4th Quarter 2025 Newsletter

Dr. Arturo Cervantes, DBA MBA

Chief Operating Officer / College Director

Culinary Institute Lenotre

CIL Family,

I am enthused to share some news regarding various successes enriching our students’ education and experience at Lenotre. Over the course of 2025, along with our 5 Starts, our Bachelor of Science Degree programs have attracted near 50 students who have enrolled and are currently attending classes towards their degree in the Bachelor of Science Degree in Culinary Arts and Bachelor of Science Degree in Hospitality and Restaurant Management.

These Higher Education degrees were developed to enhance management potential for career mobility and entrepreneurial opportunities for the learner. They include distance education – hybrid (combination of Online and In-person) learning modality and have been offered since January 2025. As our CIL Alumni, we wanted to reach out and notify you of this great opportunity once again for you to continue your education with a Bachelor of Science degree when the time is right for you.

As an alumnus, the Culinary Institute Lenotre (CIL) will be accepting and crediting all of your courses from CIL applicable toward the bachelor's degree program of your choice. While each student’s academic and financial journey is different, on average, we expect a CIL alumnus to complete their bachelor’s degree between 8-9 terms (quarter or full-time). The expected quarter credit hours (QCH), on average, will be approximately 90 QCHs and a near 80 QCHs for the B.S. Degree in Culinary Arts and the B.S. Degree in Hotel and Restaurant Management, respectively.

The International Externship Team has been busy with new initiatives by providing new sites with great opportunities for new experiences in culture and menus for the bachelor’s degree students, as well as for all others. The Externships are both domestic (U.S.A.) and international. The new affiliations with Intercontinental Hotel and Marriott International have yielded new opportunities in North America and abroad.

 In addition to our existing Puebla, Mexico site and Corsica, France, the expansion of our French Affiliations with Anantara Plaza Hotel in Nice, France, has been very enriching for students. This is a 5-star Hotel located on the French Riviera overlooking Le Jardin Albert 1er and Baie des Anges, a beautiful historic nineteenth-century building. Inaugurated in 1848 in old-world elegance, this location was once home to the city's first luxury hotel in Belle Èpoque façade, the Hotel de France. We have sent our groups of students for this year’s terms and are having a wonderful experience. Lastly, we have added new international sites/countries to our externships in Mexico, Jordan, and, very soon, to Spain and Italy.

Students interested in our International and Domestic Externships outside of the Houston GMA are available for our students from every program. That said, interested students applying for international or other domestic sites outside Houston will undergo a board selection process.

For more details on our new international externships in Nice & Corsica, France, and Puebla, Mexico, please visit with our International Alliances Manager, Teresa Zabala, at 713-358-5078.

My staff and I are here to help in any way possible.

Happy Holidays to you from our family to yours!!