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About Cambridge College

Cambridge College offers a unique environment where working adults can continue their education by building on a lifetime of learning. Cambridge College recognizes diversity as an asset to the classroom, the community, and to our society. Our innovative teaching and learning model helps adult students meet the challenges of higher education and earn the degree credentials they need to advance their careers.

Accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges through its Commission on Institutions of Higher Learning, Cambridge College offers bachelor's, master's, and post-master's programs for educators, counselors, managers, and human service providers.

Other compelling benefits for adult learners at Cambridge College are:

- Fall, Spring, and Summer Terms

- Convenient evening/weekend classes

- A curriculum design that balances theory and practice

- Collaborative learning emphasizing teamwork among faculty and students

- Student/faculty ratio of 16:1

The College's campus consists of two buildings in Cambridge, MA, in the vicinity of Harvard and Central Squares (1000 Massachusetts Avenue and 80 Prospect Street), with regional centers in Springfield and Lawrence, MA, Chesapeake, VA, Augusta, GA, Laguna Hills, CA, and San Juan, PR. We also have satellite programs and distance learning opportunities.

Mission, Values and History

To provide academically excellent, time-efficient, and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.

Values

Cambridge College is a responsive learning community, where working adults can find ways to make the personal and professional changes they need to achieve their goals. Learning at Cambridge College takes place in an atmosphere of true diversity, where students support each other in a collaborative learning process that respects their needs and values, their prior learning and life experiences. The College's innovative adult-centered learning model links theory and practice, helping students to acquire the academic credentials they seek, enrich their lives and careers, and become leaders in their communities.

History

In 1971, a small group of educators dreamed about a college that would serve working adults who did not have ready access to higher education. Out of this dream Cambridge College was born, first as the Institute of Open Education at Newton College of the Sacred Heart, then as part of the Antioch University Network, and finally in 1981 as an independent institution.

At first, one course of study was offered: a Masters degree program for teachers, with a focus on urban schools. The mission and philosophy of the College drew attention quickly. Students from businesses, non-profit and social service agencies, and other professions became part of this adult learning community. Thanks to the commitment of its faculty, the generosity of its friends, and the achievements of its graduates, the College now offers a broad range of academic programs that strategically serve urban communities.

Teaching and Learning at Cambridge College

Cambridge College is a learning community where working adults build their education on a lifetime of learning. Our learning and teaching practices are based on our extensive experience serving adult students.

The College believes that each person can learn, notwithstanding one's age, life history, current circumstances, or past academic experience. Therefore, entrance requirements are not a barrier. The College works with students to build the skills needed for academic and career success, providing experiences of genuine learning that make new learning possible. Students are expected to meet high academic standards by the end of the program.

Each person has a unique way of learning and thinking, so faculty find out how their students learn and construct learning activities for each class that make best use of their students' learning styles.

Each student's uniqueness, capabilities, and experiences are affirmed in a supportive classroom. Students are expected to share with the class - to learn and to teach. The real-world diversity of our classes provides rich opportunities to draw academic learning from experience. This learning is "unfinished," student-centered, and socially constructed in class. It links individual students with one another and the socio-cultural world.

The learning community and process are as important as content. Students and faculty learn together and assist one another in a collaborative learning community. A class reflects on their previous experiences related to the course, and academic perspectives bring understanding and stimulate further learning. This enables students to transcend inequities, previous failures, limitations, and the past itself.

Theory and practice are an interactive process in classroom discussions, blending academic theory, research, and current information with personal values, experience, and professional practice. Each student individualizes the classroom learning, and gains further learning from putting theory into practice at work the next day.

Our students gain the content knowledge and skills to meet professional standards in their field. Many of our faculty members are experienced professionals in their fields, providing both academic and professional perspectives.

Our students are individual adults, family members, working professionals, and community members. Their many perspectives provide rich material for classroom discussion. Our programs support working adults' efforts to advance in their careers, change directions, and improve their lives and their communities. Students report that our programs and course work are more applicable in their work environments and of greater value to their professional growth than more traditional degrees.

Time-efficient, flexible programs, course schedules, and credit awards fit into busy adults' work schedules; intensive courses can be completed in a short time. Students' life and professional experiences are used to accelerate classroom learning. Credit may be awarded for documented academic learning drawn from experience (no life experience credit awarded). Academic programs can often be tailored for individual needs. Liberal transfer credit policies recognize adults' past academic accomplishments.

Lifelong learning and leadership. Our students become their own teachers, able to learn not only in school, but also in their careers and communities. They become more effective team members and leaders, making meaningful, practical contributions to families, workplaces, and communities. Networks often form among students, enhancing their lives and careers for years.

