Stakeholder Engagement: Connecting Students, Alumni, & Industry Partners
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM (EDT)
Category: Signature Events
Registration Information
This interactive session is included with your Governor's Conference registration and is offered exclusively to invited hospitality and tourism educators. To help us prepare materials and facilitate small-group discussions, advance registration for this session is required.
An Interactive Networking Session for Hospitality & Tourism Educators
The strongest hospitality and tourism programs are built on meaningful relationships. Join hospitality and tourism educators from across Tennessee for an engaging, hands-on networking session focused on strengthening the connections that support student success, from recruitment through career placement.
Through guided networking rotations and collaborative discussion, participants will exchange ideas, explore common challenges, and share successful strategies for engaging students, alumni, industry partners, advisory boards, and campus and community partners. Together, we'll identify practical ideas and new opportunities to strengthen hospitality education across Tennessee.
Whether you're looking to expand employer partnerships, increase student engagement, activate alumni, or strengthen your advisory board, you'll leave with fresh ideas, new connections, and actionable strategies you can implement on your own campus.
Participants will leave with:
- New connections with hospitality and tourism educators from across Tennessee
- Practical stakeholder engagement strategies and best practices
- Fresh ideas for strengthening partnerships across the student lifecycle
- Actionable takeaways to enhance engagement both on and off campus
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