Honors Northeast, the honors program of Northeast Texas Community College announces a call for poems and images that can accent or enliven our sense of the surroundings, people, the culture, and/or the history of Northeast Texas. Adult poetry winners will take home $100 and $50 for first and second place...
Three NTCC students, all involved in this summer’s honors film project, witnessed Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in an afternoon production on 24 July. They traveled to the annual Texas Shakespeare Festival in Kilgore. Donors of Honors Northeast and of the college, Jerald and Mary Lou Mowery made the excursion possible. The students drove from NTCC and back with Dr. Andrew Yox, honors director...
For their performance in the spring of 2025 in honors at NTCC in relation to their peers, two Presidential Scholars won $100 checks. Sophomore Mary Faith Wilson, the college’s Gladys Winkle Scholar, came out ahead among the sophomores, scoring the highest among the two-year cohort in the McGraw Hill Poster contest, and concluding with a perfect GPA...
Stephanie Hernandez’s state Caldwell-Award winning essay on Tejano murals may not only result in a publication. The NTCC Presidential Scholar now awaiting her sophomore year may see her work one day as a cinematic premiere. This past May, four upcoming scholars of Honors Northeast—Bree Fite, Emma Mendoza, Litzy Flores, and Adam Richards, and Honors Director, Dr. Andrew Yox, journeyed to San Antonio...
Vanessajane Bayne, a chemical and environmental engineering student from Northeast Texas Community College, is one of 55 students selected as 2025 Udall Scholars and will receive a $7,000 scholarship. The Morris K. Udall and Stewart L. Udall Foundation selects recipients of this highly competitive scholarship on the basis of commitment to careers in the environment, leadership potential, record of public service, and academic achievement. Scholars attend a required multi-day Scholar Orientation experience...
Dr. John Zubizarreta, a recently retired expert in honor education, once summarized what he believed was the most important insight of his career. “Conscientious mentoring” he said, was the “key to transformative experiences in education.” This year’s 17th annual McGraw Hill Poster Contest at the Whatley Foyer on 9 May 2025 again attested to the importance of such academic counseling. All of the fifteen student participants this year received extensive one-on-one professionalization time or correspondence with faculty. In general, those who performed better, received even more, and most importantly, were willing to make the time to receive more mentoring...
Three NTCC history students emerged on top in the 2025 Bonnie Spencer competition, for the best student essays in history at NTCC, outside of the honors seminars. Each will earn a $50 award. This year, a generous donation to honors by former NTCC Presidential Scholar, Jessica Velazquez, helped round off the funding for this contest, as well as covering another award. Essays could have been entered from any history course taken at the college during the 2024-2025 school year, on campus or online...
As in 2023 and 2024, NTCC scholars performed admirably in the Red River Symposium, hosted again by Texas A&M Texarkana, 20 May 2025. It was the third poster and oral-presentation conference chaired by the founding dean of the honors college at Texarkana, Dr. Craig Nakashian. There were four categories of presenters, and NTCC scholars won $100-first-place-awards in three. Gracie Gray...
Estefani Garcia was recently named the winner of the 2025 Elizabeth Chitsey Award, granted each year to the student of Honors Northeast who most exceeded expectations during their first year at NTCC. The award comes with a $200 check. The 2024 graduate of Mount Pleasant High School...
