Campus Life
How the Center for Liberal Arts embraces different cultures
Northern Essex Community College has a diverse group of students attending both the Lawrence and Haverhill campuses, especially in the Lawrence campus where 80 percent of the student population are bilingual and speak predominantly Spanish. This is why NECC and the Center for Liberal Arts have incorporated different activities and programs that cater to different … Conti... Read More
Virtual events help students stay connected
Northern Essex Community College has held numerous virtual events ever since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak last March. Planned events like this allow the NECC community to feel togetherness, even when classes are remote. Virtual events have been orchestrated for a little over a year now by the Coordinator of Student Activities, Stephanie Haskell. … Continue read... Read More
Spreading Alzheimer’s awareness in the community
The Alzheimer’s Association is partnering with NECC to spread awareness about Alzheimers. The association is inviting NECC, students and their families to participate in an event called, “Know The 10 Signs of Alzheimers.” The event will be held over a webinar and will be hosted both in Spanish and in English. The event for Spanish … Continue reading Spreading Alzheimer&#... Read More
Panel highlights careers in journalism/communication
The Center for Liberal Arts hosts Career Panel events from timeto time to connect students with professionals in the liberal arts community. The purpose of thisevent is to have the liberal arts students listen in on how these communication professionals were able to achieve their level of success starting off on the same path as … Continue reading Panel highlights career... Read More
Survey shows students coping with a year of isolation, loneliness
The pandemic has caused a mass amount of change in a small amount of time. Some people may refer to the pandemic as unprecedented. The group that the pandemic has had the largest effect on is students. Kids went from seeing their teacher and friends everyday face to face to seeing people from their computer … Continue reading Survey shows students coping with a year of i... Read More
Registration for summer, fall begins at NECC
Registration for the summer and fall semesters is now open at Northern Essex Community College. The school is offering many different options for classes. There will be in person classes, only for health and stem classes unless the pandemic improves as stated on NECC’s website. There will be online classes, online classes with required zoom … Continue reading Registratio... Read More
Reflecting on a year of COVID
In March of 2021 the anniversary of the first lockdown came about, and more specifically the first time since NECC shut down and changed the format to online learning. Students reflect on the past year. Nisaly Gonzalez, who lives in North Andover and is studying Liberal Arts in NECC says that many things have not … Continue reading Reflecting on a year of COVID → Read More
COG offers outlet to help community
Club members say NECC’s Community Outreach Group is a place for students of any background to make friends while working towards a common goal: helping their community. “Everyone is coming from a different situation [and] different perspective, but at the end of the day we find something that everyone can contribute to, and everyone gets … Continue reading COG offers out... Read More
Students connect through art club
On the cold night of February 10, students turned on their computers and met through the familiar Zoom to have the Art Club meeting. The club is still fairly new, it’s beginning dates back to November of the past fall semester. A portion of the meeting consisted of what one would expect. The students introduced … Continue reading Students connect through art club → Read More
Center for Liberal Arts offers students academic help, events, advising and more
The Center for Liberal Arts is a social and academic home for all Northern Essex students who have a liberal arts related major so that they can have access to academic help, events, after school snacks, advising, and more. The idea of the Cente rcame about from the Business and Accounting center and at the … Continue reading Center for Liberal Arts offers students acade... Read More