Ten Years Later

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Although the number of four-year hospitality programs in the United States increased fourfold in the ten years between 1982 and 1992, the overall description of the people teaching hospitality management has not changed radically in that period. The notable shifts include the growth in the proportion of female faculty members to a stillmeager one-third, the increased incidence of professors holding business degrees and a decline in liberal-arts majors, and the substantial retirement of the pre-babyboom generation of educators. The picture of hospitality educators comprises a large group in their 40s, many professors who have had fairly high-level experience in the industry before turning to teaching, and an academy with a smaller proportion of tenured faculty than ten years ago. Ironically, the percentage of doctoral-degree holders has not increased substantially, and the ethnic profile of hospitality educators remains overwhelmingly Caucasian. The demographic profile of educators in this survey casts doubt on the current belief that hospitality programs will need to hire many new doctoral candidates.

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