Mexico City College
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Mexico City College was founded in 1940, as an English speaking junior college in Mexico City, Mexico.
In 1946 the college switched to a 4 year Bachelor of Arts degree-awarding institution, then changed its name to University of the Americas in 1963 and in 1968 to Universidad de las Americas, beginning a transition to be a Spanish-speaking institution, culminating with its move to Cholula, Puebla, in 1971.
Because of internecine problems the campus then split into two separate institutions:
- UDLA - Universidad de las Americas, in Mexico City, Mexico.
- UDLAP- University of the Americas - Puebla, in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.
Unfortunately the UDLAP websites about MCC exalumnos are usually offline, UDLA does not have an alumni website, but a Yahoo! group has a handful of former MCCers who frequently chat about MCC and are managing to keep its history alive.
PERSPECTIVE OF AN ALUMNUS:
Alpha:
Mexico City College, a truly unique institution of post-secondary education, was founded in 1940. Located in and later on the outskirts of Mexico City, it was accredited in the United States. Students from all parts of the U.S. and around the globe attended it, along with a growing local student body. It would be re-named as the University of the Americas, then the Universidad de las Americas, followed by its move to Puebla, and later divided into two distinct, separate institutions, one still in Puebla (Universidad de las Americas- Puebla, UDLAP) and one back in Mexico City (UDLA, A.C.).
Omega:
For many of its alumni, MCC was a turning point in their lives, a set of key experiences and fraternal connections that continue to be significant to this day. The college is gone, an economics investigational institution in its place on the now frantic Mexico- Toluca Highway, and Cuajimalpa, the rustic village that was a haven for the "beatnik and bohemian fringe," is now its own metropolis, as crowded as Mexico City. The spirit of MCC, though, lives on in the creative, irreverent and iconoclastic views of its alumni…some of which can be read and seen (in fotos) at related sites (References below) on the web.
--Jed Linde, MCC '60
