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Quincy College (QC) is a public junior college located in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is an open admission commuter school that offers associate's degrees and certificate programs in professional fields of study. Founded in 1958, Quincy College is a two-year, municipally affiliated college serving approximately 4,000 students at campuses located in Quincy and Plymouth, Massachusetts. ==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 community college and Timothy L. Smith, historian and professor at the Eastern Nazarene College (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, Charles W. Akers, became its first full-time director and transformed it into a junior college in 1958,〔(Eastern Nazarene College: History Department )〕 naming it Quincy Junior College (QJC) when it was first given power to grant associate's degrees in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.〔 In May 1957, College Courses, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization, was officially formed to help further higher education on the South Shore. In the Fall of that same year, the first freshman class began at what will 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. It gained accreditation from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC) in 1980.〔(NEASC Detail: Quincy College )〕 Quincy College, one of the last municipally owned colleges in the USA.〔Ronan, Patrick, ("City-owned Quincy College seeks greater autonomy" ), ''The Patriot Ledger'', Nov 13, 2013〕 In 1991, the school founded the Plymouth campus located thirty minutes south of Quincy in downtown Plymouth, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Quincy College」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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