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.

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.