Kimberly J Rosenbaum
Associate Professor College of Hospitality & Business Department of Hospitality Charlotte
Biography
Kimberly Rosenbaum earned her B.A. in Food Service Management from JWU and her M.H.A. from University of Nevada Las Vegas. She joined the JWU faculty in 2003 at the Norfolk Campus. Her career highlights prior to JWU include food and beverage manager of a private country club in Virginia and service director for a fine dining southern bistro in Georgia.
She also spent 10 years at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida. Rosenbaum started her career in the college internship program and worked her way up to restaurant guest services manager. She worked at various locations throughout her career at Disney — The Grand Floridian Resort, EPCOT’s Living Seas and The United Kingdom are some of the most memorable. Her focus was and still is on training and development, service excellence, and hospitality management. Her areas of expertise at JWU include special event management, human resource management and food service management.
It is important to Rosenbaum to bring her experiences and those of industry leaders into the classroom. She encourages and assists students in seeking professional experiences that are relevant to their current career interests. Rosenbaum facilitates several on campus events that are student run, events that the Charlotte JWU community are invited to be a part of. Two of the more popular student centric events are Project Gingerbread and Johnson & Wales and Tails.
Education
MA, University of Nevada
Hospitality Administration
Certified Dining Room Professional
Federation Dining Room Professionals
Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE)
AHLEI
Excellence in Teaching Award
Johnson & Wales University
Teacher of the Year
Johnson & Wales University
Low Country Award
Johnson & Wales University
Certified Hosp Educator
National Association of Catering and Events
The 2025 University Scholarship and Best Practices Expo, “Classification of the Exhibition Event Market: A Factor-Cluster Approach,” JWU, Charlotte, NC. (February 14, 2025).
SEVT, “THE EFFECTS OF INFORMATION SEEKING SOURCES OF ENTERTAINMENT VARIABLES AND EVALUATION INDICATORS,” South Carolina University, Columbia, United States. (November, 2024).
NACE, “Hospitality & Culinary Education Power Hour,” National Association for Catering and Events (NACE), Charlotte, NC, United States. (April 16, 2024).
SEVT, “Analysis of Exhibition Dimensions, Expenditure, and Evaluation Indicators across Multi-Generations,” USC, Columbia, SC. (November 17, 2023).
The 6th Annual Faculty Scholarship Showcase, “Analysis of the Exhibition Event Market,” JWU, Charlotte, NC, United States. (April, 2023).
The 2022 Sport Entrainment and Venues Tomorrow Conference, “Assessing the Relationships between Exhibition Dimensions and Satisfaction along with Intended Behavior of Exhibition Visitors across Five Generations,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States. (November, 2022).