Business savvy. People savvy. Self savvy. This trifecta is HTM’s approach to leadership, and the approach of those who lead the department: our outstanding teaching faculty. These well-trained, highly motivated mentors manage core academic courses – hotel, meetings & events, restaurant, and tribal gaming – while still maintaining the essential one-on-one rapport that every student needs and deserves. By putting professionals from CEO to line manager in the classroom, mixing academics with real-world application, social research with job readiness, our faculty develops students with solid business skills who are also adept in leadership, finance, and interpersonal communication – and follow their passion for hospitality. Our faculty knows businesses want men and women who can be real leaders, and they know just how to make that happen.
Office Staff
- Carl Winston, School Director
- Renata Pawluk, Program Coordinator
- Ivy Liu, Administrative Assistant
- Arvee Escobar, Administrative Assistant
- Marian Lim, Development Officer
Student Center for Professional Development
- Brian P. Blake, Internship & Placement Director
- Christina Jeffries, Internship & Placement Associate Director
Hospitality and Tourism Management Faculty
- Bob Alter, Adjunct Faculty & Chairman of Sunstone Hotel Investors
- Jack Boyce, Lecturer
- Jeff Campbell, Lecturer
- Kyle Craig, Adjunct Faculty
- Brad Gessner, Lecturer
- Beth G. Chung-Herrera, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management
- Rachel Peniche, Lecturer
- Lori J. Sipe, M.B.A., Lecturer
- Kate Spilde, MBA, Ph.D., Chair, Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming
- Mark R. Testa, Ph.D., Associate Professor
- Robert Gleason, Adjunct Faculty, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Evans Hotels
Recreation and Tourism Management Faculty
- Larry Beck, Ph.D., Professor
- Jesse Dixon, Ph.D., Professor
- Gene Lamke, Professor Emeritus
- Jim Lustig, Lecturer
- Vinod Sasidharan, Ph.D., Associate Professor
- Jess Ponting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Jason Hemmens, Lecturer
