North Central College Chronicle

All available issues of the NCC Chronicle have been digitized and indexed, and are available on line at http://edu.arcasearch.com/us/nc.

Chronological

North Central College's student newspaper, the College Chronicle, was first published in 1873. It has had many name changes since, but continues today as the North Central Chronicle.

This series is incomplete and contains a mix of both bound and unbound NCC Chronicles, often with overlapping dates. The container list is divided into bound and unbound and then chronological, rather than a strict chronological, due to the overlapping dates. The Archives maintains unbound issues when possible, but, between 1920 and 1979, the folders of unbound issues are very incomplete. A list of each issue was created in March 2007 and is available in the Archives Reference Room.

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 to the present, the NCC Chronicle is a standard newspaper format. 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.