Student Life
Formal qualities of student life at NCCI include a "student family", proactive counseling programme, and group spiritual observances. "Student families" are annualized groupings of students of different ages, races, nationalities, religions, talents and abilities who are carefully grouped in a way such that strengths and weaknesses are balanced out by all the members. The families and their faculty sponsors work together to plan and participate in service projects, hold social and family unity activities and consult together on school-related issues. In the counseling programme students learn how to resolve conflicts through effective communication making decisions that are compatible with spiritual and personal values. Effort is also made educate students about the effects of drug and alcohol addictions, safe dating practices, and goal setting. The spiritual life at NCCI is shared by staff and student which observe religious and cultural celebrations from around the world. Service projects are actively formulated with a strong international, but also local, outlook. Students have participated in community service projects in the following countries:
- Australia
- Bolivia
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Congo
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Greece
- Guyana
- Honduras
- India
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Mexico
- Papua New Guinea
- Poland
- Ukraine
- Zimbabwe
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