Queensborough Community College

Queensborough Community College, a school of The City University of New York, is situated on a lavish 37-section of land grounds in Bayside, Queens, New York. The College was set up in 1959 on the previous site of the notable Oakland Golf Club and offers a rich aesthetic sciences and science educational programs and also vocation and pre-proficient courses. The College's exchange projects are intended for understudies who plan to proceed with their learns at a four-year establishment. Profession programs give the scholastic establishment and preparing for understudies who plan to start or progress in an awesome vocation. Queensborough offers the Associate in Arts (A.A.), the Associate in Science (A.S.) and the Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees, and additionally non-credit Continuing Education programs. More than 16,000 credit and another 10,000 Continuing Education understudies are enlisted at Queensborough. More than 70 percent exchange to senior schools or colleges, and others get the fundamental abilities for professional success. 

The College's understudy body mirrors the differences of Queens, the most different district in New York City. Understudies start from roughly 140 nations and more than a third talk a dialect other than English at home. The ethnicity of the understudy body is equitably part among minorities. 

The Association of American Colleges and Universities has perceived Queensborough Community College as a national pioneer in building up an establishment wide, understudy focused learning environment through its Freshman Academies. The Freshman Academies were dispatched in fall 2009 to enhance graduation and degrees of consistency and have earned national awards. All first-time, full-time understudies select in one of the five Freshman Academies: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM); Liberal Arts; Visual and Performing Arts; Health Related Sciences; and Business. Every Academy incorporates high effect learning systems that have been recognized through examination concentrates, for example, learning groups; composing escalated guideline; community oriented tasks and assignments; scholarly administration learning; undergrad research; basic scholarly encounters; and differences/worldwide learning. Queensborough understudies rapidly find that they are a piece of a group of educators and associates who put stock in cultivating a society of scholarly fabulousness while being sustained as a person in a steady climate. 

Queensborough has roughly 400 full-time personnel. Almost 60 percent hold their doctoral degrees and are urged to attempt research in junior college instructional method, and also the customary control based exploration, to manufacture a "learning society" for themselves and their understudies. Personnel are urged to utilize their classrooms to explore different avenues regarding new ways to deal with enhancing learning inside of their scholarly trains, and are helped by an in-house asset for staff called the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning that spotlights on examination and productions on powerful junior college instructional method. 

The College is likewise committed to giving social and creative chances to understudies and the group through the Queensborough Performing Arts Center (QPAC), QCC Art Gallery and the Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives. All are incorporated into the educational modules and are utilized as learning labs for Queensborough understudies. 

Queensborough Community College is licensed by the Commission of Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The Business projects are licensed by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs. The Nursing programis enlisted by the New York State Education Department and certify by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing, Inc. (ACEN). The Computer Engineering so as to engineer Technology projects are licensed Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET. 

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CUNY supports individuals with inabilities, minorities, veterans and ladies to apply. At CUNY, Italian Americans are additionally included among our secured gatherings. Candidates and representatives won't be victimized on the premise of any legitimately secured class, including sexual introduction or sex personality. The City University of New York/QCC is an EEO/IRCA/ADA boss. 

Welcome from the President 

Welcome to Queensborough Community College—focused on giving understudies a quality, moderate training in a steady domain. For over fifty years, Queensborough has served understudies from Queens and the whole New York City area as a beginning spot to seek after their scholarly and profession objectives. 

Queensborough gladly mirrors the uniqueness of the neighborhood Queens group—the most various region in the United States. We separate ourselves from other advanced education organizations in America with our differences of societies, including almost parallel populaces of African Americans, Asians, Caucasians and Latinos. Truth be told, near portion of our understudies were conceived in another nation, and 38% talk a dialect other than English at home. 

Our late surge in enlistment conveys the understudy populace to more than 16,000 with understudies selected in Associate degree or testament programs and another 10,000 understudies going to proceeding with instruction programs on our grounds. Certify by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, Queensborough Community College offers exchange and vocation degree programs through seventeen scholastic divisions bringing about the Associate in Arts (A.A.), the Associate in Science (A.S.), and the Associate in Applied Science (A.A.S.) degrees. The College likewise offers non-credit courses, declaration projects, and access to the visual and performing expressions. 

The main two reasons understudies go to Queensborough are to exchange to a four-year school or college—over portion of our understudies exchange to a four-year CUNY school in the wake of winning their Associate degree—and to acquire the fundamental abilities for professional success. 

A key objective for the College is to give a scholastic situation that fortifies understudies' dedication and makes it feasible for them to graduate or finish their objectives in a convenient way. 

In 2009, Queensborough propelled the Freshman Academies, offering each first-time, full-time understudy customized scholastic and understudy support through their initial two semesters, catapulting them into an effective scholarly undergrad experience. While different universities have actualized comparative projects, Queensborough was the main junior college to offer the activity establishment wide, enveloping the majority of its projects of study. 

Expanding on the project's positive results in maintenance and graduation rates, the Freshman Academies will be extended starting in the fall of 2013 as The Academies. The new activity will give each full-time understudy customized bolster administrations in light of scholarly hobbies and future objectives all through their scholastic vocation at Queensborough. Each of the five Academies—Business; Health Related Sciences; Liberal Arts; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM); and Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA)— will give unique learning opportunities and exercises, alongside customized direction from Academic Advisers. 

An imperative part of The Academies are high effect learning encounters, for example, administration learning, composing serious courses, temporary jobs, and instructive open doors at the College's three social asset focuses, The Kupferberg Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, the QCC Art Gallery, and the Performing Arts Center. These improved learning encounters serve to fortify classroom instructing and develop understudies' dedication to their training. 

Another sign of the College is exploration. Our personnel—62% hold doctorates—are effectively occupied with junior college pedagogical examination to concentrate on and enhance the instructing procedures to advantage our understudies. They likewise direct research in their scholarly trains, distribute their discoveries, and contend universally in scholastic gatherings. The staff is similarly committed to the accomplishment of their understudies and urges them to seek after their own particular scholarly advancement. 

As an entering understudy, you are urged to consider your future past Queensborough—be it to procure your baccalaureate degree, or to progress to an expert profession. Our steady personnel and regulatory staff will help you to be effective in achieving your instructive, social and expert objectives. I wish you a remunerating background while you are with us at Queensborough Community College, and the accomplishment of your objectives and dreams in the years ahead. 

More than 16,000 understudies are enlisted in Associate degree or testament programs and another 10,000 understudies go to proceeding with training programs at Queensborough Community College. 

Queensborough gets ready understudies for an energizing new vocation or for exchange to a four-year program. Truth be told, more than half of Queensborough understudies exchange to a four-year CUNY establishment in the wake of procuring their Associate degrees. 

Queensborough offers a wide assortment of assets where understudies might advance their scholastic experience and associate with their kindred understudies: clubs, exercises, sports, administration learning, understudy government, veterans administrations, and substantially more. 

- Incidents/Safety worries on-grounds contact the QCC Office of Public Safety, by grabbing one of the red telephones on grounds, or calling (718) 631-6320. You can likewise finish a report in individual by going to their office situated in the Library Bldg. third Floor (close to the banner post). 

- Incidents/Safety worries off-grounds ought to be coordinated to your nearby law implementation, NYPD, or if there should be an occurrence of crisis dial 911. 

- Once a report is gotten by the Office of Student Affairs-Office of Student Conduct, an examination will start into the matter of concern.