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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"dining services"”.
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Cultural implications of organizational change in dining services
… change related to the structure and delivery of dining services at a public research flagship higher education institution. Dining services provide vital facilities that play an important role in meeting higher education institutional goals. Understanding the cultural implications of …
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Working On Campus: The Impact of International Student Employees' Dining Services Job Experience on The Development of Intercultural Communication Competence
… many international students work for dining services on campus to earn extra income. This paper explored the process of how working for dining services on an American university campus influences international student employees’ intercultural communication competence. The …
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Factors related to job satisfaction and intent to turnover of part-time student employees in three university dining services in Iowa
… labor shortage problem in university and college dining services. Antecedents and consequence of job satisfaction were identified based on previous studies. Supervisor quality, orientation and training, feed back (job characteristics), and demographics were identified antecedents. All these …
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Dishing It Out: Reimagining Multicultural College Dining Through Student-Centered Design
Dining halls are central spaces in colleges, fostering not only nourishment but also cultural connection and community. However, when dining centers fall short in catering to the needs of their multicultural student body, students are often left feeling isolated and even further from home. Using …
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Investigation of strategies to decrease food waste in college and university foodservice
… strategies to decrease waste in university dining facilities. Component one assessed students’ beliefs and behaviors toward food waste in a selected dining center. The relationships between students’ food waste behavior, sustainability beliefs, and demographics were evaluated with the use of …
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Acetone, Butanol, and Ethanol (ABE) Production from Food Waste via Clostridium beijerinckii
… processing facility operated by Virginia Tech Dining Services, was characterized for use as a feedstock for ABE fermentation. Water, sugar, starch, fiber, protein, fat and ash concentrations in each of food waste samples were determined. ABE fermentation of these wastes was performed using …
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Environmental and economic impacts of UIUC food purchasing
… selected metrics to food procured by campus dining services at the University Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in 2013. The American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) is a voluntary effort through which signatories have agreed to perform baseline carbon …
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Wasted treasure in the trash: evaluating the diversion and reduction systems of food waste in an institutional setting based on environmental, economic and social implications
… interviews with numerous university departments, dining hall management and staff, students and outside organizations. Based on quantitative information gathered from the interviews, cost-benefit analyses of each of the reduction and diversion systems currently utilized at UIUC are highlighted. …