Center for Equity & Social Justice

Foster partnerships with the NECC community and our faculty and staff to help break down socioeconomic and racial barriers to educational success.

Leverage partnerships with community organizations in the Merrimack Valley:

Increase number of degree-holding residents in our communities.

CESJ want to be a resource hub and a connector to

Align with workforce, student, and community needs and in collaboration with Academic Affairs, REJI, and the ELL Taskforce

• Create more sustainable and cohesive non-credit to credit pathways
• Support the goals of the SUCCESS Program
• Engage and utilize system wide community college collaboration
• Support faculty in analyzing their class equity dashboards

CESJ will create new academic and institutional policies:

• Review, Revise, and Create with input from Academic Affairs and organizations throughout the college community such as REJI, HEIF, Success Program, and the ELL Taskforce

ESOL Expansion

• Significant expansion of ESOL offerings
  • SNAP ESOL WF Training Programs
  • Grant-funded and fee-based ESOL classes
  • More balanced offerings of ESOL on Haverhill campus

In Collaboration with Lawrence Campus and Community Relations

• Expand validating services (PIÉS LATINOS)
• Helps increase Degree Attainment

Build community and sense of belonging.

• Continuously assess the fulfillment of our mission through partnership with Institutional Effectiveness
• Study and utilize the sense of belonging survey as our starting point.
• Data analysis to continue to inform programming and future decisions
• Host Courageous Conversations and White Fund Enlightenment Speakers Series   

Initiate and support social justice initiatives throughout Haverhill and Lawrence.