{"id":29620,"date":"2015-08-31T18:48:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom2\/2015\/08\/31\/north-andover-resident-and-necc-nursing-student-earns-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:18:20","slug":"north-andover-resident-and-necc-nursing-student-earns-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/08\/31\/north-andover-resident-and-necc-nursing-student-earns-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"North Andover Resident and NECC Nursing Student Earns Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11987\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/08\/Erin-Ring-newsroom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11987\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11987\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/media-old\/2015\/08\/Erin-Ring-newsroom-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"Erin Ring returned to Northern Essex to finish what she started 20 years ago.\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11987\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erin Ring returned to Northern Essex to finish what she started 20 years ago.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nearly 20 years ago, when Erin Ring left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/\">Northern Essex Community College\u2019s <\/a>nursing program due to health issues, she promised herself that one day she would return. Her \u201cone day\u201d starts in September when she begins the nursing program funded in part by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/alumnifriends\/giving\/women-of-necc\/\">Women of NECC<\/a> Scholarship.<\/p>\n<p>The North Andover resident is one of 190 NECC students awarded 222 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/getting-started\/financial-aid\/types\/scholarships\/necc-scholarship-opportunities\/\">scholarships<\/a> totaling more than $200,000 for the 2015\/2016 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without the help of the Women of NECC scholarship, the financial burden of attending college would be too great to bear,\u201d Ring said. \u201cI am truly grateful for the opportunity I am receiving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A 1993 graduate of Andover High School, Ring enrolled at NECC, completed all the prerequisite nursing courses and was accepted into the competitive nursing program. When she left the program, no one was more disappointed than Ring herself.\u00a0 She vowed she would return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.necc.mass.edu\/academics\/courses-programs\/areas\/health\/nursing\/\">associate degree nursing program.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the years passed, Ring, a single parent, supported her little family surviving from one paycheck to the next.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had been so long since I had been in school,\u201d she said. \u201cI had no plan. I just knew the path I was on wasn\u2019t ideal for my family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When her oldest child turned 20, Ring encouraged her to enroll at NECC. She accompanied her daughter to the admissions office and while she was there, inquired about her own college credits. Ring was delighted to learn she would only need to retake her science classes to reapply to the nursing program.<\/p>\n<p>So Ring, despite her \u201chuge fear of failure\u201d got to work and enrolled in a math course and science course.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hadn\u2019t been a student in 20 years. I didn\u2019t know if I was capable of adapting to new technology,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was she capable. She was a natural. Once Ring started enrolling in classes, she didn\u2019t stop. At times, she and her daughter were enrolled in the same classes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe told me I inspired her and that she never would have succeeded at Northern Essex if I hadn\u2019t pushed her to enroll,\u201d she said. \u201cBut that cuts both ways. I never would have picked up the phone to check on my college credits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With her prerequisites once again completed, Ring along with her 3.5 GPA, has her NECC nursing uniform ironed and is prepped to begin.<\/p>\n<p>Getting this far hasn\u2019t been easy. There was her eight-year-old, 10-month old, and her fianc\u00e9e to consider with every decision. But the family understands her education is all for the greater good.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately Ring believes she may gravitate toward hospice nursing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my mom was dying, I witnessed the nurses caring for her and the comfort they brought to her and the entire family,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t remember the doctors who cared for her, but I remember every nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 20 years ago, when Erin Ring left Northern Essex Community College\u2019s nursing program due to health issues, she promised herself that one day she would return. 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