Collins College of Hospitality Management

The Collins College of Hospitality Management
Established	1973
Type	Public Space grant[1]
Endowment	$11 million[2]
Dean	Andy Feinstein
Students	1,000 (percent of total university enrollment: 5%)
Location	Pomona (pop. 152,631),[3] California, United States
Campus	• Building 79 - The Collins College of Hospitality Management, • Building 79A - The Collins College of Hospitality Management A, • Building 79B - The Collins College of Hospitality Management B
Affiliations	•Cal Poly Pomona •CSU system
Website	The Collins College of Hospitality Management

The Collins College of Hospitality Management is a college part of the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (Cal Poly Pomona). Founded in 1973, it was the first hospitality management studies program in California and its thousand students make it the largest such school in the state.^[4] As of 2010, The Collins College of Hospitality Management is ranked third in the nation by restaurant executives.^[5] Andrew Hale Feinstein is Dean and James A. Collins Distinguished Chair.^[4]

Name

The official name of the college is The Collins College of Hospitality Management^[6], with the definite article The part of the college's official name. Publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Cal Poly Pomona's electronic magazine PolyCentric have referred to the college without The as part of the name.^[7][8]

Admissions

Admissions to the Collins College are on a rolling basis along with all other colleges at the university.

Undergraduate application count^[9][10]

	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Applied	496	572	625	574	737
Accepted	393	424	397	384	342
Admission rate	&1000000000000007920000079.2%	&1000000000000007409999974.1%	&1000000000000006350000063.5%	&1000000000000006690000066.9%	&1000000000000004639999946.4%
Enrolled	125	76	98	101	59

Freshmen admissions

First-time freshmen profile^[11]

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
Enrollment	85	103	125	107	98	101	59
Average GPA	3.16	3.24	3.26	3.25	3.24	3.34	3.45
Average SAT	986	997	1002	997	1044	1065	1055

Industry support

The Collins College main building's entrance

The Collins College is housed in three buildings, which were built with private donations.^[12] The college is named after Carol and Jim Collins, who are the primary benefactors of the program. They have given more than $10 million in the last 23 years and in December 2008, they pledged to match $5 million in donations in order to build a new $10 million building. The building would allow the college to accommodate more students and house a graduate studies program.^[13]

In November 2010, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation awarded $2 million to The Collins College of Hospitality Management for the academic building expansion. This gift was matched by Carol and Jim Collins. ^{[14] [15]}

Hae and Shina Park have also donated more than $2 million to the college. Hae Park, who owns and manages Cal Pacific Realty, is an alumnus of the program.^[16] Additional industry support has come from Carl Karcher Enterprises and Marriott Corp.^[12] In December 2010, Eugene Park, son of Hae and Shina, pledged $1 million to the college's academic building expansion. Eugene Park is also an alumnus of the college. The gift was matched by Carol and Jim Collins. ^[17]

School to college

The college was previously named The Collins School of Hospitality Management. In July 2008, Cal Poly Pomona President J. Michael Ortiz designated the school a college. There are only six hospitality management colleges nationwide.^[18]

Horsehill Vineyards wine

The Collins College and the Cal Poly Pomona College of Agriculture partner to produce Horsehill Vineyards wine. The inaugural vintage of Horsehill Vineyards Zinfandel Rosé won the Gold Medal, Best of Class in the Best Rosé Limited Production category at the 70th annual Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. The 2008 Horsehill Vineyards Zinfandel received a bronze medal.^[19] Horsehill Vineyards 2009 Rosé also won a gold medal at the 71st annual Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition. ^[20]

Horsehill Vineyards wine is made from grapes grown on the Cal Poly Pomona campus and is one of only a few wines made from grapes grown in Los Angeles County, California. The colleges partnered with master winemaker Jon McPherson at South Coast Winery in Temecula, California, to produce and bottle the rosé for the university. Roughly two-thirds of the 2008 harvest yielded 328 cases of Horsehill Vineyards Zinfandel Rosé, which have been sold exclusively at the Collins College's Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch.^[21]

Third-generation winemaker Don Galleano used the other third from the 2008 harvest to make a Zinfandel, which aged for about six months in oak barrels at Galleano Winery in Mira Loma, California. The Zinfandel won a bronze in the category Limited Production Zinfandel from 2007 or Later at the 70th annual Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition.

The Zinfandel vines stem from the historic De Ambrogio Ranch, which was razed in 2001 for development in Rancho Cucamonga, California. Geyser Peak Winery made a Zinfandel from the De Ambrogio Vineyard, which was located across the street from what would become the Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center on the corner of Foothill Boulevard (old Route 66) and Haven Avenue.^[22] Galleano combed the ranch for the best vines before it was demolished for development. He donated 400 grapevine cuttings to the university.

