{"id":23389,"date":"2022-02-01T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2022\/02\/01\/college-receives-maximum-10-year-re-accreditation\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T19:30:32","slug":"college-receives-maximum-10-year-re-accreditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2022\/02\/01\/college-receives-maximum-10-year-re-accreditation\/","title":{"rendered":"College Receives Maximum 10-Year Re-Accreditation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/HaverhillView.jpg\"><\/a>Haverhill and Lawrence, MA (February 1, 2022)\u00a0 Northern Essex Community recently received good news from the New England Commission of Higher Education (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neche.org\">NECHE<\/a>): the college\u2019s accreditation will be continued for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/Haverhill-Campus-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-23164 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/02\/Haverhill-Campus-2.jpg\" alt=\"aerial view of the haverhill campus with changing fall leaves\" width=\"308\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The intensive re-accreditation process included a comprehensive self-study, involving nearly everyone at the college. A team from NECHE conducted a virtual site visit at NECC in April. They spent four days speaking with faculty, students and staff, and reviewing data to compile their final evaluation report. The commission reviewed the findings and chose to accept the report, issued a full ten-year accreditation, and requested a standard five-year interim report in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent email to the NECC community, President Lane Glenn wrote \u201cThis is the best outcome possible for a ten-year accreditation process, and it is due to the outstanding work of our NECHE Self-Study Leadership Team and everyone else who contributed to this important process since we began our preparations in 2018.\u201d You can read more about the accreditation process <a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/discover\/consumer-information\/accreditation\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Essex Community College has campuses in both Haverhill and Lawrence. It offers\u00a0approximately\u00a060\u00a0associate degree and certificate programs as well as hundreds of noncredit courses designed for personal enrichment and career growth.\u00a0 Each year,\u00a06,000\u00a0students are enrolled in credit associate degree and certificate programs on the Haverhill and Lawrence campuses; and\u00a0another 2,000\u00a0take noncredit workforce development and community education classes on campus, and at businesses and community sites across the Merrimack Valley.\u00a0 For more information, visit the website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\">necc.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call 978-556-3700.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news from the New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE): the college\u2019s accreditation will be continued for the next 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":25214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,16],"tags":[36,455],"class_list":["post-23389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-press-releases","tag-accreditation","tag-neche"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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