program, Palabiyik was considering other job offers at universities in Hawaii, Missouri and Pennsylvania.
“Framingham State stood out to me because starting a hospitality program was a similar challenge to opening a hotel.” he says.
Coming to Framingham State gave Palabiyik a chance to solve what he saw as a long-standing problem. “When I was in Maryland managing a hotel, I also taught at a nearby university. And I needed employees, maybe 50, in different departments. At the same time, I had a couple hundred hospitality students looking for jobs. But I felt they weren’t