NCC is a community of learners dedicated to preparing students to be informed, involved, principled and productive citizens and leaders over a lifetime. A comprehensive liberal arts college affiliated, NCC fulfills its mission by recognizing the individual needs of students at different stages of life and from different backgrounds - students who bring diverse expectations to the educational process - with programs responsive to those needs while ensuring that all students experience in common: One faculty committed to teaching in small classes, Educational programs rooted in the liberal arts, and a commitment, both inside and outside the classroom, to teaching leadership, ethics and values.