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The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is an American private college and culinary school specializing in culinary, baking, and pastry arts education. The college's primary campus is located in Hyde Park, New York, with branch campuses in St. Helena and Napa, California; San Antonio, Texas; and Singapore. The college, which was the first to teach culinary arts in the United States, offers associate, bachelor's, and master's degrees, and has the largest staff of American Culinary Federation Certified Master Chefs. The CIA also offers continuing education for professionals in the hospitality industry as well as conferences and consulting services. The college additionally offers recreational classes for non-professionals. The college operates student-run restaurants on its four U.S. campuses.

The CIA was founded in 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut, as a vocational institute for returning veterans of World War II. With a growing student body, it purchased a former Jesuit novitiate in Hyde Park in 1970, which remains its central campus. The college began awarding associate degrees in 1971, bachelor's degrees in 1993, and master's degrees in 2018. Additional campuses were opened in the following years: St. Helena in 1995, Texas in 2008, Singapore in 2010, and Napa in 2016.

History
The New Haven Restaurant Institute was founded by New Haven attorney Frances Roth and Katharine Angell on May 22, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut as a vocational training school for returning World War II veterans. It was the first culinary college in the United States. With assistance from Yale University, the school purchased the Davies mansion in New Haven's Prospect Hill neighborhood. The first class consisted of sixteen students and the faculty included a dietitian, a baker, and a chef. In 1947 the school was renamed the Restaurant Institute of Connecticut to reflect its growing repute; the school's name was changed again to the Culinary Institute of America in 1951.

Enrollment grew to approximately 1,000 students by 1969, beyond the capacity of its original campus, so the school purchased the St. Andrew-on-Hudson Jesuit novitiate in Hyde Park, New York in 1970. In 1971, the college began awarding associate degrees, and opened its doors in Hyde Park in the following year. From 1974 to 1979, the school built three residence halls, a culinary library, a career planning center, and a learning resources center. From 1982 to 1984, the American Bounty and Caterina de' Medici Restaurants and St. Andrew's Café opened. In 1984, the school's continuing education center (later named the J. Willard Marriott Education Center) opened, and the school improved its teaching kitchens and constructed an experimental kitchen and food laboratory. In 1990, the school opened a baking and pastry facility, named two years later as the Shunsuke Takaki School of Baking and Pastry. In 1993, the school opened its Conrad N. Hilton Library and began offering bachelor's degree programs. In 1995, the school's first branch campus opened, the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena, California. In 1998, the Student Recreation Center was opened.

The Apple Pie Bakery Café opened in 2000, and the Colavita Center opened the following year. More residence halls were built at the school's Hyde Park campus in 2004. In 2005, Anton Plaza opened in Hyde Park while the Ventura Center for Menu Research and Development opened in St. Helena. The following year, CIA and the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration partnered to create a cooperative degree program. The school's third campus opened in 2008 in San Antonio.

In April 2008, the CIA teachers' union voted 85 to 9 to approve a vote of no confidence in CIA President Tim Ryan. The faculty created a 13-item list of complaints, including outdated equipment, low-quality uniforms, overcrowded classrooms, and falling standards. There were also complaints directed at Ryan, alleging his leadership style included retaliation against those criticizing him and that he did not listen to staff members. Ryan said the conflict stemmed from two years of labor negotiations, slow growth in enrollment and shifting academic approach which included more liberal arts classes designed to provide a more complete education.

Immediately following the vote, CIA's Board of Trustees gave Ryan a unanimous vote of confidence and extended his contract. Students protested following the Trustee vote, including by hanging signs calling for Ryan to be fired, forming social media groups, and adding to the list of grievances levied at the school. These included the administration's close ties with the corporate food industry and criticized the inclusion of institutional fare, such as frozen waffle fries, in the foods students are required to prepare. The CIA prevented campus newspaper La Papillote from publishing a story about the topic in an effort to prevent students becoming involved in a conflict between faculty and the administration, prompting its editor to resign. The college later apologized and reportedly allowed a full report in the paper's next issue.

In 2010, the CIA opened a campus in Singapore consisting of a facility on the campus of Temasek Polytechnic. In 2012, the CIA began offering a bachelor's degree program in culinary science, and in 2014 introduced a bachelor's degree in applied food studies.

In April 2013, 90 students staged a walkout in protest of declining enforcement of admission and academic standards, failure to enforce dress codes, and too-rapid growth, which they felt devalued degrees received from the CIA. The protests stemmed from a policy change related to required professional kitchen experience. The amount of experience varied from three months to one year; at the time of the protest it was six months and the school counted server experience toward the time spent in kitchens. Provost Mark Erickson said admission standards had risen, citing higher grades and board scores, and that CIA's graduates were more capable.

