given to an educator or trainer to honor exceptional ability. Past Award winners include: Sara Parks, Lynn Huffman,Ernest P. Boger II, Ray Schmidgall, Mahmood A. Khan, James A. Bardi, Alan Stutts, Peter Jones, Linda L. Hoops, Robery A. Brymer, Audrey C. McCooll, Frank D. Borsenik, Chris Roberts, Clyaton Barrows, Stuart Mann and Fred Mayo.
Notes on the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award:
- Normally a nomination by at least three members of International CHRIE.
- An International CHRIE member may be nominated more than once but may receive the award only once.
Past winners have included: Brent Ritchie, J. Chekitan Dev, Tom Baum, Denney G. Rutherford, Raymond Schmidgall, Mahmood Khan, Audrey C. McCool, Stephen J. Hiemstra, Abraham Pizam, Pamela Weaver, Kaye S. Chon, Arun Upneja, Hailin Qu, Cathy Hsu and Haiyan Song.
John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award
The John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award recognizes an ICHRIE member for lifetime contributions to outstanding scholarship and research in hospitality and tourism. The award is given to an International CHRIE member who has made and continues to make significant contributions to the field of hospitality and tourism through scholarly research published in hospitality and non-hospitality journals over an extended period. It serves as a tribute for a distinguished individual who has demonstrated both leadership in a specialized field of study and high standards in the systematic and objective analysis of data that has led to a significant contribution to the body of knowledge.
Qualifications for the John Wiley & Sons Lifetime Research Achievement Award:
- An established track record of scholarly work published in refereed hospitality and non- hospitality academic journals.
- A research focus that establishes the individual as an authority/expert in the chosen field of research.
- Tenured faculty member with associate professor or full professor rank at a reputable institution of higher education.
- Record of service as a mentor for several graduate students or untenured faculty members.
- A member of International CHRIE for at least 5 years.
- A record of active participation with International CHRIE.
- At least 10 years of active research / teaching experience beyond the terminal degree.
Notes on the John Wiley & Sons Innovation in Teaching Award:
- An International CHRIE member may be nominated and receive the award more than once.
Past award winners include: Audrey McCool, Sandra Kapoor, H.G. Parsa, Lynn Huffman, Janice Pratt, Joseph LaLopa, Lori Sipe, Denver Severt, Cynthia Deale, Ravi Pandit, Rai Shacklock, Cihan Cobanoglu, Linda Shea, Godwin-Charles Ogbeide
John Wiley & Sons Innovation in Teaching Award
The John Wiley & Sons Award for Innovation in Teaching recognizes an International CHRIE member for the individual’s implementation of innovative, creative, and effective teaching techniques in hospitality education at the high school, diploma, and college or university level.
Notes on the W. Bradford Wiley Memorial Best Research Paper of the Year Award:
- Paper must be nominated by at least three International CHRIE members.
- An International CHRIE member may be nominated and receive the award more than once.
Past award winners include: Michael Lynn, John Bowen and Anthony Lucas; Joseph S. Chen; James R. Brown, Chekitan Dev, and Dong-Jin Lee; H.G. Parsa, Stowe Shoemaker, and John Bowen; Stowe Shoemaker and Robert C. Lewis; Haemoon Oh and Miyoung Jeong; Raymond T. Sparrowe and Pamela Popielarz; Stowe Shoemaker; Paula A. Francese; and Brian J. Mihalik and Thomas F. Powers; H.G. Parsa; Karthik Namasivayam; Haemoon Oh, Miyoung Jeong and Ann Marie Fiore.
McCool Breakthrough Award
This is an award to honor the spirit of Willie McCool. This award will be given to an individual, group, program, school, college, association, or corporation that has made a significant break through or introduced a unique approach in the spirit of ICHRIE's mission. The award recognizes an event, activity, or program in the spirit of Willie McCool, a dedicated and successful astronaut and son of Audrey and Barry McCool, faculty members at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Qualifications for the McCool Breakthrough Award:
- The event, activity, program paper must represent a noteworthy breakthrough or new way of doing things and demonstrate a significant improvement or change over regular operations.
