Appointment As President of The Culinary Institute of America
In 2001, Ferdinand Metz, C.M.C., president of The Culinary Institute of America for more than 20 years, stepped down to become president emeritus of the college. After an extensive search to fill the vacancy of president at the CIA, the college’s Board of Trustees elected Tim Ryan from a group of finalists at its meeting in New York City on October 11, 2001. On November 1, 2001, he began his tenure as the fifth president of The Culinary Institute of America. Following his appointment, Ryan said, “My mission is to take a great institution and make it even better. In doing so we will move in some new and quite exciting directions. It is sort of like being named the manager of the New York Yankees—that is a pretty good place to be. We want to preserve the continuity. But at the same time it is a new world and there are plenty of challenges. We are going to change to meet those challenges.”
Highlights of Ryan’s presidency include expansion of student housing facilities and a new Admissions Center on the Hyde Park campus; the launch of associate degree programs at the CIA at Greystone; and the 2008 opening of the college’s second branch campus, The Culinary Institute of America, San Antonio.
On April 23, 2008, the faculty of The Culinary Institute of America voted no confidence in his presidency, by a vote of 85 to 9. The board subsequently confirmed unanimously their confidence in him, and extended his contract.
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