Cape Cod Community College

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Cape Cod Community College

Motto: Light, Liberty, and Learning
Established: 1961
Type: Community
President: Dr. Kathleen Schatzberg
Students: 6,400+ annually
Location: West Barnstable, Mass., USA
Campus: Centrally located on Cape Cod in a primarily rural environment
Nickname: "4-C's" or "The Harvard of the Middle Cape"
Website: www.capecod.edu

Cape Cod Community College, known locally as "4-C's" or "The Harvard of the Middle Cape", is a two-year community college located in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Community College was established in 1961, the second institution to open as part of what is now a 15 community college system in Massachusetts. It awards Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees and various academic certificates in a wide variety of programs. The college offers access to on-campus Bachelor's and Master's Degree programs in partnership with: Bridgewater State College, Boston University, Lesley University, Salem State College, Suffolk University, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and Wheelock College.

The college recently opened the Lyndon P. Lorusso Applied Technology Building, a state-of-the-art GOLD LEED certified facility completed in Summer 2006. It was built in keeping with the College's commitment to environmental sustainability, and is the state's first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified "green-building" ever built with state dollars.

[edit] Notable Alumni

  • Christopher Rodriguez, Associate Director of the National Hurricane Center, Chief Naming Officer for Hurricanes and Tropical storms for the last 7 years.
  • Clifton Croce, founder and lead singer of Cape Cod punk band The Freeze (1979 to present)