{"id":1261,"date":"2023-05-23T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T09:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2024-03-11T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T19:03:51","slug":"nearly-1500-mcc-students-to-earn-degrees-and-certificates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/23\/nearly-1500-mcc-students-to-earn-degrees-and-certificates\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 1,500 MCC Students to Earn Degrees and Certificates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WHAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Monroe Community College will confer associate degrees and certificates in career and transfer programs to its class of 2023 at its 60<sup>th<\/sup> annual Commencement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial in Rochester<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>7 p.m. Thursday, May 25<\/p>\n<p><strong>DETAILS:<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Message to the Graduates will be delivered by keynote speaker Adrian Hale \u201914, a Greater Rochester civic leader, New York State Board of Regents member and MCC alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>The MCC Class of 2023 comprises 1,421 graduates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The majority of MCC graduates (approximately 60 percent) plan to transfer to four-year colleges and universities and continue their education.<\/li>\n<li>Approximately 81 percent of graduates who continue their education do so at a SUNY\/CUNY institution.<\/li>\n<li>Of career and certificate program graduates who are employed full time, approximately 90 percent work in Monroe or an adjacent county.<\/li>\n<li>Top majors based on degrees to be conferred include liberal arts and sciences, business administration, nursing, psychology, and health studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monroe Community College will confer associate degrees and certificates in career and transfer programs to its class of 2023 at its 60th annual Commencement starting at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 25, at Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial in Rochester. MCC&#8217;s class of 2023 comprises 1,421 graduates. The Message to the Graduates will be delivered by keynote speaker Adrian Hale \u201914, a Greater Rochester civic leader, New York State Board of Regents member and MCC alumnus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,36,7],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","tag-mcc2023","tag-commencement","tag-workforce-development"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1264,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.monroecc.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}