Notes on the McCool Breakthrough Award:
- The person, group, program, school, college, association, or corporation must be nominated by an International CHRIE member but does not need to be an International CHRIE member.
- The nominator will be asked by the Awards Committee to provide a written justification statement, using the criteria as a guide, as to why the individual, group, program, school, college, association, or corporation should receive the award.
- A person, group, program, school, college, association, or corporation may be nominated and receive the award more than once, for different events, activities, and programs.
Industry Recognition Award
This special award is given to a hospitality and tourism industry professional and/or organization in recognition of a pattern of demonstrated commitment to advance hospitality and tourism education as a discipline.
Notes on the Industry Recognition Award:
- Preference will be given to International CHRIE members but persons or organizations do not have to be an International CHRIE member to be nominated or receive the award.
- A person, corporation, or organization may be nominated and receive the award more than once.
- The nominator may be asked by the Awards Committee to gather information the person who has been nominated.
Past winners have included: Nina Madoo, Marriott International, Steve O'Connor, Marriott International; Bill Cohen, Haworth Press, Mary Jo Dolasinski, White Lodging Services; American Hotel & Lodging Foundation; Wendy Swedlove, Canadian Tourism Human Resource Council; Otmar Sorgenfrei, Nestle Gastronomia Foundation; John Wiley & Sons, Inc; Gilles Honneger, ACCOR; Robin Baliszewski, Prentice Hall Publishers; Van Nostrand Reinhold; Vince Feehan, Ecolab, Inc.; Phil T. Belanger, Holiday Inn Worldwide; and James Singerling, Club Managers' Association of America; Faye Gayes, The American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute; Phillip Rossiter, Institute of Hospitality; and Phillip Charlton, Hospitality Training Association, Inc.
Raphael Kavanaugh Champion of Education Award
This unique award is given by the International CHRIE Board of Directors—upon special occasion—to honor a corporation, organization, or individual who has made a long standing commitment to, or shown a pattern of support for, special initiatives that advance the mission of ICHRIE.
Notes on the Raphael Kavanaugh Champion of Education Award:
- Preference will be given to International CHRIE members but persons, corporations, or organizations do not have to be International CHRIE members to be nominated or to receive the award.
- A person, corporation, or organization may be nominated and receive the award more than once.
- This award provides International CHRIE with the opportunity to give special recognition to an individual or corporation when appropriate.
- The nominator may be asked by the Awards Committee to gather information about the person who has been nominated.
This award is given rarely—as you can see from the list of past winners: Gilles Honegger, J.W. Marriott, Jr., William P. Fisher, E. Ray Swan, Gilbert Valterio, Hank Cockerill, Michael Hurst, Tony Marshall, and Raphael Kavanaugh.
The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award
The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award honors the memory of a pioneer in culinary education by recognizing outstanding achievement and contributions to foodservice education by a chef/educator. The recipient of this award must exhibit high professionalism, demonstrate a strong commitment to hospitality education, and have a record of contributions to International CHRIE and the industry as a chef/educator.
Qualifications for The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award:
- Nominee must be an International CHRIE member at the time of nomination and receipt of the award.
- Nominee must be a Chef/educator who is a teacher or trainer is foodservice.
Notes on The Chef Herman Breithaupt Award:
An International CHRIE member may receive the award only once. It is given to a culinary specialist. The persons who have won the award over the past ten years include: Keith Mandabach, Robert Harrington, Mary Petersen, Margaret "Mokie" Steiskal, John Drysdale, John Antun, Ollie Sommer, Noel Cullen, Anne Jachim, Peter A. D'Souza, Jerald Chesser, Michael E. Zema, Charles E. Wilson, III, Angelo Camillo and William Nolan.