NCC: NCC Chronicle

The NCC Chronicle has provided a voice for students and a medium to capture North Central College’s history through coverage of campus events and news, as well as national and international events such as World War II, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the two Gulf Wars. Early issues of the NCC Chronicle, a monthly publication, are very similar to a literary journal and contain mostly essays, editorials, and poetry contributed by faculty members and students with very little campus news. By 1915, the NCC Chronicle becomes much more a standard newspaper in both content and physical appearance until 1966, when the NCC Chronicle switches to a smaller news magazine format. From 1969-2013, the NCC Chronicle is a standard newspaper format. In 2014, the NCC Chronicle, has a magazine look to it. Starting in 2015, it was published monthly. In 2018 and 2018, it was published three times a year. Starting in 2020, the NCC Chronicle was published twice a year. The inconsistency in content, volume numbering, physical appearance, and publication schedule reflects the constantly changing staff, editors, and advisors as well as financial issues. The collection is particularly sparse in coverage of the 1980s, likely due to an irregular publication schedule.