Observer Department: Campus Life


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…


The academic centers in Northern Essex Community College have been coming up with different ways on how to keep the student body engaged with theschool virtually. The Center for Liberal Arts particularly has hosted many zoom events for students to participate in if they chose to. Events the center hosts…


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…


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,…


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…


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…


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…


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…


Connecting with the community during the holidays

Northern Essex Community College hosted a holiday themed movied night in December.  The community was encouraged to participate in the showing of the movie, The Holiday, being shown via Zoom. Any and all students and faculty members are welcome to join with a super simple signup through link. The organizer…


Journalism program coordinator hosts conversation about the craft

On Dec. 10, 2020,  the new coordinator of the journalism and communciations program at Northern Essex Community College, Kim Lyng hosted a journalism and communications ‘conversation’ for all students and staff members to attend if they pleased. Lyng began the presentation by talking about her introduction to writing as a…