Despite the fact that IUP is considered a
relatively large university with 15,000 students,
the advantage of our program is that we actually
spend a whole year with our students as opposed
to just maybe one semester and a three-credit
class, so we as faculty really get to know
our students really well, both inside and
outside of school. We have a variety of options
that they can come in and take part in. We
have an ice carving club which is totally
volunteerů on a totally volunteer basis.
We also have open houses that the students
come and work for, so we get to work with
them not only in the classroom but outside
of the classroom. Some of our faculty travel
and do demonstrations and certain things for
certain organizations, and we get students
to volunteer and travel with us to take care
of some of those opportunities. The ratio
of student to teacher is about twenty to one
in the culinary kitchen, in the labs. So the
hands-on experience and the one-to-one interaction
is really, really one of our strong points
of our program.
