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 a little campus news. By 1900 there is a regular column for athletics and music and by 1907 regular columns for the YMCA and YWCA. 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. Often published weekly. For the 2013-2014 academic year, the NCC Chronicle, was published twice a month. Starting with the 2014-2015 academic year, it was published monthly. Staring with the 2017-2018 academic year, 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.

Some donated issues from 1934-1936 contained a syndicated section titled “Collegiate Digest.” It is noted as “national collegiate news in picture and paragraph.”

Starting with the 2013-2014 academic year, the Chronicle staff regularly published news articles on their website NCC Linked, as well.