LOWELL The idea of providing students in Middlesex Community College’s hospitality and culinary arts program real-world, experiential learning in hotel operations at an actual hotel was the focus of a Friday fact-finding tour of UMass Lowell’s Inn & Conference Center requested by state Sen. Ed Kennedy.
More than 30 years ago, former Middlesex Community College President Carole Cowan and her Board of Trustees engaged in a conversation with the city of Lowell about the potential for Middlesex to acquire the nine-story hotel in our Lowell campus’ backyard, which at the time, was the Doubletree Hotel.