Quincy College

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For the school in Illinois formerly known as Quincy College, see Quincy University.

Quincy College

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Established:	1958
Type:	Community college
President:	Martha Sue Harris
Students:	3,810
Location:	Quincy, MA, USA (42°15′10″N 71°00′00″W / 42.2527, -71.0001Coordinates: 42°15′10″N 71°00′00″W / 42.2527, -71.0001)
Campus:	Urban
Former names:	Quincy Junior College
Website:	www.quincycollege.edu

Quincy College is a community college located in downtown Quincy, Massachusetts, with a second campus located in Plymouth, Massachusetts. 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 city rather than by the state.^[1]

1 History
2 Presidents (1961-present)
3 Academics
4 Persons associated with Quincy College
5 Notes and references
6 External links

[edit] History

During the mid-1950s, a Citizen's Committee was created to establish a community college in Quincy. Dr. Timothy L. Smith, historian and then-professor at Eastern Nazarene College, was the first director of College Courses, Inc., which was sponsored by the Quincy School Department, and so Quincy's first community college courses were offered in 1956. Another ENC history professor, Dr. Charles W. Akers, transformed it into Quincy Junior College and served as its first full-time director.^[2] In 1961, it was given power to grant Associates degrees in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

In 1991, the school established a campus in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[3]

From 2003 to 2005, the college was struck by a series of controversial scandals in which then-President Sean Barry and adminstration officials were accused of financial mismanagement and use of scholarship funds for entertainment and travel expenses,^[4] leading to Barry's firing and an FBI investigation. Due to fabrication of documents suggesting that surgical technology students were receiving operating room experience they did not actually have, the program was suspended for two years, regaining its accreditation in 2007.^[5]

The college has also had a tumultuous relationship with the city^[6] over rent for its downtown buildings. Its main downtown building, Coddington Hall, is owned by the City of Quincy and was taken over in 2007 as temporary classroom space for Quincy High School during the construction of a new high school.^[7] This necessitated a move of many of the college's programs to a new location in North Quincy.^[8]

[edit] Presidents (1961-present)

Kenneth P. White (1961 - 1971)
Edward F. Pierce (1972 - 1982)
O. Clayton Johnson (1983 - 1993)
G. Jeremiah Ryan (1996 - 1999)
Sean L. Barry (2000 - 2005)
Martha Sue Harris (2005 - present)

[edit] Academics

Quincy College is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC),^[9] the oldest regional accrediting body in the United States. The college confers Associate degrees and certificates of completion in a wide variety of studies.^[10] Quincy College operates an articulation agreement with Cambridge College for four-year baccalaureate degrees and with Excelsior College for online learning.^[11]