NECC employees helping students cut costs - Mike LaBella, Eagle Tribune

A statewide initiative, designed by two Northern Essex Community College professionals that has saved 9,000 college students at 14 Massachusetts community colleges more than $1.2 million just this academic year, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious 2018 Bellwether Award. The Massachusetts Community Colleges Go Open project was launched in 2016 by NECC’s Jody Carson, an early childhood education professor, and Susan (Behan) Tashjian, an instructional designer in the Center for Instructional Technology, to address the increasing costs of college textbooks. http://www.eagletribune.com/news/haverhill/necc-employees-helping-students-cut-costs/article_cb2df47b-5bce-50a4-97f4-971c39748a81.html