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Former names | College Courses, Inc. (1956–1958), Quincy Junior College (1958–1990) |
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| Motto | Let's get to work |
| Type | Publiccommunity college |
| Established | 1958 |
| Accreditation | NECHE |
| President | Richard DeCristofaro |
| Students | 2,602[1](fall 2022) |
| Location | ,, United States 42°15′11″N71°00′11″W / 42.253005°N 71.003177°W /42.253005; -71.003177 |
| Campus | Suburban |
| Mascot | Granite |
| Website | quincycollege |
Quincy College (QC) is apubliccommunity college inQuincy, Massachusetts.[2] It is anopen admission school that offersassociate degrees,bachelor degrees, and certificate programs. It was founded in 1958 and enrolls approximately 3,500 students at campuses inQuincy andPlymouth, Massachusetts.
During the mid-1950s, demand for higher education on the South Shore, and Quincy in particular, led to the creation of the Citizen's Committee appointed to study the feasibility of establishing a community college. This committee recommended that a community college should exist and as early as 1956, the first college-level courses were offered.
The school's first classes were offered at the Coddington Elementary School in 1956 asCollege Courses, Inc.,[3] after a committee was created to establish a newcommunity college andTimothy L. Smith, historian and professor at theEastern Nazarene College (ENC), was named its first director. It was sponsored by theQuincy School Department and used faculty from Eastern Nazarene.[4] Another ENC history professor,Charles W. Akers, became its firstfull-time director and transformed it into a junior college in 1958,[5] naming itQuincy Junior College (QJC) when it was first given power to grantassociate's degrees in the Commonwealth ofMassachusetts.[4]
In May 1958, College Courses, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization, was formed to help further higher education on the South Shore. In the fall of that same year, the first freshman class began at what would later be known as Quincy College.
Less than five years later, Quincy College was empowered to award the Associate in Arts and the Associate in Science degrees. Quincy College isaccredited by theNew England Commission of Higher Education.[6]
Quincy College is one of the last municipally owned colleges in the USA.[7] In 1991, the school founded the Plymouth campus located thirty minutes south of Quincy in downtownPlymouth, Massachusetts.
In January 2022, Quincy College began offering bachelor of science degrees in Business Management, Psychology, and Computer Science. Quincy College is the only traditional two-year Massachusetts college to offer a four-year degree.[8]
On May 9, 2018, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing withdrew its approval of the college'snursing program. The percentage of Quincy college graduates who passedlicensure exams on their first try in 2017 was just 54%; this was down from 59% in 2016 and 72% in 2015.[9] Shortly afterward, Quincy College President Peter Tsaffaras offered his resignation and said he had lost the confidence of the college's board of governors.
Less than one year after withdrawing its approval, the Board of Registration in Nursing voted to allow reopening of a refreshed and updated nursing program on the Quincy and Plymouth Campuses thanks to the rehabilitative efforts efforts of PresidentMichael G. Bellotti and Provost Gerry Koocher.[10] Since reopening, the percentage of students passing their first attempt at licensure exams increased to 91% in 2023.[11]
| 1. | Kenneth P. White | 1961–1971 |
| 2. | Edward F. Pierce | 1972–1982 |
| 3. | O. Clayton Johnson | 1983–1993 |
| 4. | G. Jeremiah Ryan | 1996–1999 |
| 5. | Sean L. Barry | 2000–2005 |
| 6. | Martha Sue Harris | 2005–2010 |
| 7. | Peter Tsaffaras | 2011–2018 |
| 8. | Michael G. Bellotti | 2018-2019 |
| 9. | Daniel M. Asquino | 2019-2020 |
| 10. | Richard DeCristofaro | 2020-Present |
The college offers 3bachelor's degrees, 35associate degrees and 21 certificate programs of completion in a variety of subjects.[12] It is accredited by theNew England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE).[13] The school is anopen enrollment institution,[14] meaning that it accepts all students with a high school diploma or equivalent tomatriculate, regardless of academic abilities, without selectivity. As of 2024, there were 4,863 students enrolled.[15]
The main campus is in Quincy Center located at 1250 Hancock St, President's Place, Quincy Massachusetts. Saville Hall which is also part of Quincy College is located 24 Saville Ave. Quincy Massachusetts. There is also another satellite campus in Plymouth, located at 36 Cordage Park Circle, Plymouth Massachusetts.[16][17][18] The school does not haveresidential facilities, as it is acommuter school.
Quincy College operates under the auspices of the City of Quincy. The college is unusual in this respect, as it is the only one of Massachusetts' 16 community colleges to be run by acity, rather than theCommonwealth of Massachusetts.[19] It is one of only two colleges in the United States organized this way.[20] Until the 1990s, it was run by the Quincy School Committee, but now has its own governing board.[20]
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