Undergraduate Student Experience

There’s much more to airline and cruise travel than buying a ticket, boarding, and disembarking. Explore the many facets of these complex industries, which carefully engineer every detail of the customer experience, from fare pricing to meal preparation and service delivery. Expand your passion for operations, marketing, finance, engineering, technology, or any other business function beyond land.

The Nolan School’s chapter of this nationwide industry organization is the perfect way to learn more about one of the cornerstones of hospitality and build your network. This chapter of AH&LA aims to build meaningful professional connections between the organization and Cornell.

A powerful venue for building relationships with student and alumni Hotelies, the CHS, CC is the umbrella organization under which all other Nolan School clubs and organizations fall. The biggest of all Nolan School clubs (with more than 900 members), CHS, CC focuses on creating networking opportunities and helping students get involved with extracurricular hospitality pursuits. Once you matriculate in the Nolan School, you’re automatically a member of CHS, CC.

Share your passion for all things hospitality real estate: finance, banking, and development. Meet with like-minded students to explore and discuss the industry, trends in the marketplace, and current challenges, and network with influential real estate professionals.

Encouraging Nolan School hospitality students to foster their lifelong love of service in the context of social issues and the greater community, this club helps members find volunteer opportunities to apply their hospitality learning and knowledge in the service of bettering their communities. HS2 was formerly known as Hotelies Volunteering Today.

Have a passion for design? With its focus on the customer experience, hospitality is one of the most design-intensive industries out there, and The Grid provides a creative outlet for Cornell students to produce brilliance at the intersection of hospitality and design. Activities include general meetings, program workshops, guest speakers, and company visits.

Gain insight and learn about challenges and issues facing women leaders in the industry through this club, which provides education, resources, and opportunities to help women succeed in hospitality. Guest speakers, networking events, and a one-on-one mentorship program are some of the features of the club. WLIH seeks to provide a supportive, friendly environment for young professionals to ask questions, engage in dialogue, and work together to break stereotypes and the glass ceiling while creating strong bonds.

The Cornell University National Restaurant Association gathers students, alumni, and industry leaders with a focused interest in food and beverage. This club fosters the collaboration of like-minded professionals to build their gastronomical knowledge and networks in a supportive environment. Members learn from each other and share their learning and appreciation of the culinary world in this club, formerly called the Epicurean Society.

Bring your problem-solving skills and energy to this club, which helps hotels and their partners improve their branding and marketing. The Cornell chapter of the worldwide HSMAI organization, the club runs a consultancy called Vantage Brand Consulting that gives students a practical learning experience by helping real clients build their businesses while supporting our community.

Explore hospitality-focused entrepreneurship in HE, where you’ll experiment with and express your ideas and acquire skills to turn them into tangible reality. This club offers industry-leading entrepreneur and visionary guest speakers, as well as workshops for hands-on experience to develop your business acumen.

Cornell has its own chapter of this national nonprofit organization, which helps minority students further their hospitality careers with resources, tools, and information. NSMH works with industry partners around the world to foster diverse, inclusive, and supportive working environments.

A communications platform produced for Hotelies by Hotelies, The 180 allows students to express and share their views on the Nolan School and Cornell culture on an ongoing blog, as well as capture community memories through an annual print publication. Championing the community’s diversity and providing a platform for all Nolan School clubs, this organization celebrates Hotelie culture and community.