Northern Oklahoma College (NOC) is a community college located in Tonkawa, Oklahoma, with additional campuses located in Enid, Oklahoma and Stillwater, Oklahoma. Student enrollment is approximately 2,700. Northern Oklahoma College was founded on March 1, 1901 by James Wilkin via passage of an appropriation bill by Oklahoma's sixth Territorial Legislature. NOC, then called University Preparatory School at Tonkawa, prepared high school students to enter the University of Oklahoma. Classes began on September 8, 1902 with a beginning enrollment of 217 students and 7 faculty. World War I caused a school closure from 1917 to September 2, 1919. In 1921, the school added a college curriculum, and continued to instruct high school students until 1951. The North Central Association of Colleges and Universities accredited the school in 1948, and in 1965 the school was renamed Northern Oklahoma College. By a unanimous vote during the February 17, 2011 Board of Regents meeting The Northern Oklahoma Board of Regents announced that Dr. Cheryl Evans has been selected as the next NOC president. Her selection is a historic one for our 109 year-old institution, given that Dr.