Proceeds from the wine sales support a culinary garden at Cal Poly Pomona and the ongoing production of Horsehill Vineyards wine. Produce from the garden is incorporated into the menu at the Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch.^[23]

Collins Magazine

The award-winning Collins^[24] magazine is published twice a year by The Collins College of Hospitality Management and distributed to alumni and friends of the college. Private endowment funds pay for the magazine. The first issue of Collins magazine and the Collins College’s Web site^[4] each received an Award of Excellence in the 2009 APEX Awards for Publication Excellence. The APEX Awards is an annual competition for writers, editors, publications staff, and business and nonprofit communicators. The Fall 2008 issue of Collins won in the New Magazines & Journals category.^[25] The Web site won for New Web & Intranet Sites.

Facilities

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  The Margaret M. & Carl N. Karcher Plaza (Founders of Carl's Jr.) and Building 79A

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  Building 79A

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  Building 79B

References

1. ^ "California Space Grant Consortium Affiliates". California Space Grant Consortium. http://calspace.ucsd.edu/casgc/affiliates.html. Retrieved 2008-10-07. 
2. ^ http://www.csupomona.edu/~collins/industry_partners.shtml
3. ^ "Pomona, California". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation?_event=Search&_name=Pomona&_state=04000US06&Submit.x=10&Submit.y=10&_county=Pomona&_cityTown=Pomona&_zip=&_sse=on&_lang=en&pctxt=fphl. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
4. ^ ^{a b c} http://www.csupomona.edu/~collins/index.shtml
5. ^ http://www.csupomona.edu/~admissions/transfer/faq.html#16
6. ^ http://www.csupomona.edu/college_dept_index.php
7. ^ Hallock, Betty (February 25, 2009). "Recession takes big bite out of L.A. restaurant business". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/25/food/fo-restauranteconomy25/3. 
8. ^ http://polycentric.csupomona.edu/news_stories/2010/03/collins-chesser-nraef.html
9. ^ "Just the Facts". California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. http://www.csupomona.edu/~irar/facts/docs/Just_the_Facts_F10.pdf. Retrieved 2011-01-11. 
10. ^ "Application Counts by College and Major - Fall 2004 through Fall 2010". California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. http://www.csupomona.edu/~irar/stats/students/admissions/docs/Application%20Counts%20by%20Major.pdf. Retrieved 2010-12-11. 
11. ^ "Just the Facts". California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. http://www.csupomona.edu/~irar/facts/. Retrieved 2010-05-09. 
12. ^ ^{a b} Joseph Ascenzi (2002, June 24). The Collins School of Hospitality Management; Setting the table for careers in hospitality. The Business Press, p. 23. Retrieved December 22, 2008, from ProQuest Newsstand database.
13. ^ Monica Rodriguez. (2008, December 15) Benefactors pledge $5 million to The Collins College of Hospitality Management at Cal Poly Pomona, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_11240828
14. ^ PolyCentric (2010, Nov. 8). Marriott Foundation Awards $2 million to Collins, http://polycentric.csupomona.edu/news_stories/2010/11/marriott-foundation-2mil-collins.html.
15. ^ Nation's Restaurant News (2010, Nov. 18). Cal Poly Pomona receives donation for hospitality school, http://nrn.com/article/cal-poly-pomona-receives-donation-hospitality-school.
16. ^ Cal Poly Pomona receives $1 million gift. (2004, November 22). San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Retrieved December 22, 2008, from ProQuest Newsstand database.
17. ^ The Press-Enterprise(2010, Dec. 22). Inland business man donates $1 million to university, http://www.pe.com/business/local/stories/PE_Biz_D_bb_collins23.2ccdbcd.html.
18. ^ Cal Poly Pomona hospitality school expands to college designation, (2008, June 23) Nation's Restaurant News, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3190/is_25_42/ai_n27874101?tag=content;col1
19. ^ http://www.lawinecomp.com/wine2009/winners.htm
20. ^ http://www.fairplex.com/wos/wine_competition/AwardsCelebration/documents/Wine_Awards_By_Winery.pdf
21. ^ http://www.csupomona.edu/~horsehill
22. ^ Jean T. Barrett (2001, January 18) Disappearing Act: A once-vast Southern California wine region faces an uncertain future. Wine Spectator. http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Features/0,1197,283,00.html
23. ^ Monica Rodriguez (2008 June, 20) Cal Poly earns awards for the first wine products. The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.
24. ^ http://www.csupomona.edu/~collins/magazine.shtml
25. ^ http://www.apexawards.com/apexawards.htm