Chipotle Launches Accelerated Business Degree Customized for Its Employees
May 02 2017 - 9:09AM
Business Wire
Chipotle Expands Educational Offerings for Employees Through
Partnership with Guild Education and Bellevue University
Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG) has launched a customized
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, further expanding its current
educational assistance program with Guild Education. Available
through Bellevue University, the degree integrates hands-on,
applied learning with theory to accelerate career growth within the
restaurant and is open to Chipotle employees only. Bellevue
University, a private, non-profit, regionally accredited
institution and trailblazer in higher education, worked
closely with Chipotle to develop the curriculum.
“This degree enables our employees to apply what they learn in
the classroom to their work at Chipotle and vice versa,” said Steve
Ells, founder, chairman and CEO at Chipotle. “Employees will gain a
solid understanding of business operations including people
development, marketing, and decision making. The new degree program
extends a series of education benefits we’ve been putting in place
over the last couple of years to help better equip our employees
for success at Chipotle and beyond.”
The degree is designed around a Chipotle employee’s schedule.
When combined with credit from a previous school and credits earned
through Chipotle’s internal training, it can be completed in as
little as eighteen months. This program also has a cohort format,
which allows Chipotle students to share and learn from their own
organizational and real-world experiences.
“One of the best ways we can help working students succeed is to
leverage their real-life experiences and skills,” said Rebecca
Murdock, dean of the College of Business at Bellevue University.
“With Chipotle’s help, we have built a truly best in class business
degree program.”
This customized degree is one of more than 30 degrees offered
through Chipotle’s educational assistance program in partnership
with Guild Education. The educational assistance program gives
Chipotle employees an opportunity to earn college credits and
pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees while working at the
company.
Students who enroll in the new Bachelor’s Degree in Business are
eligible for up to $5,250 a year in tuition assistance from
Chipotle as well as other benefits, including a personal success
coach who will assist in the program enrollment and application for
federal financial aid.
ABOUT CHIPOTLE
Steve Ells, Founder, Chairman and CEO, started Chipotle with the
idea that food served fast did not have to be a typical fast food
experience. Today, Chipotle continues to offer a focused menu of
burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads made from fresh,
high-quality raw ingredients, prepared using classic cooking
methods and served in an interactive style allowing people to get
exactly what they want. Chipotle seeks out extraordinary
ingredients that are not only fresh, but that are raised
responsibly, with respect for the animals, land, and people who
produce them. Chipotle prepares its food using only real, whole
ingredients, and is the only national restaurant brand that uses
absolutely no added colors, flavors or other industrial additives
typically found in fast food. Chipotle opened with a single
restaurant in Denver in 1993 and now operates more than 2,300
restaurants. For more information, visit Chipotle.com
ABOUT BELLEVUE UNIVERSITY
Bellevue University has been a trailblazer in the higher
education industry since its inception in 1966. Now, in 2016,
they're paving the way. Bellevue University effectively engages
students in earning awards and degrees that prepare them to thrive
in a connected, competitive world. They provide students with a
powerful foundation for personal value creation, instilling the
confidence they need to take control of their lives and to be
responsible citizens of the global community. They teach the value
of a free market, capitalist economic system and the importance of
preserving our American heritage of a democratic and free way of
life.
ABOUT GUILD EDUCATION
Guild Education is bridging the gap between education and
employment to help working adults navigate the two worlds of work
and college. Their platform enables employers to offer
education-as-a-benefit, with tuition benefit policies that align
business goals, like talent development and retention, with
affordable education programs that employees love. Guild’s network
of nonprofit universities and learning providers offer a consortium
of classes, programs, and college degrees.
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