SDSU-The largest donation ever!

Gift is largest ever to a hospitality school or program in the western United States

San Diego State University’s School of Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) has received a $2.4 million donation from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, the largest-ever gift to a hospitality school or program in the western United States. The gift will endow the school’s Student Center for Professional Development, which will be renamed The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation Student Center for Professional Development. Bill Marriott, chairman and C.E.O. of Marriott International, will present SDSU with the $2.4 million check at a naming ceremony on January 28 at 3 p.m. in the College of Professional Studies & Fine Arts Dean’s Office. This new endowment is the seventh gift of $1 million or more received by HTM since its inception seven years ago.

‘Marriott is synonymous with high ethical standards and premier leadership,’ said Carl Winston, director of the School of HTM. ‘It’s also recognized for commitment to workplace diversity, mentorship of individuals and creating opportunities for those interested in joining the hospitality industry. These are values we share and the values we strive to develop in our students.’

The Student Center for Professional Development helps HTM students to find internships required to earn their degree and assists students in finding part-time, summer positions and full-time employment after graduation. More than 100 HTM students have completed internships with Marriott, and there’s a strong correlation between internship and job placement, said Brian Blake, director of the Student Center for Professional Development. The HTM program boasts a 99 percent placement rate.

SDSU graduates who now work for Marriott have impressed Steve Bauman, vice president, North America talent acquisition for Marriott International.

‘They’re bright, energetic and knowledgeable,’ Bauman said. ‘They come to Marriott with a great understanding of and passion for the industry, which is clearly the result of solid preparation.’

With the center’s funding now guaranteed in perpetuity, future HTM students can turn to its resources for networking assistance.

Students are not the only group to benefit from the center’s activities. The school’s community partners, and the industry in general, profit from this pipeline of potential employees, Blake said.

Care tourism

Ini adalah salah satu blog yang menarik. Isinya membahas mengenai perkembangan industri turisme di Indonesia dan kawasan Asean. Linknya berikut ini.

http://caretourism.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/antara-peluang-dan-persaingan-pekerja-pariwisata-antar-asean/

Para siswa dapat menyimak dan membaca artikel yang informatif pada blog ini.

Admin.

Want to be the best?

Every body has always a dream to be the best. Creme de la creme! The question is how to achieve your goal. Some people think that in order to be the best , you need a great effort. You need an extra energy. But in fact, it is not necessary so. It just a wrong perception.
If you want to be the best in school, in carrier, in your job, you just need a plan. You need a map. And you have to carve your road to success. Do not make an ambitious plan. Try to make a simple plan. And then, you can develop your plan that suit to your need from time to time. You should have a time frame or schedule of your achievement. Suppose now, you are in semester two 2009. You should put your target on 2009. For example, my target in semester two is to get 3.9 GPA. My goal is to be included in best three student in Tourism Program. Do not forget to review your plan and or your target accordingly.
When you have already set up your target, then you should put it in detail plan. Say, for this semester you take 6 courses with total 24 credits. It takes 5 month study time. You should calculate how much time available to you. If one day is 24 hours, so you have 3600 hours ( 5 mo X 30 days x 24 hours). You should subtract with sleeping time, 8 hours a day so total time for sleeping is 1200 hour. For attending the lecture in a class room, suppose you have two courses a day about three hours, so total time for attending the class (from monday to Friday) is 300 hours (5 mox 20 daysx 3 hours).
You should include the time you spent for transportation from home to university vice versa. Suppose you need 4 hours a day because Jakarta is always experience a traffic jam. So you need about 4oo hours (5 mo x 20 days x 4 hours).After you counted all of time you need for sleep,attending the class, commuter time, the rest is about 1700 hours. But you have to provide you spare time with your family in the weekend. You can spent 240 hours on the weekend (5 mo x 8 days x 6 hours). Then you have only left 1460 hours for study. If you divide by 6 courses, you will have approximately 240 hours study for each subject. I think it’s fair enough.
How you will distributed the time available for each subject. Well you can divide, one third for reading, one third for discussion and the rest for making paper,quizz or exam. So 60 hour for reading for each subject, 60 hour for discussion and 60 hour to test your absorption.
When you should spent your time for reading?. I think before enter the class, you should read the material carefully in order to develop interactive communication between student and the lecturer/instructor. Spent 30 to 45 minutes to read the material , try to understand the basic/fundamental of the subject.
If you can practice it daily and make it become your habit every day, I guarantee you will be in group of the best three this semester. Otherwise you will become the last ten in the bottom this semester.
Good luck guys, I hope you enjoy your study for this semester.
Somebody from anywhere.

