Company Profile
Company Overview
MCC is a vibrant, collaborative environment, the ideal place to develop your higher education career. A college of the State University of New York, MCC is an innovative, responsive institution recognized globally as a leader among community colleges. As a member of the League for Innovation in the Community College, MCC is one of a few colleges that serve on the organization’s board of directors, providing leadership to broad-based initiatives.
Our college community includes more than 1,500 faculty and staff. New faculty members receive mentoring from senior faculty. Colleagues collaborate within and across organizational divisions, resulting in high-quality instruction and award-winning programs that support our key mission—student success. We value personalized attention for students, excellence in teaching and an innovative curriculum to promote student success.
MCC has built a culture that sustains innovation and attracts accomplished and dedicated professionals. Our high expectations for student achievement and quality teaching encourage creativity and engagement. In part because of our progressive and collaborative culture, our faculty and professional staff have received 85 SUNY Chancellor’s Awards, recognizing excellence in teaching, professional service, librarianship, classified service, scholarship and creative activities. Members of the MCC community are often called upon to share their successes with colleagues at conferences, workshops and meetings across the country.
Community colleges have become the gateway to higher education for much of the nation. Nearly half of the college students in the U.S. attend community colleges. At MCC, more than 35,000 students each year take classes at six locations across the region and in the online world. We open the door of access to a diverse population, from young adults to lifelong learners. With strong, deep ties to the community and a history of responding to changing needs, MCC plays a critical role in the economic development of the Greater Rochester area by preparing the local workforce through education, training and retraining.
The third-largest urban center in New York state, Rochester is a diverse community—in its people, landscape, weather and activities. Rochesterians celebrate their diversity with annual festivals highlighting rich cultural heritages. Rochester is a highly-educated community; fully one-third of its residents hold college degrees. Situated between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes, the area offers beautiful landscapes: a city accentuated by the Genesee River and High Falls, suburban towns and villages rich in community spirit, and rolling hills dotted with farms and wineries. There is something for every taste—fine dining, professional sports, live theatre, parks, museums and more. Just as significant is the welcoming aura of community spirit that makes this upstate spot a wonderful place to live and work.
Mission statement:
Monroe Community College is a dynamic learning community where access, excellence, and leadership are the College’s hallmarks. Our mission is to educate and prepare diverse learners to achieve scholarly, professional, and individual success within local and global contexts. The College serves as a catalyst for innovation, economic development, lifelong learning, and civic engagement.
Background:
Community leaders partnered with the State of New York and Monroe County to establish the college in 1961. The college opened in 1962 with 720 enrolled students. Today, the college serves more than 35,000 students annually at four primary locations and two extension sites throughout the community.
MCC Locations:
Brighton Campus
1000 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623
585.292.2200
Damon City Campus
228 E. Main St., Rochester, NY 14604
585.262.1600
Applied Technologies Center
2485 W. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623
585.292.3700
Economic and Workforce Development Center
1057 E. Henrietta Road, Rochester, NY 14623
585.292.3770
Public Safety Training Facility
1190 Scottsville Road, Rochester, NY 14624
585.753.3800
Accreditation:
MCC is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Curricula are registered and approved by the New York State Department of Education.
Monroe Community College is one of 17 community colleges chosen to be a member of the League for Innovation in the Community College Board of Directors. The League is a nonprofit educational consortium of resourceful community colleges organized to stimulate experimentation and innovation in all areas of community college development. Founded in 1968, the League serves as a catalyst, project incubator and experimental laboratory for its member community colleges.
Curriculum and Degrees:
MCC offers more than 90 degree and certificate programs from accounting and advertising to travel and tourism. Flexible course scheduling and locations help people design educational experiences that fit their lives and help them reach their goals. The majority of MCC students—about 70 percent—plan to transfer to a four-year college or university to earn a bachelor’s degree after their first two years of study at MCC.
