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Noemi Custodia-Lora, executive director of Lawrence campus and community relations, NECC; Dr. Victor Hugo de Lancer, chancellor, ITSC, and Lane Glenn, president, NECC sign an agreement between the two colleges.<\/p><\/div>\n

Only 11 percent of Lawrence residents have bachelor\u2019s degrees which is significantly lower than the Massachusetts average of 39 percent.<\/p>\n

Lane Glenn, president of Northern Essex Community College<\/a>, with campuses in Haverhill and Lawrence, MA, would like to help increase those percentages and a recent trip to the Dominican Republic was intended to do just that.<\/p>\n

According to Glenn, 60 percent of the students studying at NECC\u2019s Lawrence Campus are Hispanic, largely with roots in the Dominican Republic, and many enroll at the college with credits from schools there.\u00a0 \u201cWe want to make it easier for them to transfer those credits to Northern Essex so they can earn a certificate or degree more quickly and go on to secure better paying jobs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Glenn, along with Noemi Custodia-Lora, executive director of NECC\u2019s Lawrence Campus, Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera, and State Representative Marcos Devers recently returned from a five-day trip to the Dominican Republic, where they met with educational leaders from two and four-year colleges.\u00a0 They were hosted by the Universidad Aut\u00f3noma de Santo Domingo<\/a> (UASD), the public university system of the Dominican Republic, which Northern Essex signed a formal agreement<\/a> with in August in Lawrence.\u00a0 Representative Devers graduated from UASD with a civil engineering degree in 1978.<\/p>\n

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Clara Benedito, director of cooperation and international relations, USAD; MA State Representative Marcos Devers, a graduate of USAD; Dr. Rafael Sanchez Cardenas, vice-minister of inter-institutional and international relations, office minister of higher education, science and technology; Lane Glenn, president, NECC; Lawrence Mayor Dan Rivera; Noemi Custodia-Lora, executive director Lawrence Campus and community relations, NECC: and Cheryl Goodwin, senior executive assistant to the president, NECC.<\/p><\/div>\n

A highlight of the visit was the signing of a new agreement with Instituto T\u00e9cnico Superior Comunitario<\/a>, the Dominican Republic\u2019s first public two-year college, which began offering courses in January 2013.<\/p>\n

The agreement will allow for the transfer of credits and also provide opportunities for faculty, staff, and student exchanges.\u00a0 Other ideas that were discussed included online delivery of Northern Essex courses to students in the Dominican Republic and resources for local residents who need help validating their educational credentials from the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n

Colleges in the Dominican Republic are especially interested in Northern Essex\u2019s health care programs, which are taught in Lawrence.\u00a0 Eighteen hundred students are enrolled in one of the college\u2019s 25 associate degrees or certificates leading to careers in health care.\u00a0 Last November, Regis, a leading Catholic University, announced that they were opening a new satellite campus on Northern Essex\u2019s Lawrence Campus, offering bachelor degree completion programs in nursing, public health, and health sciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re creating an educational ladder in Lawrence that will give Lawrence residents access to good paying careers,\u201d said Glenn.\u00a0 \u201cThe more quickly we can get people educated, the better our local economy will be.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on the newly signed agreements, contact Dr. Noemi Custodia-Lora, ncustodialora@necc.mass.edu<\/a> or 978 738-7401.<\/p>\n

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