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Boston Globe: Enrollment is plummeting. Can the state’s regional public colleges compete?
April 5, 2024 – 7:36 pm
Although the state’s high school graduation rates have increased in recent years, a smaller share of students are going on to college, in part because of rising costs.
Rumbo News: NECC Becomes First U.S. Educational Partner of The Institute of Dominicans Living Abroad
April 5, 2024 – 7:13 pm
The Institute of Dominicans Living Abroad (INDEX) and Northern Essex Community College (NECC) are proud to announce the signing of a collaboration agreement.
Boston Herald: Whittier Tech may move into novel ‘shared campus model’ with local community college after failed building proposal
April 5, 2024 – 7:11 pm
After a failed vote to give Whittier Tech a new building, the Healey administration is proposing a brand new solution to give the school the space and resources it needs — potentially moving it in with the local community college…
Salem News: Whittier Tech exploring shared campus
April 5, 2024 – 7:09 pm
Governor Maura Healey said her administration is looking into possibly merging Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School and Northern Essex Community College on NECC's campus in Haverhill.
WBZ: High school and community college could combine campuses in Massachusetts
April 5, 2024 – 7:07 pm
 A high school and a community college could eventually combine campuses in northeastern Massachusetts.
Daily News: Newburyport Bank celebrates ‘Promise’ of early education
March 26, 2024 – 3:33 pm
Bankers, educators and students gathered Tuesday to celebrate the beginning of something they believe will make higher education a lot more affordable for area students.
AACC: Extending the promise
March 26, 2024 – 3:32 pm
Northern Essex Community College (NECC) is scaling up its Promise programs. The Massachusetts college, with the support of Newburyport Bank, has created the new Seacoast Promise Program.
Community College Daily: Funding Round-up
March 26, 2024 – 3:31 pm
Seven Massachusetts community colleges received state grants to purchase automatic external defibrillators (AED) for emergency response vehicles. 
Eagle-Tribune: Gen Z on ‘Oppenheimer’: Northern Essex students consider philosophical implications of film
March 11, 2024 – 3:15 pm
Northern Essex Community College professor Meredith Gunning asks her Philosophy through Film students a parting question on this day in late February: Do you fear weapons of mass destruction?
CC Daily: Community colleges are not Harvard — and that’s a good thing
March 6, 2024 – 3:18 pm
If you want to understand what campus life is really like at America’s colleges today, visit your local community college, not Harvard.

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