The CIA opened the Marriott Pavilion Event Space in 2014. In 2015, the college expanded its recreation center and added a new dining facility for students, called The Egg; both are housed in the CIA's Student Commons building. In the same year, the college acquired a portion of Copia, a museum in downtown Napa, California that operated from 2001 to 2008. In 2016, the college opened a campus, the Culinary Institute of America at Copia, which houses the CIA's new Food Business School. The college, which was outgrowing its St. Helena campus, purchased the northern portion of the Copia property for $12.5 million.

In 2015, CIA outsourced jobs in its dishwashing, stewarding, and cleaning departments, terminating 40 positions and requiring workers to reapply for positions with lower wages and benefits. The union representing the workers, the Culinary Craft Association (CCA), joined the Service Employees International Union that year, and the two organizations protested the contract clause allowing CIA to outsource its work.

In May 2017, the CIA began offering electives focused on food photography and food styling in response to the growing popularity of food photography on social media platforms and increased competition for jobs.

In September 2017, the CCA protested plans to lay off 17 union members and hire LCS Facility Group to replace them.

Two months later, The Washington Post reported a student, who alleged she had been sexually assaulted on campus, had her complaint dismissed because she had escaped her attacker and as such, the attacker had not violated the school's sexual misconduct policy.

In 2017, the CIA launched a Bachelor of Science degree program in Hospitality Management and the following year introduced master's-level education with a Master of Professional Studies degree program in Food Business. In 2019, the college began offering a Master of Professional Studies degree program in Wine Management. It launched an online sustainable food systems master's program in 2023.

Also in 2023, the CIA began offering a master's degree in culinary arts. The program is based at the school's Hyde Park campus. It includes courses on business administration and product sourcing, as well as in-person residencies. Residency locations include Michelin star-rated restaurants The French Laundry, SingleThread, and Californios, as well as with Dom Pérignon in the Champagne wine region.

In 2024, the CIA and Kapiʻolani Community College announced a partnership to create a workforce development program in the University of Hawaiʻi system.

Hyde Park, New York
The school's largest and primary campus operates four public restaurants for students to gain experience. Food served at the American Bounty Restaurant highlights Hudson Valley produce and is prepared in the style of cuisines of the Americas. The Bocuse Restaurant serves traditional French food using modern techniques. It was the first of the school's restaurants, and opened as the Epicurean Room and Rabalais Grill in 1973, before being renamed the Escoffier Restaurant (after Auguste Escoffier) in 1974. In 2012 it was again renamed to honor Paul Bocuse, and given a $3 million renovation by Adam Tihany. The Ristorante Caterina de' Medici is a restaurant with a focus on Italian food. The Apple Pie Bakery Café has a casual atmosphere.

The school also frequently creates on-campus pop-up restaurants, including Post Road Brew House. The second of the campus' pop-ups, the gastropub opened in February 2016 in the General Foods Nutrition Center (formerly St. Andrew's Cafe).

The campus offers intercollegiate, intramural, and club athletics. Its intercollegiate program began in 2004, and is affiliated with the Hudson Valley Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.

Napa County, California


The CIA has two campuses in Napa County, California. The campus in St. Helena is known as the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone; the other campus, in the city of Napa, is known as the Culinary Institute of America at Copia. The Greystone campus runs associate degree programs, certificate programs, continuing education courses, and custom classes. The Rudd Center for Professional Wine Studies runs wine instruction classes and a certification program for wine professionals.

The campus also operates two restaurants. The Gatehouse Restaurant offers contemporary dishes using regional ingredients, and the Bakery Café by illy serves food prepared by students in the college's baking and pastry arts degree program. The campus formerly operated the Conservatory Restaurant, which was run by students of the Farm-to-Table concentration of the bachelor's degree program.

The Copia campus was purchased in 2015. The building and grounds were formerly Copia, a museum in downtown Napa that operated from 2001 to 2008. The campus opened in 2016 as the Culinary Institute of America at Copia, to house the CIA's new Food Business School and includes a restaurant, the Restaurant at CIA Copia. Copia also holds food and wine events, classes, and conferences and seminars throughout the year, including the Worlds of Flavor International Conference & Festival.

