A growing job market in the culinary arts industry is pushing enrollment upward in Baker College's culinary arts school, and that has prompted educational leaders to approve construction of a new state-of-the-art facility on the former Muskegon Mall site. The hope is that increased visibility will increase enrollment college-wide.
According to excerpts from the story:
In planning to build a new $11 million culinary arts school in the heart of downtown, Baker College of Muskegon aims for a higher position both educationally and locally.
Baker College views the new home for the culinary arts school as becoming a regional, perhaps even national, draw for students seeking to become chefs or food-service managers.
The college wants a culinary arts school that is unique in the Midwest, said Alex Erdman, a master chef and dean of culinary arts at the college.
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