Observer Department: News
Career Services at NECC
Northern Essex Community College offers students the opportunity to use the Career Services Department. The Career Services staff helps students with needs related to their educational goals and what they would like to do after they graduate from college. The Career Services Department helps students to find Internships that relate…
Presidential candidate visits NECC
Professor to release his fourth book
Rich Padova, history and government professor at Northern Essex will be releasing his fourth book next month which will be complimentary for anyone who would like a copy. Titled The First 100 Days: FDR to Biden, the book examines the first 100 days of presidential administrations beginning with Franklin Delano…
Food resources on campus
Northern Essex Community College students can find a quick pick-me-up just around any corner on campus. “The number of food pantries on U.S. college campuses has ballooned from 80 to around 800 in the past decade” says Stateline newspaper journalist Robbie Sequeira, and NECC is one of them -- with…
Course highlights presidential campaigns
A unique oopportunity strikes Northern Essex Community College once every four years. With the 2024 presidential election on the rise, this semester students were given the opportunity to embark on a quest for the presidency; a course that explores the process of running for president. This course was created by…
NECC Eclipse party
On April 8, Northern Essex Community College hosted an Eclipse Party for those who wanted to view the eclipse and spend time with friends and loved ones. The Career Services Staff at Northern Essex Community College also joined the Eclipse party, along with NECC staff and students. While I was…
PACE program changes students’ lives
A Northern Essex Community College student success service has been changing students’ lives for decades and does not plan to change that tradition any time soon. This impactful student success service is the TRIO Program, or to the dedicated members, they know it as the PACE Program. The program stands…
How professors ended up at NECC
At any institution around the world, whether it is a four-year university, communitycollege, high school, middle school, or elementary school, the bread-and-butter of these places are centered around the students, whose job is to learn, and the faculty, whose job is to instill knowledge that help their students succeed in…
Students honored
The PACE awards dinner was held on April 23. During this celebration, student members of PACE were recognized for their commitment and academic excellence. PACE which stands for Pathways to Academic & Career Excellence, is a student support services program funded by a TRIO grant from the U.S. Department of…
TikTok faces ban in the U.S.
On Tuesday April 23 the U.S. Senate approved a bill that would ban TikTok. The United States House of Representatives already passed a bill April 20, that would give “TikTok’s Chinese owner ByteDance about six months to divest the U.S assets of the short video-app, or face a ban”. The…