San Antonio, Texas
The San Antonio campus is located in Downtown San Antonio's Pearl Brewery, and runs associate degree programs in culinary arts and baking and pastry arts, as well as programs for professionals and food enthusiasts. The campus' restaurant, Savor, serves dishes inspired by ingredients and techniques from around the world. The campus also hosts seminars and conferences for foodservice professionals.

Singapore
The Culinary Institute of America, with the Singapore Institute of Technology and Temasek Polytechnic, runs its bachelor's degree program in Culinary Arts Management in Singapore to graduates of Polytechnic institutions who have earned diplomas in hospitality, tourism, or culinary arts. Temasek Polytechnic and the CIA constructed a 30000 sqft educational facility with three teaching kitchens to house the programs.

Organization and administration
The Culinary Institute of America is a nonprofit organization governed by a 24-member board of trustees. These trustees are elected to three-year terms by the Members of the Corporation, the stakeholders of the CIA. Each trustee can serve a maximum of four terms. The board appoints the president and votes on major initiatives for operation of the college, including tuition and fees, nomination of new trustees, operating and capital budgets, planning, major construction projects, and bylaw changes and amendments. The school's board of trustees has 24 members, including Ralph Brennan, Fred Carl, Jr., Thomas Keller, Michael Mina, Robert A. Muh, Charlie Palmer, Roy Yamaguchi, and chairman Jon L. Luther.

The college's president is L. Timothy Ryan, a graduate of the school and its fifth president. The president's cabinet consists of seven vice presidents, the campus's provost, and its chief of staff. There is proportionately a large number of departments, for operating various functions related to foodservice classes and restaurants.

The official school colors are green and gold, chosen as common food colors. The college logo includes a stalk of wheat.

Faculty
As of Fall 2022, the school had 130 full-time and 67 part-time faculty members. The school's website shows faculty instructors and professionals from food, beverage, and hospitality industries, including liberal arts instructors, including American Culinary Federation Certified Master Chefs, Retail Bakers of America Certified Master Bakers, sommeliers, authors, dietitians, food industry executives, historians, and other academics.

Degree programs
The college offers multiple associate and bachelor's degrees programs, as well as master's degree programs. Each associate and bachelor's program requires a 15-week externship at a CIA-approved foodservice operation. The school's degree programs are accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

The Food Business School
In spring 2015, the institute opened the Food Business School for executive and graduate education in business. The school's faculty are instructors at UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and UC Davis; some were chefs, restaurant consultants and other food industry employees. The school involves three separate programs: online classes, 3- or 4-day sessions at the Greystone campus or other areas in the San Francisco Bay Area, and multiple-month-long programs. Tuition varies from $400 for a single course to $4,000 for an "intensive retreat". The program only offers certificates, but not graduate degrees. The school's dean and founder is William Rosenzweig.

Other programs and courses
The college's New York campus also offers continuing education courses and certificate programs. The California and Texas campuses run several continuing education classes, and the California campus also has programs for wine professionals. A variety of programs for food enthusiasts are run as well at all the U.S. campuses. The college partnered with Epicurious in running an online cooking school featuring a variety of culinary classes. The CIA also runs a certification program called ProChef, a program to recognize culinary and academic skills, as well as familiarity with business practices.

The CIA's California campus also runs an accelerated culinary program for students who already have at least a four-year bachelor's degree in hospitality, food-service, or another related field. The program includes the same basic classes as the school's associate degree programs, however the accelerated program does not include the externship requirement, and several classes are run with a faster-paced curriculum or including more in-depth material.

Conferences and summits
The CIA holds various conferences, summits, and retreats for professionals in food and related industries, focusing on topics such as world cuisines, flavor development, health and wellness, nutrition science, volume foodservice, sustainability, and technology. These include the Worlds of Flavor International Conference and Festival; Menus of Change; Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives; and the Global Plant-Forward Culinary Summit.

Libraries and museums


The school's Archives and Special Collections department is located in the Hyde Park campus' Conrad N. Hilton Library. Highlights of the collection includes a Roman amphora displayed in the Archives Reading Room, menu covers for New York City's Chanterelle Restaurant which were designed by notable artists, and a 1556 Latin edition of Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae, volume 15.

The Greystone campus maintains the Margie Schubert Library, located adjacent to the school's teaching kitchens.

The CIA also operates a college museum, the Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, at its Copia campus in Napa.

Admissions
Undergraduate admission to the Culinary Institute of America is characterized by College Board as "not selective". As of April 2024, The Princeton Review gave the university an admissions selectivity rating of 75 out of 99.

