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Quincy College (QC) is a
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in
Quincy, Massachusetts Quincy ( ) is a coastal U.S. city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. It is the largest city in the county and a part of Greater Boston, Metropolitan Boston as one of Boston's immediate southern suburbs. Its population in 2020 was 1 ...
. It is an
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commuter school that offers
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s,
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s, and certificate programs. It was founded in 1958 and enrolls approximately 4,500 students at campuses in Quincy and
Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as ...
.


History

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 as College Courses, Inc.,"Quincy College: Nearly a Half Century of Ups and Downs," by Christopher Walker. ''The Patriot Ledger'', June 25, 2005, p. 10. after a committee was created to establish a new
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and Timothy L. Smith, historian and professor at the
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(ENC), was named its first director. It was sponsored by the Quincy School Department and used faculty from Eastern Nazarene."OUR OPINION: The golden years of Quincy College", ''The Patriot Ledger'', May 19, 2008
Another ENC history professor,
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, became its first
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director and transformed it into a junior college in 1958, naming it Quincy Junior College (QJC) when it was first given power to grant
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s in the Commonwealth of
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. In May 1957, 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 is
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by the
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. Quincy College is one of the last municipally owned colleges in the USA. In 1991, the school founded the Plymouth campus located thirty minutes south of Quincy in downtown
Plymouth, Massachusetts Plymouth (; historically known as Plimouth and Plimoth) is a town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. Located in Greater Boston, the town holds a place of great prominence in American history, folklore, and culture, and is known as ...
. In January 2022, the college began offering a bachelors degree in Business Management.


Nursing program shut down and resignation of President Peter Tsaffaras

On May 9, 2018, the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing withdrew its approval of the college's
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program. The percentage of Quincy college graduates who passed
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exams on their first try in 2017 was just 54%; this was down from 59% in 2016 and 72% in 2015. 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


Presidents


Campus

The main campus is in Quincy Center located at 1250 Hancock St, President's Place. Saville Hall which is also part of Quincy College is located 24 Saville Ave. There is also another satellite campus in Plymouth, MA. The school does not have residence halls, residential facilities, as it is a commuter school.


Organization

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 a
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, rather than the
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. It is one of only two colleges in the United States organized this way.Donald B. Gratz, "The road not taken: The evolution of a municipal junior college" (January 1, 1998). Boston College Dissertations and Theses. Paper AAI9828009.
/ref> Until the 1990s, it was run by the Quincy School Committee, but now has its own governing board.


Academics

The college confers 37
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and 25 certificates of completion in a wide variety of studies. Quincy College operates an articulation agreement with
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for four-year
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degrees and with
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for online learning. It is accredited by the
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(NEASC). The school is an open enrollment institution, meaning that it accepts all students with a high school diploma or equivalent to
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, regardless of academic abilities, without selectivity. As of 2010, there were 4,505 students enrolled.


Notable alumni

*
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, member of the
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since 1998. * William G. Gross,
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Commissioner.


References


External links


Official website
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