Announcement

Berhubung penggunaan wordpress sebagai blog untuk Forkom Pariwisata UI sangat tidak fleksibel dan miskin berbagai feature yang sophisticated maka blog Forkom Pariwisata UI sekarang dapat dilongok di :

http://forkomui08.blogspot.com

Bagi anda (orang tua dan siswa) yang berminat untuk mengetahui perkembangan kegiatan mahasiswa D3 Program Vokasi Pariwisata dan isu-isu sekitar kegiatan pariwisata nasional,regional dan internasional, dapat meng-akses blog ini setiap saat pada alamat website tersebut diatas.

Demikian, agar maklum.

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Palembang Wedding Ceremony

Pernah melihat perkawinan adat Palembang? Well, jika belum tampaknya anda perlu berkunjung ke Palembang dan datang ketempat pembuatan songket Palembang di Ing Suro.

Apabila anda kesana, jangan lupa mampir ke Rumah Songket Zainal ayau Cek Ila, you will find many beautiful songket there.

Anda juga dapat melihat foto-foto perkawinan adat Palembang yang menjadi koleksi dari Zainal.

Liburan bulan April nanti, cukup panjang yaitu sekitar 4 hari, mengapa tidak anda manfaatkan? Berliburlah ke Palembang dan carilah kain songket yang bagus di Ing Suro atau kalau anda beruntung, anda dapat menyaksikan perkawinan adat Palembang yang selalu dilengkapi dengan musik Tanjidor.

Admin.

Forkom D3 Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI punya 3 WEB?.

Mengapa?karena dunia informasi sudah sedemikian luas dan orang mempunyai banyak pilihan. Dari sekian banyak pilihan, setiap orang mencoba optimal dengan waktu dan resources yang terbatas dengan menetapkan satu pilihan dari sekian banyak pilihan. Kepada mereka diberikan privilege untuk memilih salah satu apakah multiply,wordpress atau blogger.Tapi ada juga orang-orang yang tidak terbatas dengan resources dan waktu sehingga mereka tidak perlu dengan menentukan pilihan-pilihan,kepada mereka diberikan keleluasaan untuk melihat forkom pada 3 web yang tersedia.

Orang Tua, pelaksana program dan siswa sudah diberikan jembatan komunikasi melalui 3 web yang tersedia. Masalahnya sekarang tinggal apakah fasilitas itu mau dimanfaatkan secara optimal atau tidak. Semuanya terpulang kepada pihak-pihak (diatas) yang merasa berkepentingan untuk memajukan pendidikan pariwisata di Indonesia umumnya, dan di Universitas Indonesia khususnya.

Bagi admin yang diberikan mandat untuk memfasilitasi jembatan komunikasi antar orang tua, universitas dan mahasiswa, berupaya sekuat tenaga untuk memberikan yang terbaik.

Admin.

Welcome to both parents and students

Selamat datang kepada semua Orang Tua Siswa Program Vokasi Pariwisata Universitas Indonesia (UI) tahun 2008. Forum ini dibentuk atas gagasan Ketua Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI, Bapak Drs. Jajang Gunawijaya, MA.Tujuan pembentukan Forum komunikasi ini adalah sebagai jembatan informasi di antara Orang Tua Siswa Peserta Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI dan dengan Universitas. Dengan adanya forum ini, para Orang Tua Siswa dapat saling berkomunikasi,berdiskusi dan bertukar informasi tentang kemajuan akademis dan aktivitas siswa peserta program vokasi pariwisata UI, baik extra maupun intra kurikuler.Kami sangat menantikan saran-saran dan kontribusi yang positif dan konstruktif dari para Orang Tua Siswa Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI-2008.Formatur yang ditunjuk oleh Ketua Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI, telah membentuk paguyuban Orang Tua Siswa dengan pengurus sbb:

Ketua (Chairman): Ibu Tri Rahayu SN,S.Sos,M.Si. (mobile phone: 0811 841 689)

Wakil Ketua (Co-Chairman): Abdul Razak Djailani (mobile phone: 0813 8819 1007; 0852 1622 8816)

Sekretaris (Secretary) 1: Ibu Andita (mobile phone: 0816 11 33047)

Sekretaris (Secretary) 2: Ibu Yasmini (mobile phone: 2626 9440 -flexi)

Bendahara (Treasurer) 1: Ibu Milli Utami (mobile phone: )

Bendahara (Treasurer) 2: Ibu Murniati (mobile phone: 0813 105 90 123)

Humas (Public Relation): Ares (mobile phone: 081218 570 199 )

Demikian, semoga Tuhan selalu melindungi kita. Amin.

Humas,

Ares

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Parents forum for " Orang Tua Siswa Program Vokasi Pariwisata UI-2008". Forum was made base on ideas of Chairman Tourism Vocation Program UI-2008, Drs Jajang Gunawijaya,MA.The objective is to share information between parents as well as parents and school. By establishing this forum, parents and school can utilize this forum for discussion and sharing information regarding the academic progress and activities of the students.We are most welcome for suggestion and contribution from parents of Tourism Vocation Program UI-2008.May God bless us,

Jakarta, January 19,2009

Admin.