Northern Essex Community College
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Northern Essex Community College (also known as NECC or Necco) is a community college with campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence, Massachusetts. In 2004, it had a total enrollment of over 6,000 students. Many Northern Essex students go on to pursue Bachelor's degrees at regional four-year institutions.
- NECC also has a number of grant-funded non-academic programs, including English as a Second Language (ESL) classes funded in part by the Massachusetts Department of Education.
- NECC is home to Parnassus, the nationally recognized award-winning literary arts magazine. Parnassus is a student-run and published literary magazine that is published yearly and which features student work in the form of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, art, and photography. Most recently, Parnassus was the winner of the 2009 Community College Humanities Association's award for First Place in the Eastern Division [1], and was announced as a finalist for the prestigious Associated Collegiate Press 2009 Pacemaker award. [2] Parnassus was a national award winner in 2008 as well, capturing Second Place in the Eastern Division of the CCHA awards, as well as the winner of the ASPA's 2008 first place with merit for literary magazines, along with best gallery awards [3]. See link below for more information about Parnassus.
In 1998 The Northern Essex Knights baseball team were runners up in the Community College State Championships. The team consisted of several players from some great High School programs. Reading Memorial High School had 4 of their graduated players on the team. All of those players were part of Reading High School's Baseball State Championship team from 1996. They were Dan Farnham, Jim Gray, Jeremy Purrington, and Joe Sabia.
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Coordinates: 42°47′45.55″N 71°2′51.50″W / 42.7959861°N 71.047639°W
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