Mexico City College

Diploma from Mexico City College, 1948 (in Latin)

Mexico City College was founded in 1940, as an English speaking junior college in Mexico City, Mexico.

In 1946 the college switched to a 4 year Bachelor of Arts degree-awarding institution, then changed its name to University of the Americas in 1963 and in 1968 to Universidad de las Americas, beginning a transition to be a Spanish-speaking institution, culminating with its move to Cholula, Puebla, in 1971.

Because of internecine problems the campus then split into two separate institutions:

• UDLA - Universidad de las Americas, in Mexico City, Mexico.
• UDLAP- University of the Americas - Puebla, in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico.

Unfortunately the UDLAP websites about MCC exalumnos are usually offline, UDLA does not have an alumni website, but a Yahoo! group has a handful of former MCCers who frequently chat about MCC and are managing to keep its history alive.

References

See the article by Richard Wilkie "Dangerous Journeys: Mexico City College Students and the Mexican Landscape, 1954-1962" in *[1]

• The Mexico City College Story:The History 1940-1963
• Yahoo! group of Mexico City College alumni
• Yahoo! group of MCC/UDLAP students & alumni
• University of the Americas - Puebla
• University of the Americas - Mexico City