Program Goals and Outcomes Cambridge College is a learning community in which adult learners experience educational practices that honor and empower them. Cambridge College develops and enhances skills, competencies, attitudes, values and habits of mind which enable the learners to competently meet personal needs and professional challenges. Our academic programs stir and excite the emotions, curiosity, and intellect to render them life-long learners. Learners will:

- Discover their strengths and unique ways of learning and thinking

- Gain the skills, knowledge, and perspectives to make sense out of experience and the larger world as an individual, professional, and community member; and build on this understanding to become a lifelong learner

- Be affirmed as individuals and professionals

- Work effectively with people from diverse backgrounds and with diverse needs, effectively helping them realize their potential

- Acquire content and skills in their area of study, and meet professional standards in the field

- Have an ongoing network of relationships with fellow learners and faculty

Cambridge College, therefore, aspires to be a visionary organization and learning community. Many of our students report that the dynamic learning process at Cambridge College has transformed their professional and personal lives.

Cambridge College Academic Programs

The Cambridge College benefits for adult learners include:

Curriculum designed for adult professionals Convenient evening and weekend classes Stimulating, interactive classes Peer-to-peer learning Highly supportive environment Rich diversity of faculty Focus on providing quality education to students Professors with many years of experience working in their respective fields. Accreditation through the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

Program Goals

Cambridge College's programs are developed to:

- Facilitate learning, by immersing students in a learning community in which they experience pedagogical models that honor and empower learners.

- Promote the development and/or enhancement of skills, competencies, attitudes, values, and habits of mind which enable the learners as teachers and family and community leaders, to competently meet the plethora of personal and professional needs and challenges of nurturing learning in schools, families, and communities.

- Stir and excite the emotions, curiosity, and intellect in a manner that will render our students life-long learners.

Program Outcomes

- Each person will realize his/her potential as a person, as a learner, as a teacher, as a therapist, as a community member, and as a trainer.

- Each person will discover his/her preferred mode of learning, style, strengths, and potential.

- Each person will make sense out of his/her previous experiences, and will build on them to move further. Students will have acquired skills, knowledge, and attitudes to make better sense of their world as individuals, as teachers, as community members, and ultimately become lifelong learners.

- Each person will acquire skills in content relating to teaching and learning, and also will be affirmed as an individual and as a professional.

- Each person will effectively function as a teacher of children or adults from diverse backgrounds and with diverse needs.

- Each person will create learning environments in which he or she helps students, members of the community (family), and colleagues and in turn, realize and exhibit their potentials.

- Each student will have a network of relationships not only with fellow learners, but with Cambridge College faculty and the faculty in their own schools.

Cambridge College, therefore, aspires to be a visionary organization and a learning community. The College has its vision and mission (as reflected in these assumptions and philosophy), but more importantly, it is also the place where individual visions and missions are shaped and realized. Most of our students report that their experiences at Cambridge College have been transformational's both personally and professionally. Individuals (both the faculty and students) were transformed as a result of experiences provided by this unique learning process.

Cambridge College's Centers

Cambridge, MA campus Cambridge College's campus is in the heart of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The School of Education is located in Central Square at 80 Prospect Street. The College's main building is a 10-minute walk down Massachusetts Avenue toward Harvard Square. Both are modern, handicapped-accessible buildings. Our students enjoy many convenient eating places, bookstores, museums and cultural events within a few blocks of campus.

As a commuter college for adults, no dormitories or cafeterias are provided. Students in our local programs and at our regional centers live and work within commuting distance and are responsible for their own living arrangements. Because our adult students are involved in community organizations, their families and jobs, no student activities are provided. Students in distance learning programs are responsible for their own transportation and lodging when they come to campus.

Satellite sites - Classes are offered at many other locations across eastern Massachusetts. However, students must come to Cambridge or a regional center to complete at least half of their program. Newton-Wellesley Hospital is an authorized instructional site, so students may complete an entire degree program there. However, no Cambridge College offices or services are located at the Hospital. Students are expected to visit College offices and services in near-by Cambridge.

National Institute for Teaching Excellence - Our NITE Summer Institute uses dormitories, cafeterias, and educational facilities at a college in greater Boston. Students continue their programs online, in their own school systems, and at regional centers.

Regional Centers - Our students and alumni across the nation have urged Cambridge College to bring its academic programs and culture of adult learning to the working people of their own cities and states. Regional centers ("instructional sites") have been established in: Springfield and Lawrence, MA, Chesapeake, VA, Augusta, GA, Laguna Hills, CA, and San Juan, PR.

Adult Learning - Faculty from Cambridge teach courses at our regional centers and train local faculty in the adult teaching/learning tradition of Cambridge College.

Support and Communication with Cambridge - Licensure programs are supervised by the coordinators from Cambridge, taking into consideration the needs of local students and state requirements. Academic coordinators at each center provide academic advising and guidance for students. On-site administrative and enrollment services are limited. An extensive technology collaboration program enables students to communicate with Admissions, the Bursar, and the Registrar in Cambridge. Students register, view their records, and stay in touch with faculty, program coordinators, and deans online. Web conferencing between the regional centers and Cambridge maintains our close affiliation and insures consistency. We have state-of-the-art distance learning that students access from their laptops.