The Resort at Longboat Key Club and USF Sarasota-Manatee (USFSM) recently announced a key regional partnership and new training program for USFSM students. As the official “Teaching Hotel” for the College of Hospitality & Technology Leadership, the Resort will be the site of The Teaching Lab program that will accommodate hospitality students each semester in a rotation that includes operational and administrative divisions of the Resort and Club. The inaugural program will allow students to shadow key leaders at the resort through Leadership, Front Desk, Housekeeping and Food & Beverage operations giving them “real-time” access to the processes and protocols of successfully managing these critical areas in a hospitality setting. Each student will be expected to spend a minimum of four hours in the four departments for a total of 16 hours of on-site training. Students will be required to write a reflection paper at the end of the training period. They will also be required to attend the resort’s mandatory Associate Orientation Program prior to their training tenure. The inaugural group of students will arrive at the resort on September 16, 2014.  It is anticipated the program, which begins with 23 students, will be expanded over the course of the upcoming semesters to include areas of Lodging Management and Restaurant Management. 

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