Cape Cod Community College, known locally as "4-C's" or "The Harvard of the Middle Cape", is a two-year community college located in West Barnstable, Massachusetts. Cape Cod Community College was established in 1961, the second institution to open as part of what is now a 15 community college system in Massachusetts. It awards Associate in Arts and Associate in Science degrees and various academic certificates in a wide variety of programs. The college offers access to on-campus Bachelor's and Master's Degree programs in partnership with: Bridgewater State College, Boston University, Lesley University, Salem State College, Suffolk University, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth, and Wheelock College. For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a county college, junior college or a city college, is an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and Associates degrees. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... West Barnstable is a village in the city of Barnstable, Massachusetts. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... In Canada and the United States, a community college, sometimes called a county college, junior college or a city college, is an educational institution providing higher education and lower-level tertiary education, granting certificates, diplomas, and Associates degrees. ... West Barnstable is a village in the city of Barnstable, Massachusetts. ... An associates degree is a degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges and some bachelors degree-granting colleges and universities in Canada and the United States upon completion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. ... An associates degree is a degree awarded by community colleges, junior colleges and some bachelors degree-granting colleges and universities in Canada and the United States upon completion of a course of study equivalent to the first two years in a four-year college or university. ... Bridgewater State College is a public liberal arts college located in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. ... For the similarly named institution in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Lesley University is a private university with campuses at Boston and Cambridge, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. ... Salem State College is a four-year public institution of higher learning located in the city of Salem, Massachusetts. ... Suffolk University is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, situated on Beacon Hill. ... University of Massachusetts Boston, or UMass Boston is a university in Boston, Massachusetts in the northeastern United States. ... The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth is a multi-college university, part of the state wide university system of the University of Massachusetts, located in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. ... Wheelock College is an institution of higher learning located in Boston, Massachusetts. ...

The college recently opened the Lyndon P. Lorusso Applied Technology Building, a state-of-the-art GOLD LEED certified facility completed in Summer 2006. It was been built in keeping with the College's commitment to environmental sustainability, and is the state's first LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified "green-building" ever built with state dollars.

Notable

Alumni

• Dana Mohler-Faria, President, Bridgewater State College

• Christopher Rodriguez, Associate Director of the National Hurricane Center, Chief Naming Officer, Privileged to name Hurricanes and Tropical storms for the last 7 years.