Men’s Basketball Team Ranked #5 in Preseason National Poll Haverhill, MA (October 25, 2024) – The Northern Essex Community College men's basketball team will start their season ranked number 5 in the National Junior College Athletic Association preseason poll. This is the 28th consecutive time the Knights have been…

CommonWealth Beacon: As minority enrollment slips at most colleges, Mass. offers way forward The Community College Advantage Scholarship awards the top 10% of graduates up to $10,000 to toward tuition at one of the UMass Campuses.

Lowell Sun, Opinion: UMass, NECC offer an affordable path to world-class education A new scholarship opportunity created after the Supreme Court's ruling on Affirmative Action

New Grant for Creation of Free Class Materials with a Focus on Career Readiness and AI Haverhill, MA (October 22, 2024) – Northern Essex Community College continues to be at the forefront of reducing barriers for students through developing free course materials and textbooks, known as Open Educational Resources (OER). Framingham State University is the lead…

UMass welcomes first community college graduates to receive $10,000 Community College Advantage Scholarship BOSTON – All four University of Massachusetts undergraduate campuses in Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth and Lowell this Fall welcomed 66 community college graduates who are the first to be awarded the UMass Community College Advantage Scholarship, a new two-year $10,000 scholarship…

A Great #WeekAtNECC The week of October 6 was anything but ordinary at Northern Essex Community College. And we have the pictures to prove it! We (the Marketing Communications Department) brought back our special photo project, asking faculty, staff, and students to submit…

NECC Students Awarded Selective State Educators’ Scholarships Haverhill, MA (October 15, 2024) ­ – Two students from Northern Essex Community College were among just four students from across the state honored at this year’s Massachusetts Educational Opportunity Association (MEOA) Scholarship Awards in Worcester, MA. [caption id="attachment_28549" align="aligncenter"…

WHAV: Northern Essex Community College Knights Soccer Rank Ninth in Poll The Northern Essex Community College men’s soccer team ranked ninth in the week six poll released Monday afternoon by the NJCAA.

Board of Trustees October 2024 Update Haverhill, MA (October 2, 2024) – The Northern Essex Community College Board of Trustees met on the Haverhill Campus on Wednesday, October 2. The meeting included updates on MassEducate, the exploration of a shared campus model for NECC and Whittier…

Healey-Driscoll Administration Celebrates Free Community College Programs Framingham, MA (October 2, 2024) — The Healey-Driscoll Administration, state legislators, local officials, and educators gathered this week to celebrate free…