MSU Hospitality faculty contribute 'intensely' to hospitality, tourism journals from 1992 to 2001

MSU Hospitality faculty

Faculty members in The School of Hospitality Business in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University are among the most published, when compared with peers at comparable schools worldwide, according to a new study.

The study revealed that between 1992 and 2001, 41 faculty members contributed 248 articles to 11 hospitality and tourism journals - for a "mean" average of 6.2 per faculty, more than any other school.

"Although there are many measures of an institution's quality, published research is one of the more important and more visible methods used to rate academic programs," wrote the authors of "An Analysis of Hospitality and Tourism Research: Institutional Contributions," published in the August issue of the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research. "As Heck and Cooley (1988) note, 'published research leads the intellectual development of a discipline, and it is generally believed that significant research and quality teaching go hand in hand.'"

Schools with the highest faculty productivity, according to the study, were Cornell University, MSU and Virginia Tech, followed by Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Nevada at Las Vegas. However, MSU's "mean" of 6.2 was considerably higher than any other school studied. Cornell and Virginia Tech had mean scores of 3.32 and 4.22, respectively.

"This article is a showcase of the special melding of what MSU does best: academics, research, outreach and engagement," said MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon. "Truly the scholarly contributions from The School of Hospitality Business are a leading example of how research is not just for the traditional programs in science, medicine and technology, but rather research is far-reaching to every program of our university."

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