Faculty & Research
Endowment Giving Opportunities
Naming the Center
By naming the center, your company name will be linked to all of the center's activities, facilities, and media, as well as on correspondence to the industry. Your name could appear on nearly 415,000,000 media impressions per year in center articles, which are published in such major media as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Albany Times-Union, CNN, and the major trade and travel publications.
Naming the Academic Directorship
The center's academic director is a tenured faculty member appointed by the dean of Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. Your company name could be listed next to the academic director's name in international media that cover center publications, as listed above. Your company name will appear with the director's on CHR Reports and Tools that circulate to 65,000 leaders in the hospitality industry.
Naming the Editorship of the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly
The Cornell Hospitality Quarterly (CQ) is the premier journal of applied research serving hospitality practitioners and scholars around the world. The award-winning CQ, published by the Center for Hospitality Research, is one of the oldest and most respected hospitality journals. Your name would appear in all correspondence from the editor, which includes 8 to 10 press releases per year, more than 10,000 letters to academic and corporate organizations, and the CQ web site.
Naming the Research Fellows Program
This program provides support to faculty members who have a proven record and extraordinary potential to explore research projects that directly enhance the goal of linking research to industry needs and applications. Your name would be linked to the program itself and all relevant correspondence and publicity in conjunction with the fellows' research studies.
Naming the Center's Industry Lecture Series
This lecture series brings industry leaders to the Hotel School to exchange ideas with the center's research fellows and Hotel School faculty members. Your name would be linked to the programs and their related publicity.
CHR Faculty Excellence in Research Award
Three research awards are provided annually to faculty members who have published an outstanding research article. Awards are presented by the dean of the School of Hotel Administration at the annual Hotel Ezra Cornell dinner each spring. These awards could be presented by the donor of the naming gift.
CHR Student Excellence in Research Award
Four awards are available for undergraduate and graduate students annually. Two $500 undergraduate research awards and two $500 graduate research awards are presented by the dean at the annual Hotel Ezra Cornell dinner. These awards could be presented by the donor of the naming gift, and the donor's name used in conjunction with the award publicity.
CHR Roundtables, Conferences, and Events
The center organizes and coordinates at least two topical roundtables each year, as intimate meeting places for forward thinkers who wish to engage in serious discussion on industry issues. The donor's name would be linked to the program on all publicity and relevant correspondence from the center.
CHR Visiting Scholars Program
The Visiting Scholars Program brings innovative academic scholars and thinkers from other leading universities and organizations to the center and the School of Hotel Administration for an interactive dialogue with academic researchers, students, and industry executives.
Contact
For more information on the center's giving opportunities, please contact Joseph Strodel, Jr., director of corporate relations, at (607) 255-4646 or js343@cornell.edu