In fall 2022, the school received 1,887 applications, of which 95 percent were accepted. The admitted students' academic profile showed an SAT range of 930 to 1200 and an ACT composite range of 17 to 26. The school began accepting the Common Application in 2016, after becoming a member on August 1 of that year.

Additionally, for the 2016–2017 academic year, the Culinary Institute of America received 443 transfer applications of which 98% were accepted, and 70% enrolled. The Culinary Institute of America admits all students on a need-blind basis.

Enrollment
In fall 2022, the university had an enrollment of 3,005 undergraduate students, of which 415 were transfer students, and 119 graduate students; 95 percent of students were enrolled full-time. Of all the students, 18 percent were from New York and 12 percent were international students. Approximately 82 percent of the student body was 24 years of age or younger. The average high school grade point average was 3.0, and 68 percent of undergraduate students lived on campus.

As of 2024, the school offered certificates in culinary arts; associate degrees in baking and pastry arts and culinary arts; bachelor's degrees in food business management, hospitality management, applied food studies, and culinary science, as well as culinary arts and baking and pastry arts degrees for transfer students; and master's degrees in culinary arts, food business, Sustainable food systems, and wine and beverage management.

Publications
mise en place is the college's newsletter for alumni. The newsletter aims to improve the relationship between the school and its alumni by providing information of interest about the college, its alumni, and students; covering of major issues and events concerning the college; and featuring the leadership and contributions of the school's alumni.

La Papillote, the school's student newspaper, was established in 1979. The newspaper's stated purpose is to report the news of the institution to the students and other members of the campus community. The newspaper also examines contemporary issues of the industry and other topics. The school's student life department oversees production of the newspaper and fills its editor-in-chief position, which is held by a current student. The paper uses submissions from students, chefs, and outside professionals.

Branding
The CIA has a brand licensing program that sells branded products for foodservice operations and households, and it also publishes cookbooks for professional and home use. The school's general cookbook, The Professional Chef also has an interactive iPad edition that PC Magazine called "a new frontier for books." During the late 1990s, the CIA produced the PBS television show Cooking Secrets of the CIA.

Events
Beginning in April 2007, the school hosts the CIA Leadership Awards event annually to honor people for success and achievements in the foodservice industry. The events are organized as fundraising dinners, with CEOs and other prominent members of the industry attending, sponsoring student scholarships. At the Leadership Awards event, the school issues the Augie Award, named for Auguste Escoffier, the French chef and restaurateur who popularized and modernized French cuisine. In 2017, Shep Gordon, Jacques Pépin, and Martha Stewart were each recipients of the award.

In 2017, the CIA began hosting its Thomas Keller Golf Classic, a golf outing and fundraiser for student scholarships. The school hosted the inaugural event on June 17 at Silverado Resort and the school's Copia campus in Napa County, near Keller's restaurant the French Laundry.

Notable people
The CIA has approximately 50,000 graduates in the culinary industry. Some of the college's notable alumni include:


 * Grant Achatz
 * John Besh
 * Richard Blais
 * Jérôme Bocuse
 * Anthony Bourdain
 * David Burke
 * Anne Burrell
 * Michael Chiarello
 * Roy Choi
 * Mike Colameco
 * Scott Conant
 * Cat Cora
 * Dan Coudreaut
 * Rocco DiSpirito
 * John Doherty
 * Steve Ells
 * Todd English
 * Dean Fearing
 * Susan Feniger
 * Larry Forgione
 * Amanda Freitag
 * Duff Goldman
 * Johnny Iuzzini
 * Vikas Khanna
 * Spike Mendelsohn
 * Michael Mina
 * Rick Moonen
 * Sara Moulton
 * Rajat Parr
 * Charlie Palmer
 * L. Timothy Ryan
 * Walter Scheib
 * Barton Seaver
 * Michael Smith
 * Kerry Simon
 * Michael Symon
 * Roy Yamaguchi
 * Geoffrey Zakarian

In popular culture
Several books have been written about the school. Journalist Michael Ruhlman, in his first book about the CIA, The Making of a Chef, documents his experiences as he passes through the classes at an accelerated rate. In another book, The Soul of a Chef, he documents seven chefs taking the ACF Master Chef test held there semi-annually. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain also features an in-depth discussion of the author's education at the CIA. The book Beaten, Seared, and Sauced: On Becoming a Chef at The Culinary Institute of America by Jonathan Dixon, provides a first-hand experience of a student's experiences at the CIA. The 1995 film Heavy was partially filmed at the school, using interiors and exteriors of its buildings. In 2015, the SyFy show Ghost Hunters filmed an episode about the school's Hyde Park campus.