Finances/Tuition:
Budget: $126,900,000
Full-time tuition: $1,708/semester in-state; $3,416 out-of-state*
*As of fall 2014
Student Profile:
Under 20 years old: 33 percent; 20-24: 32 percent; 25-29: 13 percent; 30-plus: 22 percent
Female: 54 percent; male: 46 percent
Minority: 35 percent
Student Life:
Clubs and organizations: more than 50
Residence halls: 772 bed capacity
NJCAA team national championships: 25
More information on Monroe Community College:
Visit www.monroecc.edu
Find us on:
Facebook: www.facebook.com/monroecc
Twitter: www.twitter.com/MonroeCC
Company History
Established in 1961 as a unit of the State University of New York, Monroe Community College was a vision shared by a handful of industrious and determined business people, community leaders and government officials.
The time was right for MCC. Nationwide, a scattering of community colleges had begun to take root. For people who had been shut out of higher education, a publicly-funded two-year institution in their own community offered exciting new opportunities for growth.
The establishment of the College was led by local physician Dr. Samuel J. Stabins, who recognized the need to prepare students to work in local hospitals and health care facilities, and the first Board of Trustees comprised Rochester’s finest professionals in medicine, business, education and law. Leading the way in 1961 was Dr. Alice Holloway Young, founding trustee, board chair and chair emerita.
During the early months of 1962, Dr. Leroy Good was hired by the board as MCC’s founding president. Good, who already had successfully established community colleges in three other states, would make his mark in Rochester as well.
The College’s first home in Rochester’s former East High School at 410 Alexander Street had been condemned by the city as a fire hazard. That did not deter MCC founders who immediately went to work making the necessary renovations. On Sept. 9, 1962, the doors of MCC’s original campus swung open and welcomed 720 students. Three years later, in June 1965, MCC became the first college in the nation to receive accreditation within three years of its founding.
In 1968, the College responded to increasing enrollment by moving to a new campus on East Henrietta Road in Brighton. Over the years, MCC became the fastest-growing community college in the state, increasing enrollment during the 1980s by more than 41 percent.
In 1991, the College announced plans for a second campus to serve a steady influx of students. The Damon City Campus, named in honor of longtime Trustee E. Kent Damon, opened its doors the following year in downtown Rochester, and educates students in law, criminal justice, human services and K-12 teaching.
To meet the needs of students to juggle college and family, the MCC Child Care Center (which has since been renamed the Richard M. Guon Child Care Center) opened in May of 1991. Certified by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the center cares for children who are eight weeks to 5 years old; during the summer, programs serve school-age children up to 11 years old.
In 1997, MCC opened the Applied Technologies Center, a 53,000-square-foot, $6.4-million facility on West Henrietta Road, serving some of the fastest-growing industries in the nation. About 1,000 full-time and part-time students, many of whom are employed in local industry, learn the latest methods in optical fabrication, precision machining, automotive technology, and heating, ventilation and air conditioning/refrigeration.
In 2002, MCC began comprehensively training the region’s first responders in a new 49,000-square-foot, $26 million regional emergency responder training complex. The Public Safety Training Facility on Scottsville Road, across from the airport, was created through a collaboration of regional emergency response organizations and Monroe County.
In 2003, MCC’s Housing and Residence Life program was launched with the dedication of the Alice Holloway Young Commons, named in honor of Dr. Young. In Fall 2007, Canal Hall was added to the commons, which is located on the north side of the Brighton Campus.
In December 2003, responding to the tragedy of Sept. 11th, the College launched its Homeland Security Training Institute to address the educational needs of those across the region faced with responding to natural and intentional disasters.
Three years later, the College answered the county’s call to provide education, training and resource development in the agriculture industry. MCC’s Agriculture and Life Sciences Institute was launched in January of 2007.
Through the years, MCC has continually grown in degree programs, educational initiatives and facilities to meet the community’s diverse needs. The College offers classes in extension sites at area high schools, serves seventh- through 12th-graders in precollegiate programs, and incorporates community activism – service-learning – into its courses. Embedded in its history, MCC embraces diversity and inclusion, offering activities and programs to enhance the personal and professional development of faculty, staff and students. MCC’s commitment to sustainability and drive for innovation are reflected in the award-winning design and construction of the Louis S. and Molly B. Wolk Center for Excellence in Nursing and the PAC Center.
As rooted in its history, MCC will continue to respond to the changing requirements of the local community. Today, the College has served more than a quarter of a million people. Within the next several years, MCC will welcome a new downtown campus in the city of Rochester to meet evolving educational needs of people throughout our region.