The buildings will include flex classrooms, a spacious student commons, faculty offices, group study rooms, executive-director offices for graduate education and professional development, and a conference room.
The Collins College’s expansion is fully funded by private donations from longtime supporters of the college, including namesakes Carol and Jim Collins, who pledged to match $5 million toward the project. Together, Panda Restaurant Group founders Andrew and Peggy Cherng, The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation, prominent Inland Empire businessman Eugene Park, and Richard N. Frank and his late wife, Mary Alice, collectively donated the other $5 million.
Founded in 1973, The Collins College of Hospitality Management is the first and largest four-year hospitality-management degree program in California and the only hospitality-management college on the West Coast. Approximately 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students receive education in the state-of-the-art Collins College facilities, where they learn to apply hospitality-management theories and concepts to real-world settings. Part of this unique academic experience includes managing and operating the full-service restaurant at Kellogg Ranch. For more information, visit http://collins.csupomona.edu.