Updated at 8:48 a.m., Tuesday, September 25, 2007
KCC tourism department wins national accreditation
Advertiser Staff
The Hospitality and Tourism Department at Kapi'olani Community College was recently granted accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Hospitality Management Programs, and is one of only 12 two-year colleges in the nation to receive the CAHM recognition. The commission granted the department with the maximum seven-year accreditation status effective until summer 2014, a KCC news release stated.Accreditation is a status granted to an educational program that has been found to meet or exceed stated standards of educational quality in terms of its mission and objectives, evaluation and planning, administration and governance, curriculum, faculty and staff, student services and activities, and resources.
To achieve this accreditation, a total of 49 faculty, staff, students and industry partners researched and wrote a very comprehensive self-study report of Kapi'olani CC's hospitality and tourism education programs. The self-study report was then evaluated by a group of three commission and industry officials, who also visited the college in May 2007 and evaluated the department's laboratories and classrooms, and conducted numerous interviews with the faculty, administrators, students and industry executives. The team's findings resulted in a recommendation report to the commission that was discussed and reviewed along with the program's self-study report at the annual commission meeting in July 2007.
