{"id":29,"date":"2017-08-03T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hfcc.mycareerfocus.org\/fall-2017-volume-1-issue-1\/historic-first-4-students-become-the-first-students-to-earn-bachelors-degrees-from-hfc\/"},"modified":"2017-09-26T01:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T01:52:43","slug":"historic-first-4-students-become-the-first-students-to-earn-bachelors-degrees-from-hfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hfcc.mycareerfocus.org\/fall-2017-volume-8-issue-2\/historic-first-4-students-become-the-first-students-to-earn-bachelors-degrees-from-hfc\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic First: 4 Students Become the First Students to Earn Bachelor\u2019s Degrees from HFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Four HFC students made history at HFC\u2019s 2017 Commencement Ceremony this past spring, becoming the very first students to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree from the College. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">These four students \u2013 Beverly Etchen, Carl Matsey II, Brenda McCall, and Valencia Purry \u2013 graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts\/Hotel Restaurant Management. Launched in 2016, this is the first bachelor\u2019s degree program to be offered through HFC. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cThis is awesome. I came back to school after 40 years and now I get to be part of history,\u201d said Etchen, of Hamtramck. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">HFC\u2019s bachelor\u2019s degree program represents an exceptional enhancement to its award-winning Culinary Arts program. It stands out from other degree programs in hospitality management at other four-year educational institutions for a couple of reasons. First, it provides a great deal of hands-on lab classes versus traditional instruction in a classroom setting. Second, students will study and practice cooking and baking; study and practice service; and study and practice supervision and operations management. They must also complete two internships during the four-year program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">After being accepted to HFC, students can enroll in either the associate degree program in Culinary Arts or the associate degree program in Hotel\/Restaurant Management as their program of study. After approximately two semesters and completion of the Culinary Skills Certificate (or a transfer equivalent), students can request admission to the Bachelor of Science degree program. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cI just always loved to cook. Everyone kept telling me how good my food was, so that was the deciding factor for me to enroll in this program. The overall experience has been an amazing ride. It\u2019s gone by like a big blur. This is just an amazing accomplishment in and of itself. It\u2019s afforded me the opportunity to make money and move further ahead into an industry that I\u2019ve come to love. I am very proud of my accomplishments, but I am even more proud that I can be a role model and an example for my daughters,\u201d said McCall, of Detroit. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Purry is no stranger to the Culinary Arts program. In addition to earning her bachelor\u2019s degree from HFC, she also earned an associate degree in Hotel-Restaurant Management in 2009 and an associate degree in Culinary Arts in 2015. Additionally, she earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in Applied Science from Siena Heights University (SHU) in 2013. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cIt was a great opportunity. It\u2019s like a second home to me. The whole hospitality department encouraged me to keep going and get my bachelor\u2019s degree. That was it for me,\u201d said Purry. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Further, Purry is a lab associate and adjunct lecturer in the program. She also handles front-of-the-house managerial duties for Fifty-One O One, HFC\u2019s student-run restaurant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">\u201cIt is with great pride and greater pleasure that I was able to see the College\u2019s first four students graduate with their bachelor\u2019s degrees during my presidency,\u201d said HFC President Dr. Stanley Jensen. \u201cThey\u2019ve earned it and they have worked hard. This is indeed a proud moment for the College and a prime example of how HFC is a FutureDriven educational institution. Hopefully they are the first of many who will graduate with a baccalaureate degree from HFC.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfcc.edu\/academics\/explore\/culinary-arts-hospitality\">hfcc.edu\/academics\/explore\/culinary-arts-hospitality. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\"><em>Kurt Anthony Krug<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four HFC students made history at HFC\u2019s 2017 Commencement Ceremony this past spring, becoming the very first students to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree from the College. These four students \u2013 Beverly Etchen, Carl Matsey II, Brenda McCall, and Valencia Purry \u2013 graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Culinary Arts\/Hotel Restaurant Management. 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